Datadog engineers make frequent updates to the infrastructure, which can cause alarm for its security team if the engineers fail to work closely with them. To avoid miscommunication and ensure that releases have security built in, Datadog involves its security team during development. In August 2016, the company adopted PagerDuty as an integral component of its digital operations management. Today, in addition to using PagerDuty to supportengineering teams with business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR), Datadog uses PagerDuty to notify its information security team of events that require an immediate response.

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