How Wiz & Google Cloud Build AI You Can Trust
Year: 2026 · ▶ Watch on YouTube
Ankur Kotwal (Manager, Developer Relations) · Salman Ladha (Staff Product Marketing Manager)
Segments (7)
- 00:00:00 · Introduction — Ankur Kotwal
- Ankur Kotwal welcomes viewers to the developer livestream at Google Cloud Next ‘26 and introduces his guest, Salman Ladha from Wiz.
- 00:00:46 · What is Wiz? — Salman Ladha
- Salman provides an overview of Wiz as a cloud security platform that helps organizations protect everything they build and run in cloud and AI environments.
- 00:01:47 · Solving Developer Problems with AI Security — Salman Ladha
- The goal is to empower developers to build with AI securely by meeting them in their AI-native tooling and scanning code before it’s even committed.
- 00:04:03 · From ‘Shift Left’ to ‘Shifting Down’ — Salman Ladha
- Salman reframes the concept of ‘shift left’ to ‘shifting down,’ where security responsibility is abstracted into the platform and AI agents themselves.
- 00:07:17 · Wiz AI Security Demo — Salman Ladha
- Salman demos how Wiz provides visibility and security for AI-generated applications, using a fictional ‘DataBot’ app as an example.
- 00:09:58 · The Three Agents: Red, Green, and Blue — Salman Ladha
- The demo showcases Wiz’s three AI agents: Red (AI attacker), Green (AI fixer), and Blue (AI defender), which work together to find, fix, and defend against threats.
- 00:16:51 · Call to Action — Salman Ladha
- Developers are encouraged to download the Wiz plugin from their IDE marketplaces to get started with securing their AI development.
Products Announced (4)
- 00:02:40 ·
Wiz Code Plugins(Available)- Integrates with AI-native IDEs and coding agents. · Scans AI-generated code for misconfigurations, secrets, and vulnerabilities. · Provides security feedback before code is committed to a repository.
- Available in IDE marketplaces.
- 00:10:59 ·
Wiz Red Agent(Available)- AI-powered attacker that proactively tries to find exploits. · Identifies critical issues like unrestricted access to sensitive data. · Provides reproduction commands for validation.
- Part of the Wiz platform.
- 00:12:27 ·
Wiz Green Agent(Available)- AI-powered fixer that generates remediation plans. · Identifies the original code owner for assignment. · Can partner with coding agents to create pull requests with fixes.
- Part of the Wiz platform.
- 00:15:25 ·
Wiz Blue Agent(Available)- AI-powered defender that monitors the environment for active threats. · Classifies threats and provides an AI-powered story of the attack. · Integrates with predefined response playbooks.
- Part of the Wiz platform.
Demos (1)
- 00:07:32 ✓ · Wiz AI Security Platform Demo — Salman Ladha
- A demonstration of how the Wiz platform secures a fictional, AI-generated ‘DataBot’ application by using its Red, Green, and Blue AI agents to find, remediate, and defend against security risks.
Notable Quotes (4)
- 00:02:02 — Salman Ladha:
Our goal is really simple. We want to empower all of you and every engineering team in the world to go fast with AI, to build with AI, and to deliver amazing software.
- 00:05:18 — Salman Ladha:
I prefer to think of it as shifting down. We are abstracting the responsibility of security directly into the agents themselves.
- 00:10:50 — Salman Ladha:
In the era of AI, one of the best forms of defense that we have as defenders is to use AI on ourselves.
- 00:16:27 — Salman Ladha:
These three agents create this beautiful, virtuous loop.
Visual Signals
On-screen (8)
- 00:00:04 ·
Lower third: 'Ankur Kotwal, Manager, Developer Relations, Google Cloud'- Identifies the host and his role at Google Cloud.
- 00:00:50 ·
Lower third: 'Salman Ladha, Staff Product Marketing Manager, Wiz'- Identifies the guest speaker and his role at Wiz.
- 00:07:32 ·
Web UI for 'Finance Org' and 'DataBot SPA v1.0'- Shows the fictional application that will be the subject of the security demo.
- 00:09:00 ·
Wiz Platform UI: 'AI Security' Dashboard- Introduces the main dashboard for Wiz’s AI security capabilities, showing visibility, posture, risk, and threat detection.
- 00:09:30 ·
Wiz Platform UI: 'Risk Issues' and 'Attack Path Visualization'- Shows the security graph that maps out application architecture and potential attack paths.
- 00:11:15 ·
Wiz Finding: 'Unrestricted Access to Sensitive Information (API Credentials, Customer PII, Credit Ca- Details a critical vulnerability found by the Wiz Red Agent.
- 00:14:03 ·
GitHub Issue: 'Externally exposed AI agent with authentication bypass vulnerability exposing sensiti- Shows the automatically generated GitHub issue with code fixes proposed by the Green Agent and assigned to a coding agent.
- 00:15:11 ·
Wiz Threat Alert: 'This threat was classified as Malicious'- Shows an active threat detected in real-time by the Wiz Blue Agent.
Stage (1)
- 00:00:00 · The segment takes place in a studio setting at the Google Cloud Next ‘26 conference, with two speakers sitting at a desk with microphones and laptops.
Visual demos (1)
- 00:07:32 · A split-screen view with the speaker on the right and a web browser on the left, demonstrating the Wiz platform.
- The demo showed a fictional chatbot app (‘DataBot’), the Wiz AI Security dashboard, the Wiz Security Graph visualization, a GitHub issue with a generated pull request, and threat detection alerts.
Key Topics
AI Security · Cloud Security · DevSecOps · Application Security · Shift Left · AI Agents · Code Generation Security · Vulnerability Management · Threat Detection · Automated Remediation · Multi-cloud Security · Security Graph · Developer Experience · Platform Engineering
Takeaways
- Wiz is a cloud security platform that aims to secure the entire software development lifecycle, from code to cloud, with a focus on AI environments.
- The rapid pace of AI-generated code creates a new security challenge, as traditional review processes cannot keep up.
- Wiz proposes ‘shifting down’ security responsibility to the platform and AI agents, rather than just ‘shifting left’ and burdening developers.
- The platform uses a trio of AI agents: Red (attacker), Green (fixer), and Blue (defender) to create a virtuous cycle of proactive threat discovery, automated remediation, and real-time defense.
- Wiz Code plugins integrate directly into AI-native IDEs to scan code for vulnerabilities before it is committed, providing immediate feedback to developers.
- The Wiz Security Graph provides a comprehensive, contextual map of an organization’s cloud and code environments, visualizing architecture, dependencies, and potential attack paths.
- By automating security tasks and providing context-rich, validated findings, Wiz aims to reduce friction between security and development teams, allowing developers to build faster and more securely.