The Security Podcast of Silicon Valley
Sep 22, 2026 · 38 min · 10 segments
Yashvier Kosaraju, who goes by Yash, is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of a16z, 4 months into the job when this was recorded, which by his own measure feels like about a year. The job…
Yeah, I get very excited about using new technologies and interesting new ways to help make the world a better and more secure place.
You know, when you look at the landscape out there of new technologies, like AI comes like screaming top of mind right at the top.
There seems to be a lot of competition, but a lot of really great work out there in the intersection between security and AI.
There are definitely great companies, but on the flip side, what I'm seeing is the security space is saturated with vendors.
We at some point need a consolidation to a very few ones that do more than just one feature.
I'd like to see a world where we don't need so many vendors to do all of those things.
What do you think the timelines are for all of those consolidations to just like converge?
I mean, before AI, I could give you a number that I would trust myself to sort of back up.
However, the one that I'm interested to see completely go away is your code security.
Now with AI writing most of your code, I'm looking forward to the day where all these coding agents write secure code by default and you don't need some of these features.
I was at a little CISO dinner here in San Francisco a few weeks back, and the tone of the entire dinner was just like, assume breach, you know, because AI is just a tool.
Yeah, I get very excited about using new technologies and interesting new ways to help make the world a better and more secure place.
You know, when you look at the landscape out there of new technologies, like AI comes like screaming top of mind right at the top.
There seems to be a lot of competition, but a lot of really great work out there in the intersection between security and AI.
There are definitely great companies, but on the flip side, what I'm seeing is the security space is saturated with vendors.
We at some point need a consolidation to a very few ones that do more than just one feature.
I'd like to see a world where we don't need so many vendors to do all of those things.
What do you think the timelines are for all of those consolidations to just like converge?
I mean, before AI, I could give you a number that I would trust myself to sort of back up.
However, the one that I'm interested to see completely go away is your code security.
Now with AI writing most of your code, I'm looking forward to the day where all these coding agents write secure code by default and you don't need some of these features.
I was at a little CISO dinner here in San Francisco a few weeks back, and the tone of the entire dinner was just like, assume breach, you know, because AI is just a tool.
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