Sumo Logic Threat Labs

Also during RSA, Sumo Logic unveiled Sumo Logic Threat Labs, a threat research and security detection unit. The Threat Labs unit is among the expanded services and tools from Sumo Logic to help customers modernize security operations and achieve greater cyber-resilience.

The unit’s team is staffed with domain experts with backgrounds in forensics, incident response and red/blue teaming, as well as offensive and defensive cyber operations in the U.S. military and intelligence services. The unit will also play a larger role in contributing advanced detection logic and best practices to the security community to help collectivize the defense.

Lynne Doherty is Sumo Logic’s president of worldwide field operations.

“Sumo Logic is the only cloud-native observability and security solution on the market, so this is an important event with us as we meet with customers and partners to talk to them about how we can help solve their problems,” she said. “Our customers are facing a real challenge … data is growing faster than their budgets as they move to cloud and cloud-native, and they modernize their applications. And so with our solution, it allows customers … to manage both the growth of the data, but keep their budgets in line.”

Sumo Logic is attracting new partners, Doherty said.

“And I just hired a new channel leader, Timm Hoyt, and so for partners, that’s absolutely going to be something we’re doubling down on,” she said. “We’ve made significant investments in our channel and our partner resources. So for us that offers our partners an opportunity as we expand our partner programs and we make Sumo Logic easier to work with … as well as the most profitable company to work with for partners through programs that we have … 

“As all customers are modernizing their applications, it becomes that much more important to have a partner that can bring it all together for them, look at where threats are, their data, their metrics and their logs, and how all of that is going to come together in a unified solution — because that’s what you need to have a secure environment,” she added.