Google reportedly in talks to acquire cloud security company Wiz for $23B

Google’s parent company Alphabet might be on the verge of making its biggest acquisition ever.The Wall Street Journal reports that Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire Wiz for around $23 billion. While the deal isn’t finalized, the WSJ says it could come together soon. Wiz offers an all-in-one approach to cloud security, ingesting data from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and other cloud platforms, then scanning it all for security risk factors. Presumably, Alphabet executives see t ...