If you have a problem with Unit 8200 alumni, you’re going to have a difficult time buying commercially available security products. Palo Alto Networks, Armis, Checkpoint, and many others were either founded by or otherwise have former 8200 folks on staff. Then there’s crowdstrike, founded by a Russian. Or Fortinet, which was founded by Ken Xie (born in Beijing.)
I guess you could base your entire security stack on F Secure. Everyone loves the Finns.
Where do you see Wiz in the above list of products in the post I'm responding to?
In any case, as for wiz..., if companies want to stuff their secrets into a proprietary product that is controlled by intelligence officers of a hostile (as in a lack of respect for international law) foreign country, I don't care. I know I would not.
This thread is talking about Wiz. The comment you responded to was about the fact that security company founders often have intelligence community backgrounds and/or come from adversary states (from a US/European perspective.) It had nothing to do with VPN.
I can chose to what part of a comment I'll respond to. I responded to list of companies providing "VPN" software. Fortinet, paloalto/globalprotect, checkpoint,...
It's the only product I'm sometimes required to come in contact with from these companies. And also the only product of theirs that I inspected in any detail in Ghidra. And the only product of theirs that I have to defend my network against.
So I'm only interested in that aspect of their products. For everything else, all these security companies and their customers can devour each other, for all I care.
> The founders of CrowdStrike—George Kurtz, Dmitri Alperovitch, and Gregg Marston—do not have publicly documented personal connections to Israel. That's the first claim of yours I faield to verify so I won't bother with the rest.
I realize reading is a very difficult skill to master, but maybe -- just maybe -- you couldn't verify that "claim" because I never made it.
I think parent was saying that if someone has a problem with Wiz being ex 8200, they would have problems buying cybersecurity solutions in general because the more established companies founders with foreign non-allies background.
That is clearly a false equivalence though. Being born in a country is qualitatively different to working in a military unit requiring security clearance.
I guess you could base your entire security stack on F Secure. Everyone loves the Finns.