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Big Technology Podcast

Is Generative AI a Cybersecurity Disaster Waiting to Happen? — With Yinon Costica

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.6395 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Yinon Costica is the co-founder and VP of product at Wiz, which sold to Google for $32 billion in cash. Costica joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the extent of the cybersecurity threats that generative AI is creating, from vulnerabilities in AI software to the risks involved in “vibe coding.” Tune in to hear how attackers are using AI, why defenders face new asymmetries, and what guardrails organizations need now. We also cover Google’s $32 billion acquisition of Wiz, the DeepSeek controversy, post-quantum cryptography, and the future risks of autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots. Hit play for a sharp, accessible look at the cutting edge of AI and cybersecurity.---Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice.Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016bQuestions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected] 00:00 Opening and guest intro01:05 AI as a new software stack04:25 Core AI tools with RCE flaws06:18 Cloud infrastructure risks09:20 How secure is AI-written code13:54 Agents and security reviewers17:38 How attackers use AI today22:09 Asymmetry: attackers vs. defenders32:36 What Wiz actually does40:11 DeepSeek case and media spin

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0:00.0

What type of novel security threats are emerging as AI advances?

0:04.8

Let's find out with WIS co-founder, Enon Kostika,

0:08.5

who is here in studio to speak with us about what's happening.

0:11.6

Yon, great to see you. Welcome to the show.

0:13.3

Thank you, Alex.

0:14.3

All right, so AI is doing amazing things.

0:17.4

It is producing lines and lines of code for engineers

0:20.7

and helping people build

0:21.9

things faster than they ever could before. The other side of it is, it's helping, I imagine,

0:27.7

bad guys produce lines and lines of code and attack faster than they ever could before.

0:34.1

Now, you are the co-founder of WIS, which is in the middle of a sales process or selling to Google

0:40.0

for $32 billion. Correct. Okay. So you're the perfect person to have to discuss this because

0:46.0

WIS is a cybersecurity company. We've never had a cybersecurity expert like you on to talk about

0:52.6

what's happening, especially as generative AI rises.

0:57.2

So just give us a little bit of a state of play here in terms of what this explosion of the

1:02.5

ability to code has done to cybersecurity.

1:05.5

Yeah, it's interesting.

1:06.6

I think the ability to code is just one aspect of AI.

1:10.0

When we think about AI as a whole, first I'm thinking about a whole new stick that is created.

1:16.2

We are now at an era that is the big bank of technologies, and you are reinventing a whole

1:23.3

array of capabilities, technologies that they are being brought in play, whether it's the prompts,

1:28.5

the model, the infrastructure, the platforms, and they are all playing together in order to

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