Almost any infosec professional whose company uses an IaaS provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc) has heard of them. They are probably the most notable tool for assessing your "Cloud Security Posture". It basically looks at your cloud configuration and alerts you for security issues caused by mis/sub-optimal configurations. It also identifies vulnerabilities, software updates, permissions issues, etc.
I'm sad they're being acquired, especially by a FAANG company. This constant consolidation is bad for IT (and the economy in general). I am happy for the employees holding shares though!
[narrator]: Excellent, until now! Soon, their beloved cloud infra security scanner will to be sucked dry of all the juicy usage data on AWS and Azure customers, bled of its innovation, to be discarded in a few years time...
I like it too. Don't care much for google buying them, it can only end badly.
Would any evidence convince you that wiz-the-product exists? there are tons of comments on the thread, people discussing it on reddit, integrations with all sorts of products, stackoverflow questions about wiz terraform provider, tons of image search results for "wiz.io dashboard" (most outside of wiz.io domains)...
I've seen them at trade shows and heard good things. I had also heard that Google tried buying them last year but it didn't go through, I'm curious about how/why they did it now
What I read is that last year they weren't sure yet if they wanted to go public instead, but the current financial climate isn't good for going public so they went for an acquisition instead.
I feel like there may be better ways to address your points without insulting the person you're replying to... Any chance you'd be willing and able to compose a reply that adds credibility to your claims? Or is this more of a "grudge against that commenter in particular" sorta thing?
I've used wiz in a previous job. Its a good product. I don't know if they invented disk snapshot based security scanning, but they certainly popularized it.
Companies like CrowdStrike have copied a lot of what Wiz has been doing (and I'm sure wiz has copied some CrowdStrike features).
This announcement is pretty disappointing to me. I would have more faith in Wiz as an independent company than as part of Google. I expect their innovation to fall off a cliff.
I am suspicious of the acquisition and critical of its founders. But at the same time I'm sitting here looking a Wiz logs and dashboards. The product is certainly real.
please stop: you're spamming this thread and there are enough people here who have experience with the product and claiming they're lying just doesn'
t pass even the most basic tests.
