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It’s Official: Wiz Joins Google

Alex3917: Not to be confused with Google’s existing product called Wiz.

Arainach: I'd argue an internal framework isn't a "product", but the confusion is real.

jsheard: Or the Wiz IOT company, which seems like something Google would buy to assimilate into Nest, but they didn't.

PunchTornado: I don't understand Google's play here. Does it want Wiz to be a unique offer for GCP customers? or they will keep it cloud agnostic?

raw_anon_1111: Thats the entire purpose, the reality is that large corporations are increasingly “multi cloud” and Google wants to have an offering for them and for companies that are on AWS and Azure to be able to move some of their workloads to GCP.AWS and GCP also made a joint announcement about multi cloud networking for a similar reasonhttps://aws.amazon.com/blogs/networking-and-content-delivery...

tw04: >or they will keep it cloud agnostic?They grossly overpaid if they aren't keeping it cloud agnostic. It's impressive software, but if it's only compatible with GCP it will not survive in this space.

newsclues: Make it easy to use google cloud and plug into google ai

XCSme: Not related to my https://uxwizz.com xD

jtmetcalfe: I thought it was about home automation at first https://www.wizconnected.com/

mkehrt: Same--I was worried my lightbulbs might be deprecated!

kolanos: Didn't this happen a year ago? [0] Or did this deal just take a year?[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398518

seanieb: Congrats to to the Wiz team. Wiz is amazing. But, ugh, joining Google will result in less competition and all that entails. Not great for customers.It's a pity going public isn't worth it anymore.

cmrdporcupine: If you think Google is capable of making a singular coherent decision on a topic like this, you're dreaming. There's likely multiple competing visions.That said: the goal with Google M&A remains the same as always. Take competition off the board. I don't know this company or how they compete with Google, but 80% chance that's the play.They are culturally incapable of merging other people's tech into their own stack and have both the tendency to rewrite everything from scratch on their own bespoke technologies and also internal engineering teams that will bristle at having a foreign body invade their cathedral.You could say it would be talent acquisition but most everyone who comes from a startup walks as soon as their golden handcuffs loosen and they can find something else to do. Going from startup to Google is usually torturous.Been through this 15 years ago. I don't think anything has changed.

aberoham: I'm really hoping this means GCP Security Command Center quickly gets subsumed by Wiz

htrp: you mean there will now be three products instead of twoGoogle Security Center Wiz Google Agentic Wiz Security

pwr22: Or the GP2X Wiz handheld (which will be forever what comes to mind first for me )https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X_Wiz

whobre: For a second I thought it was Woz who was joining Google…

giancarlostoro: Maybe someone typod in an email "I want you to buy woz" the i and o are next to each other on the keyboard. ;)

pbiggar: As I mentioned at the time, the Wiz acquisition is the largest transfer of Israeli intelligence operatives into Big Tech in history.Here's my full thread on it: https://x.com/paulbiggar/status/1902329587050148068

dlev_pika: > will result in less competitionThe system working as intended.“Competition is for losers” - Peter Thiel

redbell: Wiz joins Waze & Waymo.. there's something suspicious with the letter W here :)

0_____0: Wiz and Waze are both Israeli companies. Not that suspicious, I think it probably just sounds better in Hebrew.

sokz: Wix too. Very interesting that founders of Waze and Wix have Unit 8200 pedigree and Wiz co-founder was part of an elite recruitment program in the IDF. On account of the mandatory draft, it was bound to happen but those three companies have very similar names as well.

jcims: 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.

torginus: 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.

alephnerd: Nope. Darktrace is crap verging on fraud. Wiz actually solves tangible CSPM and runtime issues.

darth_aardvark: Unlikely, since modern Hebrew doesn't have a letter for "w".

bonesss: Is it possible the foreignness makes ‘W’ appealing as it signals cool modern tech alignment or something?Like how ‘X’ attracts marketing and typographic knuckle-draggers in English, or how all our AI companies have butthole logos for reasons that only make sense if you understand the underlying companies and culture.

weatherlite: Link doesn't work

pbiggar: It seems to be working for me.

alephnerd: Everyone in Israel who is entrepreneurial tries to self-select into 8200 - it's the equivalent of American high schoolers who want to enter VC and tech entrepreneurship targeting CS@Stanford.In Israel, the university matters less than the unit you served. For example, if you want to become a senior politician, you join Sayeret Matkal and if you want to become an academic you end up in Talpiot.8200s success is largely due to a couple early exits by 8200 alums (Gili Raanan, Nir Zuk, Shlomo Kramer) who were biased in recruiting from their unit. 8200 alums aren't better or worse than other Israelis - they just have a better network.And Israel has multiple SIGINT and offensive/defensive cybersecurity units, all of whom created similar networks as well.

sokz: Network effects wasn't what I considered although I should have.

tptacek: This is the announcement of the completion of an acquisition that began a year ago.

d4mi3n: Probably a diversification play and a play to see out bigger contracts. If you've worked in the FEDRamp space, you may be aware that Wiz (last a checked, a year or so ago) is one of the few and possibly ownly player certified to operate in FedRAMP Medium/High deployments operating with the technology it does (eBPF instrumentation).

scottyah: Google has really been expanding into DoD lately. I think they're realizing it's a large part of why AWS is so big and Azure is still alive.

StartupsWala: The interesting part is that Wiz built its success largely on being cloud-agnostic. If Google keeps it that way, it becomes a strategic window into AWS and Azure workloads.If they don’t, they risk destroying the very advantage that made Wiz valuable in the first place.

breppp: > goal with Google M&A remains the same as always. Take competition off the board. I don't know this company or how they compete with Google, but 80% chance that's the playI don't think that's true here (what is the competing google product exactly?) or generally in cloud acquisitions, that generally buy into their platform missing features

jtmetcalfe: I thought so too at first, which would make sense as Nest does everything except lighting...

perks_12: Can you take your racist slop elsewhere? This community is about tech.

vvpan: No reactions beside: monopolies are bad for innovation and why we cannot have nice things. You might hear some people say "but these big companies innovate". They were mostly done innovating two decades ago, now they just snuff out innovation and acquisition is one of their main tools.

tipiirai: Thiel is an idiot