73
They should not be allowed to continue hoovering up companies. They have more than enough resources to break into new and existing markets from scratch. Allowing them to acquire additional companies and talent erodes competition.
Unless, of course, they bribe the right politicians and justices; then it's okay.
I think you mean tip the right politicians. Bribes are illegal.
Silly me. Yes, of course.
Sounds like it's time for congress to take discussion of dissolving Alphabet a lot more seriously.
Imagine how much google would have to bribe them to get out of that mess.
GOP is pretty cheap. DNC have to be corrupt from the start to even have a chance. So, either a little or enough to cover an entire election campaign for starters.
Not that I want this to happen, but cybersecurity is probably a far better investment than AI will ever be.
Internal security is almost always seen as a cost, rather than as an asset.
So you frequently see a “we have a firewall; let’s cut those jobs and save the money “
It was more of a comment about how many millions they have wasted on AI with very little to show for it. At least they have a chance of better protecting themselves by acquiring this. They probably won't, but it's still more likely to help them out than what they gave to Reddit.
That's billions good sir
Google owner Alphabet is in advanced discussions to buy fast-growing cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23 billion so they can kill off their largest hurdle to acquiring all of humanity's personal data.
Wiz scans clouds for “vulnerabilities”, and sometimes provides remediation advice. For example, if a vm’s kernel is outdated, it might recommend “sudo dnf remove —purge kernel”. And yeah, there sure won’t be any vulnerabilities after that.
It also complains about anything internet facing - including intentionally internet facing services - but that’s another rant for another time.
From what we've seen with Wiz. It's hard to beat their cloud and container security. I hope this sell doesn't go through, we'll likely have to switch from them as a Microsoft shop
Did you switch away from Terraform when IBM bought Hashicorp?
Oh goodie, another round or three of layoffs
They are going to buy CNN business?
Oh, wait...
Well, I guess after this, it’s X, then Yahoo, followed by Zendesk.
Google had a product called Zeitgeist. Guess what, they killed it.
Can't say I'm surprised. Been using Wiz for a short while and it really fills in a lot of gaps left by teams going to "The Cloud". It seems like devs working in cloud environments all forgot that security is a thing and so we get an absolute shit-show of misconfigured containers, networks, K8s clusters, etc. Add to that Google, AWS and Azure all seeming to treat security as an afterthought as well, and organizations need a Wiz or something like it to trawl through the cesspool and point out, "hey, maybe you should update that Wordpress plugin with several known RCE CVEs."
The long and short of the current state of cloud security reminds me an awful lot of the early 2000's view of on-prem security. People just throw up firewalls (excuse me, VPS configurations) and call it a day. Once the attack gets past the edge (and they always get past the edge) visibility and response actions fall off a cliff. We're at a point where we need EDR and NDR for the cloud; but, there isn't much in that space yet. Wiz is one of the options and I can see Google wanting to own a piece of that growing pie.
Rapid7 works well for security in the cloud when set up for it.
this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2024
73 points (96.2% liked)
News
22800 readers
3271 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS