Front Lines Podcast: What Founders Get Wrong When Pitching CISOs

Socket CISO Andrew Becherer discusses security leadership, vendor evaluation, and AI-driven development on the Early Adopters: CISO podcast, recorded at Black Hat 2026. Drawing on his experience as Datadog’s sole security employee in 2015 and the company’s response to a 2016 breach, he explains the foundational practices needed to build and scale security programs. The conversation considers how agentic coding can accelerate the creation of security tools while creating long-term maintenance, reliability, and ownership obligations. Becherer also advises founders that CISOs respond more strongly to demonstrated current pain points, practical solutions, and candid discussions of limitations than to speculative future threats, while addressing the broader challenge of securing AI agents.

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