Wiz’s Ryan Kazanciyan on navigating cloud complexity and cyber risk

Ryan Kazanciyan, CIO and CISO for Wiz, discussed the impact of cloud services on cybersecurity, noting both benefits and challenges. Cloud services offer well-documented, developer-friendly platforms with built-in logging, but their rapid adoption and complexity pose new configuration risks. Kazanciyan emphasized the difficulty in understanding attack paths across interdependent cloud services. He also addressed the role of AI in cybersecurity, highlighting AI-enabled threats that exploit vulnerabilities in vibe-coded applications and the need for defenders to understand their environments and implement programmatic guardrails.