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Google to buy Wiz for $32B

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Re: Google to buy Wiz for $32B

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Post by debarshri »

detourdog wrote: post #366
czk wrote: post #256

> Wiz has raised a total of $1.9 billion from a combination of venture capital funds and private investors > Wiz agreed to acquire Tel Aviv-based Raftt, a cloud-based developer collaboration platform, for $50 million in December 2023. In April 2024, the company acquired cloud detection and response startup, Gem Security, for around $350 million > Wiz was founded in January 2020 by Assaf Rappaport, Yinon Costica, Roy…

I never heard of them until they were purchased for $32 billion.

Thats the kind of a company everyone wants to build in enterprise security.

Incognito unicorns.

There are many companies like these in security space. Another company I can think of is Rubrik. All these large security companies under the radar success.

Re: Google to buy Wiz for $32B

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Post by cft »

In the meantime, the products that people used to use are decaying. Just today I found out that clicking on the departure date, and viewing the round-trip prices, then changing the departure date is broken in Google Flights. When Pichai leaves, it will be too late.

Re: Google to buy Wiz for $32B

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Post by weatherlite »

tdeck wrote: post #402
weatherlite wrote: post #359

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know if it's true but I do know for sure America has killed at least 100x more civilians than Israel has in wars that were in no way needed or existential (Vietnam, Iraq x2) and yet no one on his right mind would demonize ordinary Americans and imply they are all bloodthirsty Nazis to be persecuted everywhere they step on earth.

> I don't know if it's true There are polls about this that you could easily look up. Is your position that if most Israelis affirmatively support atrocities like this, the rest of the world should just pretend like we never saw that? > America has killed at least 100x more civilians than Israel has These aren't mutually exclusive. Israel is one of America's proxies. I'd support the international community putting sa…

> Is your position that if most Israelis affirmatively support atrocities like this, the rest of the world should just pretend like we never saw that?

If the world should generalize over entire populations groups according to some poll then it should at least be consistent and not do it only to Israelis. If I find a poll that shows most Palestinians support October 7th would you immediately denounce every Gazan you talk to? It's also quite obvious many Gazans agreed not only with October 7th but also with the subsequent treatment of the Israeli hostages (which is a type of long lasting torture). Most of these hostages were/are simply kidnapped civilians, the ones you talk about in Sdei Teiman were most likely Hamas fighters connected to extreme cases of violence and terrorism. So there's more nuance here than you make it out to be. I personally think if anyone sexually abused them they should be thrown in jail but I can see why many Israelis have their hearts filled with hatred toward Hamas fighters. It's the job of the state to maintain rule of law.

Re: Google to buy Wiz for $32B

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Post by [deleted] »

marcus0x62 wrote: post #319
coliveira wrote: post #266

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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.

This is an absurd take. There’s nothing stopping anyone from building their own cloud security tools (many have), and unlike the Mafia, Wiz isn’t threatening anyone who doesn’t buy their service. I’m also not aware of any government agency providing any reasonable analog to what these tools provide in the physical world.

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Re: Google to buy Wiz for $32B

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Post by [deleted] »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #440
gnfargbl wrote: post #435

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I can't find accurate statistics, but I question your use of https://truthout.org/articles/more-israelis-are-refusing-dep... as an unbiased source. If you are going to quote an article with that title, you could at least refrain from editorialising: > Although military service is often described as a national duty in Israel, conscription is in fact far from universal. As little as 50 percent of Israeli citizens actua…

I've added the source per your request. You're welcome to share a more accurate and less biased statistic, though you have none

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Re: Google to buy Wiz for $32B

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Post by shilgapira »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #424
gnfargbl wrote: post #421

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Military service is compulsory in Israel, so being a former member of 8200 isn't exactly unusual. Given the choice between spending two or three years as deployed infantry, or writing code in an air-conditioned office, I suspect a few of us here would choose the latter.

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Arab-Israelis are around 20% of the population and they're not required to enlist. Some religious groups, religious women specifically, are also not required to enlist.

There are exemptions for people with disabilities, health issues with risk factors, extreme poverty, problematic family situations, teen parents, etc, as you would expect there to be in any western democracy.

For any other healthy citizen that's not exempt by law - males in particular - military service is as compulsory as paying taxes.

> It is a choice

I'll never understand why people who aren't Israelis, don't live in Israel, can't read or speak Hebrew, and probably have never even bothered to talk to an Israeli, for some bizarre reason feel qualified to talk so authoritatively about a place half way around the globe that they've never been to.

EDIT Editing your post like this to hide how wrong you were after the fact is misleading, but by now we've seen that this is typical behavior for people in your ideological camp.

Re: Google to buy Wiz for $32B

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Post by bitlad »

There is a not-so well known fact about Wiz. Wiz is backed by Cyberstart. They are notorious for running a pay to use thing for CISOs. TLDR; there is a round about way the CISOs get paid for using tools backed by them. Therefore the startups backed by them appears to be fast growing.

[1] https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/blogs/cyberstarts- program-sparks-debate-over-ethical-boundaries-p-3763

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2024/10/28/this-vc-b...

Re: Google to buy Wiz for $32B

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Post by 1oooqooq »

debarshri wrote: post #441
detourdog wrote: post #366

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never heard of them until they were purchased for $32 billion.

Thats the kind of a company everyone wants to build in enterprise security. Incognito unicorns. There are many companies like these in security space. Another company I can think of is Rubrik. All these large security companies under the radar success.

most people here are also in security and still haven't heard.

It's more likely backroom kickbacks (and/or mossad) than invisible unicorn.

Re: Google to buy Wiz for $32B

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Post by amrocha »

otterley wrote: post #437
amrocha wrote: post #429

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I think the point is that the Israeli government is akin to a terrorist organization

I'm well aware of what the commenter was trying to suggest, and was not going to dignify it. Every time a story involves Israel somehow--even if it's about the success of a business based there--it turns into a debate about Israel itself. It's exhausting and stupid.

If ex NSA agents made a cyber security company and Baidu acquired it I think that would be relevant.
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