The a16z Show · Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Emilio Escobar, CISO of DataDog, discusses the challenges and strategies for managing AI agents within an enterprise. He highlights the need to embrace AI for innovation while implementing controls to mitigate risks, particularly concerning data access and code execution.
“I do worry about what can the agents do, what tools can they call, what binaries can they pull, and also how do they get access to credentials.”
“So what we do is now we put this judge in front of every skill that wants to get introduced.”
“We actually find quite a bit of malicious skills in all these marketplaces.”