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anti-zionism != anti-semitism learn your definition
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Google to buy Wiz for $32B
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#412This deal isn't about security, it's about data. Google already have one of the best security teams in the industry - Project Zero [0]. They don't need Wiz's "enterprise" expertise for security. This deal is about DATA. Wiz, as a cybersecurity vendor, have full remote access to their customers cloud compute storage (EC2 EBS volumes, etc) in the name of "security scanning" - this is actually part of their unique selli…
Google has the best security. But it is hard to market real security (as oposed to snake-oil), so maybe this acquisition will help.
> Google has the best security.
Care to elaborate?
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If you'd be so kind for those of us that haven't touched cloud in 5/10 years, what is Wiz? from reading the google announcement: solving the supply chain hybrid cloud security issues? I could google I know but you seem to know what you are talking about, so if you'd be so kind. :)
When you use a cloud provider to setup a VM, what policies do you apply to it in order to ensure it’s secure? Wiz and other tools in the same space tell you and tracks compliance across your fleet. Idk if wiz does this, but their competitors have “compliance packs” which are preset compliance patterns, IE hipaa, finra, etc. That way you click a button and it tells you every change you need to make to be compliant Edi…
But...don't these companies already have cloud security engineers on their payrolls?
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Re: Google to buy Wiz for $32B
#414This seems like a silly and ridiculous acquisition. Surely for $32 billion almost any security technology could be replicated? You could hire several thousand best in class engineers and build whatever Wiz has in house… buying this almost makes it seem like Google has no idea how to build new innovative products, which I guess a lot of people already think. For Instagram and WhatsApp it was the user base and growth t…
For $32B Google are buying Wiz's brand, existing customers and their pipeline of customers, along with the technology.
Wiz has no brand, no one knows who they are.
Revenue from Wiz's customers will not make back $32 billion dollars even in 30 years.
Wiz's technology is irrelevant. I think Google already scans for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. And can build similar for low millions of dollars.
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The Mossad is a security service of the nation of Israel, which, for all intents and purposes, is a nation designed to house and protect Jews. And Judaism is a religion. So yes, a connection exists.
Many Jews do not practice Judaism. Being Jewish is an ethnicity. Source: am Jewish, not religeous.
Judaism is not only religion in a sense that you go to synagogue to pray. Being a jew is not only about religion but also about traditions, e.g., celebrating jewish holidays, teaching your kids about history of your people, etc.
If you do nothing jewish, then I would argue that you are not jewish in a cultural sense. You still would be a jew from a religious point of view (if your mom is jewish), but if you do nothing jewish, then you are not jewish.
I guess what I am trying to say is being jewish is not ethnicity only, or religion only, it's both. For example, converts are considered jews despite their non-jewish ethnicity.
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Of course the founder is a normal civilian. Israel has mandatory conscription so you'd expect any normal civilian to also have served in the IDF at some point. It might sound weird to people from the US and many other western nations. Most people there aren't concerned with serving in the military - they either leave it to working class folks to serve, or they don't really have any neighboring enemies. The Israelis a…
Even if we took mandatory service as an excuse to serve for an occupation army, the guy overstayed his mandatory service, he chose to continue working in that intelligence unit.
Why wouldn't he make that choice?
I don't know where you live, but he lives in a country that's surrounded by theocratic dictatorships, failed states, and Islamist terrorists who livestream murders and kidnappings.
His choice seems perfectly rational to me.
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I think parent was saying that if someone has a problem with Wiz being ex 8200, they would have problems buying cybersecurity solutions in general because the more established companies founders with foreign non-allies background.
That is clearly a false equivalence though. Being born in a country is qualitatively different to working in a military unit requiring security clearance.
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> The question is are you ever allowed to quit Unit 8200? Do you have any evidence to show that no one ever quits 8200?
Yes. Until you are 40 ...Read and hear for yourself:
https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/28/
"Now Avishai has left 8200 and went off to co-found Wix, the website building tool. It’s crazy to think that the co-founder of Wix is an expert hacker, someone who’s broken into multiple countries and conducted massive amounts of espionage."
"Once you get out of 8200 you’re then a reserve and have to spend up to three weeks a year going back to 8200, refreshing your skills all the way until you’re forty"
"There’s also a yearly reunion where you leave your family and spend a week with your fellow soldiers you served with. Every year they do that. Keep in mind, all this is happening in a place not even as big as New Jersey with roughly the same population. Look at how dedicated they are to keeping these connections with one another. This has powerful results. Everyone knows everyone."
"Imagine if one 8200 member goes off to work at Google to help "develop the Chrome browser and then goes back to 8200 as part of their yearly duty and while there, they see a soldier building exploits for the Chrome browser. What do they do? Do they take the exploits from 8200 and patch it in Chrome or do they help their fellow soldier by sharing the source code?"
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> Israel isn’t a democracy anymore than the US is This thread is over.
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The constitution of a nation and its practices are separate axes. Many US states practiced the functional equivalent of apartheid until the 1960s, but the USA was still a democracy nevertheless.
(This is not intended to reflect any opinion I may have about Israel's specific practices.)
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These companies are the closest you can get to a legal mafia, they are effectively charging companies around the world to keep them "safe". In other words, a job that is traditionally considered to be a basic service of the government is now being privatized by people that nobody knows if we can really trust.
There are other CNAPP solutions. If you do an evaluation you will see why WIZ comes out on top.
What are some others?