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Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Wiz customer here, when fully implemented it provides an incredibly detailed and comprehensive view of your infrastructure. I'm curious how much of that information is going to pass between Wiz and Google Cloud product/sales. It's effectively x-ray vision into some huge workloads running on their competitors.

Is this like Darktrace? Apparently the cybersec bigwigs at our company love it, but for me I have to write a detailed explaination why another 'incident report' the clueless cybersecurity guys keep bothering me with is actually nonsense.

As a cybersecurity guy...

There are a lot of cybersecurity people that really know nothing about actual security and just rely on what their tools tell them. And products like Wiz love to "prove" their value by raising tons of red flags.

This is especially true for vulnerability management, which is basically Boy-Who-Cried-Wolf as a Service. The entire CVE ecosystem used to be great, but now it's turned into resume-driven-development where people exaggerate the severity of a vulnerability in order to have a CVSS 9.8 on their resume.

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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This is well known in cybersecurity circles. I mentioned here[1] a couple years back that I know CISOs who've had to clean up big messes because their predecessor was on the Cyberstarts payroll, but on the bright side I also know a couple of those predecessors who were fired for it. Cyberstarts is the most blatant offender, but to be fair, VC has turned into the next rung on the career ladder for CIOs/CISOs, whose ro…

About 20 years ago I quite liked the idea of becoming a CISO - the CIO I worked for at the time talked me out of it - saying that the role would largely involve being ignored then, when something inevitably did go wrong, you'd get sacked.

The board of a Fortune 1000 financial services company just fired the CISO and Deputy CISO because they did too good a job cataloging all of the risk in their infrastructure. Now that it's documented and defensibly quantified, the company is somewhat obliged to do something about it, and the board was not thrilled.

It can be a rough gig.

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Seems to be a coincidence - the Hebrew word comes from the Bible (old testament), and means "the feeding, and generally providing of needs". The English word comes from "calculus", meaning, apparently, pebble, because original counting was done with pebbles. (I had to look both up. Thanks for asking)

How can a word come from the Bible? It must have existed before the Bible in order to have a meaning inside of it. Or did you mean to write it came from Aramaic?

I mean that it already appears in the Bible, in old Hebrew (which is close to, but isn’t exactly Aramaic), with the meaning “to feed and provide” - and I did not find any documentation about how it formed (or came into) Hebrew.

Which means of course m, that it was already in use before the Bible was canonicalized.

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Seems to be a coincidence - the Hebrew word comes from the Bible (old testament), and means "the feeding, and generally providing of needs". The English word comes from "calculus", meaning, apparently, pebble, because original counting was done with pebbles. (I had to look both up. Thanks for asking)

How can a word come from the Bible? It must have existed before the Bible in order to have a meaning inside of it. Or did you mean to write it came from Aramaic?

Hebrew is a reconstructed language. Whilst some roots will predate the Torah, most won't.

Several words, like the infamous "shibboleth" won't be inherited, or their meanings may wildly differ.

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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I mean, good on the cofunders, they will never see that much money again in their lives.

But companies who uses Wiz.io know that Wiz is dead as of now. Google will merge it into its cloud platform and slowly stop supporting AWS, Azure.

Things never change, only company's name change.

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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theres a famous painting about this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son

That, but in Corporate Memphis tech-company art style https://jemima.design.blog/2021/02/08/generic-tech-company-a...

It’s beautiful
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