Yinon Costica, Co-Founder and VP of Product at Wiz: Wiz’s AI agents protect companies from cyber attacks around the clock
Scaling EuropeShow Notes
Wiz keeps the cloud systems of thousands of companies safe, and it has kept running as its own business since Google bought it earlier this year. It just launched Scan for Good, which uses its AI agents to find weak spots in critical services like hospitals and national archives before anyone can exploit them.
Yinon Costica is Co-Founder and VP of Product at Wiz. Hackers are using AI to find security holes, so businesses need AI on their side to get to them first. Wiz is now building towards security that runs around the clock, with agents finding and fixing problems within minutes.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction0:14 What AI has in common with the move to cloud3:12 How customers are reacting 5:24 Red, blue and green agents7:34 Deciding what to build next10:28 Life inside Google 12:46 The launch of Scan for Good 16:10 What the red agent found 20:29 Attackers vs defenders 27:14 Getting ready for AI threats 30:13 Security that never switches off 31:50 Finding and fixing problems in minutes
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