Google owner Alphabet is in advanced discussions to buy fast-growing cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23 billion, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN.

A takeover of Wiz, which makes cybersecurity software for cloud computing, would represent a major bet by Google on cybersecurity, marking the tech giant’s biggest-ever acquisition.

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    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

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      Did you switch away from Terraform when IBM bought Hashicorp?