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Joel de la Garza

Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

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  • PANEL: AI Security: Defending the New Attack Surface

    October 21, 2026 · 📺 Grace Gong

    AI is reshaping cybersecurity on both sides of the battlefield, creating new attack surfaces while giving defenders powerful new tools. In this panel, Alex Stamos, Chief Product Officer at Corridor and former Chief Security Officer at Facebook; Emilio Escobar, Chief Information Security Officer at Datadog; and Joel de la Garza, Investment Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), join Grace Gong, Founder and CEO of Smart Venture Media, to explore how AI is transforming cyber threats and defense. The conversation examines AI as a vector, an actor, and a target, including autonomous attacks, real-t…

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  • Why One Internet Pioneer Thinks the Original Model Broke

    October 01, 2026 · 📺 a16z

    a16z’s Joel de la Garza sits down with DoxxNet founder Barrett Lyon to discuss what it would take to rebuild the internet around privacy, direct communication, and less dependence on centralized intermediaries. Barrett explains why he thinks traditional VPNs only solve part of the problem and how DoxxNet is building a parallel mesh network where users can communicate peer-to-peer, transfer large files, make calls, and message without routing those interactions through a central application server. He also explains why the company owns its infrastructure and runs its AI systems locally rather…

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  • Security Will Always Lose If It Gets in the Way: Joel de la Garza (a16z)

    September 16, 2026 · 📺 Insecure Agents

    Every security leader knows that developers will work around security tooling when they can if it gets in the way of their job. The truth is, employees don't get paid to be secure; they get paid to do their job. Joel de la Garza, partner on the infrastructure team at a16z and former CISO of Box, tells us that the moment security gets in the way of what people want to do, security loses. For a lot of teams, this has meant tolerating uncomfortable security gaps to get the value agents can bring. At Keycard, we call the underlying bind the trilemma of autonomy, capability, and security: teams c…

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  • How Microsoft is Adapting to the AI Era

    August 21, 2026 · 📺 a16z Deep Dives

    a16z's Joel De La Garza is joined by Aaron Zollman, Deputy CISO at Microsoft Gaming, to discuss how security teams can embrace AI agents without losing control. Aaron shares Microsoft's experience with OpenClaw, from the initial instinct to ban it to figuring out how to make it safe to use. They unpack what agents mean for identity, permissions, containerization, and monitoring, as well as how AI is shifting the CISO's role from saying "no" to safely enabling new technology. They also explore whether AI could help defenders patch vulnerabilities as quickly as they're discovered, and why new…

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  • Cybersecurity in the Agentic Era | Deep Dives with a16z

    August 18, 2026 · 📺 a16z Deep Dives

    a16z's Joel De La Garza is joined by Nick Warner of Neo and Max Pollard of Cotool to discuss what happens when cybersecurity tools built to defend against humans and malware suddenly have to contend with AI agents. As frontier models become more capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities, many of the assumptions underlying traditional security are beginning to break. They explore why guardrails designed to stop AI-powered attackers can also prevent security teams from doing their jobs, why defenders increasingly need access to multiple models, and how agentic software creates an entire…

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  • Datadog CISO on Securing AI Agents at Scale | Deep Dives with a16z

    August 11, 2026 · 📺 a16z Deep Dives

    a16z's Joel De La Garza is joined by Emilio Escobar, Chief Information Security Officer at Datadog, to discuss what it takes to secure a company where nearly every employee is using AI and more than 4,000 engineers are working with coding agents. Rather than trying to block new tools, Emilio explains why Datadog chose to embrace AI early and build the security infrastructure needed to use it safely. They unpack how AI changes traditional assumptions around data permissions, credentials, developer access, and software supply chains. Emilio shares how Datadog uses role-based MCP servers and eph…

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  • AI Is Learning to Hack. Faster Than We Expected.

    August 07, 2026 · 📺 a16z

    Joel De La Garza is joined by Dylan Ayrey, co-founder and CEO of Truffle Security, and Feross Aboukhadijeh, founder and CEO of Socket, to discuss one of the biggest shifts happening in cybersecurity: AI models are no longer just finding vulnerabilities—they're exploiting them. As frontier models become increasingly capable of hacking, software security, supply chain attacks, and cyber defense are entering a fundamentally new era. The conversation explores AI-powered hacking, software supply chain attacks, leaked credentials, zero-day vulnerabilities, package manager security, and why the path…

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  • OpenAI Built an AI to Hack Its Own Code—Here’s What It Found

    December 10, 2025 · 📺 a16z Deep Dives

    Matt Knight spent five years as OpenAI’s CISO. Now he runs what colleagues call “the most interesting job at the company”: leading Aardvark, an AI agent that finds security vulnerabilities the way a human researcher would—by reading code, writing tests, and proposing patches. It recently found a memory corruption bug in OpenSSH, one of the most heavily audited codebases in existence. In this conversation with a16z’s Joel de la Garza, Matt traces the evolution from GPT-3 (which couldn’t analyze security logs at all) to GPT-4 (which could parse Russian cybercriminal chat logs written in slang)…

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  • AI + a16z Podcast: Vibe Coding, Security Risks, and the Path to Progress

    July 25, 2025 · 📺 Socket Security

    Socket CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh and a16z partner Joel de la Garza discuss vibe coding, AI-driven software development, and how the rise of LLMs, despite their risks, still points toward a more secure and innovative future.

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  • AI is Revolutionizing Web Security - Bots, Agents, & Real-Time Defense

    June 16, 2025 · 📺 a16z

    Arcjet CEO David Mytton sits down with a16z partner Joel de la Garza to discuss the increasing complexity of managing who can access websites, and other web apps, and what they can do there. A primary challenge is determining whether automated traffic is coming from bad actors and troublesome bots, or perhaps AI agents trying to buy a product on behalf of a real customer. Joel and David dive into the challenge of analyzing every request without adding latency, and how faster inference at the edge opens up new possibilities for fraud prevention, content filtering, and even ad tech. Topics incl…

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  • AI + a16z Podcast: Combatting Modern Supply Chain Attacks with AI

    May 06, 2024 · 📺 Socket Security

    Socket CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh recently joined a16z partner Joel de la Garza and Derrick Harris on the AI + a16z podcast, which features discussions with leading AI engineers, founders, and experts. This episode focuses on the emergence of powerful generative AI models, which offer new defensive capabilities to the security industry at a time when the threats are starting to outpace our outdated detection tools.

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  • SOSA | Cybersecurity: Digital Transformation Mode

    June 15, 2020 · 📺 SOSA

    William, speaks to Sharon, Eric, and Joel about today's age of rapid #digitaltransformation and its implications for emerging #cybersecurity challenges and opportunities. Due to #COVID, what shifts does Sharon see occurring that directly exploit some of our new vulnerabilities? What are Joel's observations as it pertains to the proliferation of cloud adoption and its implications for managing an enterprise's infrastructure? Does Eric believe we can leverage cybersecurity to serve as a business enabler? Featured Panelists: Sharon Schusheim, CIO & VP Technical Services, Check Point Eric Sing…

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