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Nir Orfeld

Nir Orfeld

Head of Vulnerability Research at Wiz, recognized on Forbes 30 Under 30, and lead researcher behind Project Atlas — Wiz's AI vulnerability research system.

Aug 10, 2026

3:15
Could you first tell us about your cloud hacking competition? Why did you start that? What did you discover? And then tell us how this turned into Project Atlas.
3:24
Yeah, of course.
3:26
So actually, the story begins five years ago.
3:30
We've been doing cloud vulnerability research for around five years, since the early days of Waze.
3:37
And we had pretty good success at finding cross-tenant vulnerabilities.
3:43
Cross-tenant vulnerabilities are vulnerabilities where we, from our account, are able to access the resources of other customers using the same cloud provider, whether it would be Azure, AWS, or GCP.
3:56
And this is the worst kind of cloud vulnerabilities.

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22:20
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