Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Datadog has always been driven by a broader vision of helping teams understand and operate complex systems. In this session, you’ll hear from Yrieix Garnier, VP of Product, and Hugo Kaczmarek, Senior Director of Product, as they share the latest updates across the Datadog product suite and discuss how that vision continues to shape the platform’s evolution and support the next generation of AI-driven applications.

In this episode of This Week in NET, host João Tomé is joined by Chema Alonso, Vice President and Head of International Development at Cloudflare. Chema shares how a 1998 paper on SQL injection launched his career in hacking, his path from running a startup in Madrid to becoming a Microsoft MVP for 14 years, and how he ended up leading cybersecurity at Telefónica for more than a decade — after telling them “you don’t have enough money to make me work for you.” He also explains why he left Telefónica in 2025 to join Cloudflare, and what surprised him about the company’s technical depth.

Cybercrime is up around 300% and AI is the reason. Cybercriminals are using large language models with no guardrails to accelerate phishing attacks, deepfakes, social engineering and malicious code generation. Information security professionals need to understand how AI is changing the threat landscape before it's too late.