Wiz CTO Tomer Schwartz Discusses Rapid PHP Vulnerabilities and the Need for Automated Security

Wiz CTO Tomer Schwartz explains how two critical PHP bugs—now dubbed PHP2Shell—triggered a global scramble to patch systems that power roughly 70% of the web. He recounts the coordinated effort between Wiz, OpenAI, the PHP core team, and the research group Calif to deploy fixes, noting that the incidents signal the start of a new era where AI accelerates the discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilities. Schwartz argues that manual patching cannot scale and urges early‑stage startups to embed security into their development lifecycles from day one.