Datadog CISO Emilio Escobar on Securing Agents at Scale In this conversation, Emilio Escobar joins a16z's Joel de la Garza at Black Hat to cover what happens when you hand coding agents to 4,000 engineers, why the permissioning that worked for a decade broke the moment agents could write their own SQL, and why Emilio isn't panicking: 00:00 Intro 00:55 Securing agents 03:11 AI flattens the org chart 05:20 Role-based MCP servers & sandboxing agent credentials 07:34 Understanding agents' intent 10:27 How to avoid reward hacking 12:07 How the CISO's role is changing 14:05 "Security engineers will become real engineers" 18:12 Why Emilio isn't panicking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSYnuCqCL4o @eaescob @datadoghq(a16z)