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Sabrina Halper Show · 3 min · Oct 7, 2026

Adoption is cybersecurity’s biggest unsolved problem

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Yinon Costica

Co-founder, Wiz

Co-founded Wiz, the cloud security company Google bought for $32 billion, and leads its product organization.

  • Sabrina HalperHost · Host, Sabrina Halper Show

    Has worked as an investor at HOF Capital and founded SHS Media.

About this segment

Costica says the blocker is not AI capability but adoption across approval steps and security silos. He sees unified, automated workflows as a path toward self-healing security.

From “Google’s $32B Bet on Cybersecurity in the AI vs. AI Era | Wiz Co-Founder Yinon Costica”, Oct 7, 2026. Watch the full episode

“I think the biggest unsolved problem is how do we create processes to implement it at scale in organizations.”
YCYinon Costicaat 47:36 · Sabrina Halper Show47:36

Takeaways

  1. Build trust in agent workflows to reduce approval bottlenecks.
  2. Security teams need a cross-silo view of the environment.
  3. Removing process bottlenecks could make security self-healing.
Watch 2:40 from 47:13

In this episode

Full episode
  1. 8:44Wiz followed customer pain instead of its original idea5:17
  2. 17:47Wiz Atlas makes vulnerability research repeatable5:06
  3. 38:32AI can give defenders a compounding advantage5:00

  4. 47:13Adoption is cybersecurity’s biggest unsolved problem2:40

  5. 44:27Wiz shifted to AI before models were fully capable2:57Up next
  6. 14:09Wiz kept teams aligned by updating its operating framework2:56
  7. 34:41AI models still inherit risks from their underlying infrastructure3:52
  8. 28:38Consumer agents need permission and audit checks3:00

Transcript

Transcribed by machine (Whisper) from the episode’s audio, so a word may be off here and there.

  1. 47:20

    organically. The transformation, I think, was around how do we use AI to secure? Yes, it's both sides of it. What do you think is the biggest unsolved problem in cybersecurity today, especially in this rapidly changing landscape? So I think first, as we discussed, the technology today exists to help defenders, which is great, great news. I think the biggest unsolved problem is how do we create processes to implement it at scale in organizations. And by doing this, we have to solve many problems that today slow us down in the sense that we need We need to have many human approvals. So how do we build trust in agentic workflows to do the job for us?

  2. 48:08

    We simply have to get through this if we want to benefit from the AI technologies that can help us defend. We need maybe to think about many silos. When an attacker looks at an environment, they don't care about organizations or teams. they look at the state they go in and on the defense side we have many silos someone takes care of the application security someone takes care of the cloud another person takes care of the network of the identity it's all very fragmented and if we really do want to secure it we have to think about how do we create a single view or a single process that secures across all of these teams so we have organizational fragmentation that we need to get through so if we get through the ability to automate and then do it across the entire environment then I think we are in a really really good position not

  3. 49:05

    only to you know not only to match the threats that AI may pose but I think that it gives us a very different horizon for how we think about security a year from today security has always been a very bottlenecked area we could only do this much to secure our environment because it was people heavy process and if we remove that bottleneck maybe we can create a security environment that is self-healing and secures itself and it's not something that I cannot imagine that is happening so the future is bright we need to remove the adoption lockers to get there yes because we want companies to be able