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The tech world took a major duple take this class when a protection startup call off Wiz founded out of Israel just four year in the beginning became the topic of a record - breaking , $ 23 billion acquisition attempt by Google — an offer the startup boldly go along … to refuse .
Really ? Yes , really .
We will be talk to Assaf Rappaport , Wiz ’s CEO and Centennial State - beginner , on the Disrupt Stage atTechCrunch Disrupt 2024 , hire place at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 28 - 30 , to ask him all the with child questions about this , and more : Why did Rappaport take the air away from the muckle ? What is next for Wiz ? breach are a entire incubus : Can we ever restore cybersecurity once and for all ? And what ’s the mystery to his winner ?
Wizmay right now be known most for being the inauguration that said no to Google , but its real standout is that it is not your average cloud security provider .
There is no mellow watermark for data breaches or malicious internet bodily process these days : Incidents just keep growing in routine and impingement . And Wiz has emerge as a go - to , all - in - one political program for businesses of all sizes seem for a better defence visibility . In a field dense with competition , Wiz has been growing like a weed .
And Wiz ’s drawing card , Assaf Rappaport , is not your average founder .
With a background heavy in academic and military intelligence , Rappaport has an uncanny ability to see what is coming around the box before others do , and he has figured out how to rein in his expertise into shaft that just solve to address that .
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Rappaport also happens to have a track record beyond his current business organisation that proves this out . Before set off star , he constitute and sold his previous security measure inauguration to Microsoft . That became the basis of the company ’s whole swarm security line .
With Rappaport still only at the proportional start of his career , and Wiz still give way strong , there are more chapters yet to be written in this floor .
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