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Michael Bentley

Michael Bentley

Staff Product Manager - Behavior AI and Threat Intelligence | Datadog

Michael Bentley is a Staff Product Manager at Datadog, focused on Behavior AI and Threat Intelligence. His expertise includes distributed attacks, compromising and defending cloud environments, and malware analysis at scale.

Michael holds a Bachelor of Arts and Applied Sciences with a focus on Digital Forensics and was a GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA Gold).

His work centers on solving day-in-the-life challenges for Security Operations teams and Incident Responders, with a focus on delivering practical capabilities that reduce alert fatigue, improve triage speed, and surface high-signal insights in noisy environments.

One of his favorite early roles was working the night shift in a Security Operations Center at a Managed Security Services Provider, where he built his foundation responding to alerts in real time and managing thousands of IDS deployments.