Brendan Foody

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1,144 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 1 Jun

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Here's the trajectory of the business.

And I think that was very helpful to the entire team.

But it was definitely annoying that there were all of these people saying things that didn't actually happen, and we couldn't quite speak out against them too explicitly.

Otherwise, there's going to be the Twitter mob circling and all these recommendations from lawyers, et cetera.

That is exactly what happened.

I can even think of one person that's very prominent who's invested in multiple competitors and just made this tweet about how all of our data was getting accessed by China when it was totally untrue.

I think so.

I mean, we're even seeing this on the customer side where our customers obviously are very focused on how do we improve the model cyber defensive capabilities so that we can have the best AI security engineer that is able to defend every enterprise from all of these attacks.

Because in our incident, it was the attacker that used a swarm of coding agents to help get access to the system as is happening in a lot of these.

And so I think there's going to be an enormous boom in AI security engineering tools and various forms of defense that are able to help protect companies against all of the increasing waves of cyber incidents that are just getting started.

When a normal attacker is trying to find vulnerabilities, they can only review so much code and go through a certain portion of it at a human speed bound by the amount of people in their team.

versus when they're using swarms of agents, they're able to be very exhaustive in reviewing the entire code base, looking at the entire front end, all the different things that they've accessed.

And so that has allowed a lot of these attackers to just move much more quickly.

And so we've been exploring various collaborations with customers and how we can strengthen their cyber defensive capabilities to hedge against exactly this type of attack as well.

False.

Our relationship with OpenAI is stronger than ever.

Obviously, I can't speak too much to specific customer relationships, though.

Can I push on Meta?

Of course.

I mean, I think that Meta currently the relationship is still paused.

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