00:06:17 · Yinon Costica
A pen test red teaming was a very, very exclusive expertise that we had to apply in very certain scopes of our environment only once a year and with a very limited, let's say, capacity of a human pen test. And now we can apply through what Wiz launched as a red agent. We now can apply continuous infinite capacity. So I think that this represents our ability to automate and bring capabilities. Wiz introduced a new layer of agents. We actually named them after the security teams, red, blue, and green agents. The red agent does pen testing like an offensive security team. The blue agent does defensive investigation response. And the green is actually fixing code cloud in order to bring back to to green state. And I think that this agentic layer represents a new way to extend security products and think about how security products should behave against an AI threat landscape.
00:07:20 · Sebastian Johnson
[00:07:20] S0: And and the the... There's the early stat or the early story of you having hundreds of discovery calls with CSOs in the early days of ways to try and find, you know, the issues that you want and settling from network security back to cloud security in this kind of, like, very transformational age of AI. And you seem to be talking about your agents, but there's a lot of things you're releasing quite quickly. Yeah. What is the process by which you are deciding what to build? Are you still relying on talking to stakeholders a lot? Because I feel like there could be almost some sort of gap in the in the sense that you probably have a better understanding a lot of the AI threats and risks than some of the stakeholders do because things are moving so quickly. Are you still able to rely on the feedback and input from CSOs? Or is there a bit more education this time around because, yeah, things are changing so quickly?
00:08:09 · Yinon Costica
[00:08:09] S1: So I think we have really operationalized at scale the concept of gathering feedback and ideas and partnering with the leaders in the market, the thought leaders in the market. We have amazing customers that are the really forefront of every domain we touch. We identify these customers that are really seeing eye to eye what should be the next capabilities. And this is how we partner, and this is how we continue to develop. So we're not doing it on, you know, one idea, 100 CISOs. We are doing it actually at scale across maybe thousands of customers and being able to sieve and filter these inputs at scale. I can talk a whole day about how we did it because we implemented into the product a way to share the road map, to share a feature request, to suggest capabilities, we have user groups, but we have really institutionalized how do we sieve feedback. How do we collect feedback at scale from customers? And this is still the guiding factor in how we build. At the same time today, Wiz, I think has given the scale in which we operate thousands of customers across all markets, regions, segments, verticals. I think Wiz also has a critical role in educating customers on the risks that we see. And this is why we are super active on the research front. You can read our blogs. You can read, like, really understanding what does it mean to secure our AI stack in a way that helps customers transform, but at the same time remain secured. And I think that this is one of the really muscles we've built in with. And from what I hear from customers, this ability to see through a very, you know, not FAD. Wiz is never about FAD, like fear, uncertainty, doubt. It's not about driving fear. It's really about understanding what is the reality, what are the risk we should all account for. And I think that this very sane voice is what helps a lot of customers to ground themselves against a lot of noise that is happening today in the market.
00:10:25 · Sebastian Johnson
[00:10:25] S0: And and how has it been since joining Google? So I know that you're still, you know, sort of separate, but you're obviously part of this amazing... Much bigger organization now during this incredible period of transformation. What's it been like sort of joining that company?
00:10:41 · Yinon Costica
[00:10:41] S1: It's so first, yes, we we remain independent. So in a way, it continues to be Wiz. But at the same time, I think that having access to resources that we could only have imagined before, For instance, access to threat intelligence that we can now embed into our products and, like, they are available to any customer through... With product, put us at the... Maybe the front, like, the best powered threat intelligence powered security product because of that access now that we have and the ability also, obviously, to leverage access to AI. Access to AI when we think about the AI capacity, the infrastructure, but also in terms of access to advanced AI models that maybe are not yet accessible to the public, and also the ability to control our own destiny in a way and train models on tasks that Wiz cares about. And I think the results are also published recently with Cyber Gemini and other capabilities that are coming, I think that this this ability to do it at scale, given the access to Google, is obviously... For engineers, it's, you know, it's a it's a really fun ride, and it provides us a really additional means to power up Wiz. At the same time, we also have a very significant go to market motion now powered by the Google broader field. And I think that this is another benefit that accelerates our business. I think it was mentioned in a few cases. Wiz experiences tremendous growth before Google and let alone now in Google, part because of, I would say, the AI transformation and the need to secure AI, part because of the product... New products we release, and part because of the acceleration with Google. So a lot of great stuff.
00:12:45 · Sebastian Johnson
[00:12:45] S0: And can we talk about Scan for Good? Because my understanding is Scan for Good. It is... I think it was released this week or last week. It's run on Red Agent, I think it's a good example of where it's, you know, like, Wiz product, but it sits on top of one of the Gemini models. Right? So can you talk a bit about that... Yeah. What it is and and and how it's operating?