The tech world took a significant double take this yr when a safety startup referred to as Wiz based out of Israel simply 4 years earlier grew to become the topic of a record-breaking, $23 billion acquisition try by Google — a proposal the startup boldly proceeded … to refuse.
Actually? Sure, actually.
We will probably be speaking to Assaf Rappaport, Wiz’s CEO and co-founder, on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, happening at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 28-30, to ask him all the large questions on this, and extra: Why did Rappaport stroll away from the deal? What’s subsequent for Wiz? Breaches are a complete nightmare: Can we ever repair cybersecurity as soon as and for all? And what’s the key to his success?
Wiz could proper now be recognized most for being the startup that mentioned no to Google, however its actual standout is that it’s not your common cloud safety supplier.
There isn’t a excessive watermark for knowledge breaches or malicious community exercise as of late: Incidents simply continue to grow in quantity and impression. And Wiz has emerged as a go-to, all-in-one platform for companies of all sizes in search of a greater protection profile. In a discipline heavy with competitors, Wiz has been rising like a weed.
And Wiz’s chief, Assaf Rappaport, isn’t your common founder.
With a background heavy in lecturers and navy intelligence, Rappaport has an uncanny skill to see what’s coming across the nook earlier than others do, and he has found out the right way to harness his experience into instruments that simply work to handle that.
Rappaport additionally occurs to have a monitor file past his present enterprise that proves this out. Earlier than beginning Wiz, he based and bought his earlier safety startup to Microsoft. That grew to become the premise of the corporate’s complete cloud safety enterprise.
With Rappaport nonetheless solely on the relative begin of his profession, and Wiz nonetheless going robust, there are extra chapters but to be written on this story.
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