[megous]

I trust open source code I can see and compile and control. :)

How is "trusting wiz" (trusting some icons on website controlled by wiz leading to publicly inaccessible reports, half of which are done by a single company somewhere in Florida) related to what Google might do with it after aquisition?

[marcus0x62]

That’s great. For you. Most businesses don’t have the ability or desire to build every single security tool they use in-house or use open source for everything. So they buy commercial tools. Which are audited by third parties to give the companies that use the commercial tools some idea of how their data will be used.

If google wants to maintain those audit findings, which they’ll need to do to keep most of their customers, that’s going to limit the kind of data collection they can do. Unless, of course, you want to propose a new conspiracy theory (which I guess would be par for the course in this thread) that Google is going to lie to their auditors to get at that sweet, sweet data (most of which they already have for their GCP customers and don’t need to buy Wiz to obtain.)

[megous]

Google has GCP customer data, but Wiz tool aparently works not just for GCP, so there's a lot of competitor cloud data to be had from aquiring it.