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Wiz acquires Dazz for $450M to expand its cybersecurity platform


Wiz, one of the most talked-about names in the world of cybersecurity, is making a significant acquisition to expand its product reach in cloud security,

In the security industry, there are, Rappaport said, “a lot of Frankenstein mashups, where companies are prioritizing revenues over building one technology stack that actually works as a platform.” Arguably, integration is even more important in cybersecurity than in other areas of enterprise IT. Merat Bahat — the CEO who co-founded Dazz with Tomer Schwartz and Yuval Ofir (CTO and VP R&D, respectively) — worked closely with Assaf Rappaport at Microsoft, which acquired his previous startup Adallom. “Dazz is the leader in attack surface posture management, the ability to collect vulnerability signals from the application layer across the stack, and build the most amazing context that allows you to track it back to the engineers, to help with remediation.”

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