Wiz founder: hack yourself with AI, before the bad guys do.
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Wiz founder: hack yourself with AI, before the bad guys do. At Google Cloud Next, Wiz co-founder Yinon Costica called on security defenders to use AI to steal a march on threat actors, and launched new agentic capabiltiies for cyber teams. Published: 24 Apr 2026 20:15 Security leaders should be turning offensive AI cyber tools on their own systems before threat actors do, exploiting the innate defenders' advantage to attain the high ground and increase their chances of withstanding a cyber attack. So says Yinon Costica, co-founder of Google-owned Wiz, who, speaking at Google Cloud Next in Las Vegas, argued that defenders can win against attackers by using AI to exploit an advantage that may not appear obvious at first glance, that of context. "The same AI model can obviously produce very different results based on the context that we feed into it," said Costica. "Now, attackers hopefully have much less context about us while as defenders we do have a lot of context about our environments that we can share with the model. "If, as defenders, we take the first movers' advantage and we use the AI against ourselves, with the context we have, we actually stand a chance to win... But we need to act fast," he said. "We need to start using AI against ourselves as much as possible, whether it's to scan attack surfaces, scan code, scan anything, in order to be the first one to...
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To try to help, Wiz unveiled three new AI agents at Google Cloud Next - red, green and blue - which are named for the human cyber teams they are designed to help.
