Joel De La Garza
Joel de la Garza is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) focused on information security investments. He previously served as Chief Security Officer at Box and held senior security leadership roles at Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. He is known for his analysis of cybersecurity market trends, AI-driven threats, and the evolving security landscape, including discussions on AI-generated malware and autonomous vulnerability exploitation.
“the most crippling, catastrophic cyber attacks are always sort of the insider threat angle.”
Source→“the switch data centers in Las Vegas. You know, they got the Jeeps with the 50 cal machine guns on them.”
Source→“Ben Horowitz at RSA this year gave a really great talk on some work we had done internally at A16Z where we were using OpenClaw. And we found that with OpenClaw, the guardrails, at least for Opus 4.6, kind of disappeared.”
Source→“The existential risk isn't necessarily getting all of your emails leaked... if Microsoft had missed cloud, that would have been very bad for Microsoft.”
Source→“Microsoft having, if Microsoft had missed cloud, that would have been very bad for Microsoft. So luckily, Satya did a great job riding that wave.”
Source→“My thesis 10 years ago was that security engineers will become real engineers, so maybe now is the time.”
Source→“AI models are no longer just identifying software vulnerabilities. They're beginning to exploit them.”
Source→“Malware authors were never really great coders. So like, if the code starts looking better, it's probably vibe-coded, right?”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.