Guest
Yinon Costica
Co-founder & VP of Product, Wiz
Real Alpha has cut 8 moments of Yinon Costica (Co-founder & VP of Product, Wiz) talking, from an interview on Sabrina Halper Show published Oct 7, 2026.
What Yinon Costica said
Wiz followed customer pain instead of its original idea
“But I think that what we missed is the process and the people that are actually using it.”
Yinon Costica13:04 Wiz Atlas makes vulnerability research repeatable
“Maybe now, in a way, I don't need to be a vulnerability researcher to do vulnerability research.”
Yinon Costica20:20 AI can give defenders a compounding advantage
“the defenders have a huge advantage in the sense that they do know and they can actually analyze it to really have deep context”
Yinon Costica40:30 Adoption is cybersecurity’s biggest unsolved problem
“I think the biggest unsolved problem is how do we create processes to implement it at scale in organizations.”
Yinon Costica47:36 Wiz shifted to AI before models were fully capable
“So we started experimenting. We first did the assistive technology from very early on”
Yinon Costica45:29 Wiz kept teams aligned by updating its operating framework
“you need to be able to update it as fast as the business goes”
Yinon Costica15:13 AI models still inherit risks from their underlying infrastructure
“it's actually on the underlying infrastructure that the model leverages for inputs and training sets”
Yinon Costica37:22 Consumer agents need permission and audit checks
“Maybe we need to look at the audit logs. Maybe we need to look at the permissions.”
Yinon Costica29:58
The episode
Sabrina Halper ShowGoogle’s $32B Bet on Cybersecurity in the AI vs. AI Era | Wiz Co-Founder Yinon Costica
Yinon Costica · Co-founder, Wiz
8:44of 1:01:44 · Oct 7
