Datadog’s Rob Aragao on breaking down security silos

Rob Aragao, Datadog’s Field CISO, discussed cyber resilience in the age of generative AI. He emphasized that defense leaders must focus on anticipating threats, minimizing impacts and accelerating recovery through adaptive security capabilities. Aragao suggested leveraging AI to automate low-level analyst tasks, allowing human operators to focus on high-value mission outcomes. Furthermore, he highlighted the opportunity to achieve mission advantage by integrating security with observability data. By breaking down silos between teams and providing a unified view of telemetry, organizations can gain better situational awareness and make faster, more precise decisions during incidents.