Google plans to spend $23 billion to buy Wiz, a cloud cybersecurity startup with partners including Amazon and Oracle, reports The Wall Street Journal. At almost double what it spent on Motorola Mobility In 2012, it would be the highest amount Google has ever paid for another company.
New York-based Wiz offers “siloed security tools and scanners” for enterprises, according to the company. Wiz writes that it secures companies’ cloud infrastructure “by creating a layer of standardization across cloud environments,” allowing companies to “rapidly identify and remove critical risks.” The purchase of such a company seems particularly targeted at an increasingly vulnerable Microsoft that has recently resisted several high profile…
