Month: 2026-01 Key features delivered: - Terraform provider: Silent mode for CSM Threats Agent Rule. Added a silent attribute to the CSM Threats Agent Rule to allow silent operation without triggering alerts, enabling nuanced threat detection in Cloud Workload Security (CWS). Commit e8cf59ed243622272ea3988e71b4819304bff0a3. - Helm charts: Datadog Cloud Workload Security - Runtime Enforcement Parameter. Introduced a runtime enforcement parameter to enable or disable runtime enforcement for the security agent. Commit 6432aa19d409cf863ae4f6816e25b5a621bb851f. - Datadog Operator: Cloud Workload Security Enforcement Toggle. Added an enforcement parameter to enable or disable CWS in agent configuration; updated data models, configuration schema, and tests. Commit 13a04a6cf2d4cfe7f6396edc284745e82142e63a. Major bugs fixed: - No high-severity bugs documented for this period in the provided data. Focus this month on feature delivery and stabilization through configuration changes. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Delivered end-to-end Cloud Workload Security (CWS) control enhancements across provider, helm, and operator layers, enabling precise threat detection tuning and safer default deployments. - Improved operational efficiency and governance by enabling granular control over enforcement, reducing alert fatigue and accelerating secure deployments for customers. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Terraform provider development and API/resource updates - Helm chart parameterization and release engineering - Kubernetes operator data model and configuration schema evolution - Cloud Workload Security concepts: silent mode, runtime enforcement, and enforcement toggles - Cross-repo testing considerations and change management for multi-component security features.

Monthly summary for 2025-12: DataDog/terraform-provider-datadog delivered a focused enhancement to Cloud Workload Security (CWS) agent rules, improving support for multiple actions by refining handling of action attributes and adding validation for hash actions. This enables more robust, flexible policy definitions and reduces risk of misconfigurations, delivering business value through stronger security policy expressiveness and easier policy authoring. The work is anchored by a targeted fix commit for the Terraform provider.

September 2025 monthly summary: Delivered security-focused UNIX socket enablement for Datadog components in DataDog helm-charts and datadog-operator, enabling reliable forwarding of security events via writable sysprobe/shared sockets. This cross-repo effort enhanced inter-process communication between the Security Agent and sysprobe, improving telemetry reliability and reducing configuration friction across Kubernetes deployments.

August 2025 monthly summary for DataDog/documentation focusing on Cloud Workload Security (CWS) release 7.68. Delivered alignment of documentation configurations and pull references to the new branch for standard and preview files to ensure accurate release readiness. No major bugs reported this month in this repo. The work streamlined configuration management and improved onboarding for customers and internal teams.

Concise monthly summary for 2024-11 focusing on DataDog/documentation improvements related to Default Security Policy Deployment. Delivered precise documentation corrections to align steps with the actual runtime paths and access requirements, reducing deployment ambiguity and potential misconfigurations.