Google is considering spending $23 billion to buy Wiz, a cloud cybersecurity startup with partners including amazon and Oracle, reports The Wall Street JournalNearly double what it spent on Motorola Mobility in 2012, it would be the most Google has ever paid for another company.
According to the company, New York City-based Wiz offers “isolated security tools and scanners” for the enterprise. Wiz writes that it protects corporate cloud infrastructure “by creating a normalizing layer between cloud environments,” allowing companies to “quickly identify and eliminate critical risks.” The purchase of such a company seems especially targeted at an increasingly vulnerable Microsoft that has recently weathered multiple high-profile crises…
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