ROUNDTABLE | DATA#3 × DATADOG × SECURITYHQ
Balancing Risk & Reward: Exclusive CISO Roundtable on AI-Enabled Security Operations
Join a select group of CISOs and senior security leaders for a candid discussion on the opportunities and risks of AI-enabled security operations. Explore how your peers are approaching automation, human oversight, and the guardrails required to move faster without compromising control.
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About the Roundtable
AI is rapidly changing what security teams can automate, from correlating and investigating threats to recommending and increasingly executing response actions. As those capabilities advance, security leaders must determine not only where AI can improve speed and efficiency, but where greater autonomy introduces new operational and business risk.
This exclusive CISO roundtable will bring together a small group of senior security leaders to share how they are navigating that balance within their own organizations. Rather than a presentation-led session, the discussion will provide an opportunity to compare approaches, challenge assumptions, and learn how peers are thinking about AI adoption in real-world security operations.
The conversation will explore where organizations are comfortable allowing AI and automation to act, where human judgment remains essential, and how factors such as confidence, business consequence, and reversibility should inform those decisions. Participants will also discuss the governance and pre-agreed guardrails needed to establish clear boundaries for autonomous action before an incident occurs.
Attendees will leave with insight into how other security leaders are approaching these decisions, the questions they are asking internally, and the practical considerations shaping trustworthy AI-enabled security operations.
Join the Conversation
This isn’t a product demonstration. It’s a discussion between people working across technology, security operations and customer strategy about one of the most consequential questions facing modern security teams.
Michael Rain,SecurityHQ
Bringing the operational security perspective — how detection, investigation, containment and continuous engineering come together in real-world security environments.
Jay Desai,Datadog
Bringing the technology and AI perspective — how unified telemetry, AI and emerging agentic capabilities are changing how security teams understand, investigate and respond to threats.
Lincoln Owens,Data#3
Bringing the customer and business perspective — how organisations are balancing security transformation, AI adoption, operational resilience and risk.
About Datadog
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.
About DATA#3
@DATA#3 Limited (ASX: DTL) is a leading Australian IT services and solutions provider, focused on helping its customers solve complex business challenges using innovative technology solutions. Built on a foundation of more than 48 years’ experience, combined with world-leading vendor technologies, Data#3 delivers an integrated array of solutions spanning cloud, modern workplace, security, data & analytics and connectivity. These technology solutions are delivered by combining Data#3’s services across consulting, project services and support services. Headquartered in Brisbane, it has more than 1,400 staff, and facilities across 12 locations in Australia and Fiji.
About SecurityHQ
SecurityHQ is a global cybersecurity company that helps organizations engineer, measure, and continuously improve the performance of their security operations. Founded in 2003, the company delivers flexible and technology-agnostic solutions through its Security Performance Engineering approach. Built around each customer’s environment, the approach brings together managed detection and response, threat and adversary intelligence, exposure management, and advisory services. With 400+ analysts and engineers across six global SecOps Centers, SecurityHQ provides 24/7 human-led detection, response, and continuous improvement. Its work is focused on reducing noise, improving decision-making, and strengthening security performance over time.