This Sumo employee spotlight features Julia Hoffmann, Sr. Product and Privacy Counsel, who talks about the importance of regulatory laws when it comes to product development.

In honor of Women’s History Month we are taking a look at some of the women that changed the technology world and paved the way for others.

The path to success in tech can take many different forms. Finding inspiration and mentorship along the way can really make a difference in the road you take. Learn how five female leaders found their way in this recap from the Women of Sumo session at Illuminate 2022.

This Sumo employee spotlight features Bryan Liberator, senior director of investor relations who talks about his passion for working with the investor community and how Sumo has given him exposure to multiple different paths in his career.

This Sumo employee spotlight features Colin Fernandes, Senior Director of Global Market Development who talks about the opportunity for Sumo Logic in the EMEA region and why Beyonce inspires him.

This Sumo employee spotlight features Oliver Gompf, Sales Director based in Germany, who shares why the opportunity for Sumo Logic in the DACH market is significant and ripe for the taking.

If you’re looking for inspiration on how to harness the power of your data to deliver reliable and secure digital experiences, check out the top five reasons you need to attend Sumo Logic’s Illuminate virtual user community event.

This Sumo employee spotlight features Libby Christensen, a principal program manager who shares the lessons learned from driving product launches, why diversity makes for better team collaboration and more.

Learn how Rick Jury, a Sr. Technical Account Manager for Sumo Logic went from being a happy customer to an employee in a quest to delight other customers.

When Sumo Logic bought DFLabs it inherited not only a powerful SOAR platform but a great team of employees. Learn how one software engineer in Macedonia found himself at home at Sumo Logic.

Sumo Logic invited Dr. Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn to discuss the Asian experience at work and how to foster greater inclusion. Learn more!

Sumo Spotlight highlights Sumo Logic employees from around the globe. This spotlight features employee John Merideth, a technical trainer based in Bedford, NH.

Sumo Spotlight highlights Sumo Logic employees from around the globe. This Sumo Spotlight features Supriya Desai, senior director of people, based in Redwood City, CA.

Sumo Logic's senior security engineer Stefan Tapp shares his love for working with customers to modernize their security programs, and why he likes working at Sumo Logic.

In honor of International Women’s Day, we are revisiting our Women of Sumo panel discussion from our Illuminate user conference back in October. The topic? Practical advice for how women can advance their careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

The countdown is on to our 5th annual Illuminate user conference September 28-29, 2021! This year we are once again offering a virtual experience to keep everyone healthy and safe.

At Sumo Logic’s 4th annual Illuminate user conference, our CCO Aaron Feigin sat down with Lisa Hammit, an expert in artificial intelligence, big data and executive leadership, to discuss how fast things are changing within boardrooms of global business.

The countdown is on to our 4th annual Illuminate user conference October 6-7, 2020! This year we are going virtual to keep everyone healthy and safe, and while we will miss seeing all of our customers and partners, we are excited to host the premier education platform for machine data analytics to help businesses accelerate digital transformation and customer experiences.

It has never been a more challenging (or better) time to be a service provider for managed security services. With an estimated 1,200+ vendors selling a variety of security solutions today, businesses are looking for help to manage the complexities of supporting these technologies while protecting critical data. According to Gartner, the managed security service (MSS) market is expected to grow to nearly $50 billion by 2023, and last year 32% of organizations increased their use of outside services due to shortages in available resources.

Worries over monitoring and managing the the zettabytes of data the Internet of Things will produce this year and beyond loom like dark mountains on the minds of IT decision makers. But equipped with the right tools and partnerships, those mountains can be mined for business intelligence that drives golden results.

DevSecOps has been a hot topic among security professionals. According to DevSecOps.com, the purpose and intent of DevSecOps is “to build on the mindset that everyone is responsible for security with the goal of safely distributing security decisions at speed and scale to those who hold the highest level of context without sacrificing the safety required.” But the road to DevSecOps isn’t necessarily easy. Sumo Logic’s VP of Security and Compliance George Gerchow outlines six steps you can take to get on the path to DevSecOps. Think code analysis, change management, compliance monitoring and more.

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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is one of the hottest topics in IT security around the globe. The European Union (EU) regulation gives people more say over what companies can do with their data, while making data protection rules more or less identical throughout the EU. Although this regulation originated in the EU, its impact is global; any organization that does business using EU citizens’ data must be compliant. With the May 2018 deadline looming, IT security professionals worldwide are scrambling to ensure they’re ready (and avoid the strict fines for non-compliance and security breaches). In the video below, Sumo Logic VP of Security and Compliance George Gerchow offers three ways to get you GDPR-ready in no time. 1. Establish a Privacy Program Establishing a privacy program allows you to set a baseline for privacy standards. Once you have a privacy program in place, when new regulations like GDPR are released, all you have to do is fill in the gaps between where you are and where you need to be. 2. Designate a Data Protection Officer This is a critical part of complying with GDPR—and a great way to build sound data security principles into your organization. Under the GDPR requirements, the Data Protection Officer: Must report directly to the highest level of management Can be a staff member or an external service provider Must be appointed on the basis of professional qualities, particularly expert knowledge on data protection law and practices Must be provided with appropriate resources to carry out their tasks and maintain their expert knowledge Must not carry out any other tasks that could result in a conflict of interest 3. Take Inventory of Customer Data and Protections Before GDPR compliance becomes mandatory, take a thorough inventory of where your customer data is housed and how it is protected. Make sure you understand the journey of customer data from start to finish. Keep in mind that the data is only as secure as the systems you use to manage it. As you dissect the flow of data, take note of critical systems that the data depends upon. Make sure the data is secured at every step using proper methodologies like encryption. Bonus Tip: Arrange Third-Party GDPR Validation Between now and May 2018, you still start to see contracts coming through that ask if you are GDPR-compliant. When the deadline rolls around, there will be two groups of organizations out there: Companies that have verification of GDPR compliance to share with prospective clients. Companies that say they are GDPR compliant and want clients to take their word for it. Being in the first group gives your company a head start. Conduct a thorough self-assessment (and document the results) or use a third-party auditor to provide proof of your GDPR compliance. Learn More About GDPR Compliance Ready to get started with GDPR? George Gerchow, the Sumo Logic VP of Security and Compliance, shares more tips for cutting through the vendor FUD surrounding GDPR.

Think you know everything there is to know about using AWS S3? In this video Sumo Logic’s Chief Architect Stefan Zier offers tips you may not know.

We always love hearing how customers are using Sumo Logic. Sometimes it’s a unique use case we never thought Sumo would be used for such as an IoT or billing project, and other times it’s when the lightbulb goes off for an organization on the valuable insights and intelligence that log data and analytics can provide. Such is the case for OpenX, an adtech company that develops advertising marketplaces. “Put simply, SumoLogic has saved our butts multiple times by helping us illuminate system behavior and pinpoint issues quickly. It is an indispensable tool for the people at OpenX to continue being unreasonably awesome at building and operating a top-rated technology stack.” You can’t get better validation than this and it’s what we want for all of our customers. To learn more about how OpenX is leveraging the power of Sumo Logic read their blog.

If you are looking for application logging solutions, the “direct-to-cloud” approach is usually your best option. This approach however, is not necessarily a panacea for all of your logging and monitoring needs. Depending on your business requirements around logging and monitoring, this initial approach may be all you ever need. Or, you may find out later that your needs have changed, and you need to modify your approach to increase reliability, or to capture full stack logs. Sumo Logic is committed to making it easy to capture all of your application data. If you are running on AWS, your AWS specific logs from Cloudtrail, S3, Elastic Load Balancing and many more will most likely end up in Amazon’s Cloudwatch Logs. The solution Amazon provides for distributing these logs for analysis is Amazon Kinesis. With help from the Sumo community, Kinesis is also getting the Sumo treatment. For developers already using Kinesis to stream their logs, they can now also stream to Sumo through the Kinesis connector. If you are not yet using Kinesis and are instead using something like S3 to store your AWS logs, consider making the switch. Storing your logs in a file system like S3 increases the time it takes for other applications to collect use and analyze those logs. And let’s face it, as long as it remains un-analyzed, that treasure of data is basically a useless waste of storage space. Instead, Kinesis treats your logs as a continuous data stream which allows near real time analysis instead of forcing you to wait to see your data. Logs from the Kinesis stream are transformed into JSON by the new Sumo connector and all fields can be conveniently extracted by Sumo's JSON auto-parser. The community project can be found here on GitHub. To get the most Sumo functionality out of your technology stack, visit our GitHub page to see all open-source projects: ready and in-progress. If you would like to see more Sumo support for your technologies, come join the community help us out!

If you are looking for application logging solutions, the “direct-to-cloud” approach is usually your best option. This approach however, is not necessarily a panacea for all of your logging and monitoring needs. Depending on your business requirements around logging and monitoring, this initial approach may be all you ever need. Or, you may find out later that your needs have changed, and you need to modify your approach to increase reliability, or to capture full stack logs. Sumo Logic is committed to making it easy to capture all of your application data. If you are running on AWS, your AWS specific logs from Cloudtrail, S3, Elastic Load Balancing and many more will most likely end up in Amazon’s Cloudwatch Logs. The solution Amazon provides for distributing these logs for analysis is Amazon Kinesis. With help from the Sumo community, Kinesis is also getting the Sumo treatment. For developers already using Kinesis to stream their logs, they can now also stream to Sumo through the Kinesis connector. If you are not yet using Kinesis and are instead using something like S3 to store your AWS logs, consider making the switch. Storing your logs in a file system like S3 increases the time it takes for other applications to collect use and analyze those logs. And let’s face it, as long as it remains un-analyzed, that treasure of data is basically a useless waste of storage space. Instead, Kinesis treats your logs as a continuous data stream which allows near real time analysis instead of forcing you to wait to see your data. Logs from the Kinesis stream are transformed into JSON by the new Sumo connector and all fields can be conveniently extracted by Sumo's JSON auto-parser. The community project can be found here on GitHub. To get the most Sumo functionality out of your technology stack, visit our GitHub page to see all open-source projects: ready and in-progress. If you would like to see more Sumo support for your technologies, come join the community help us out!

If you are looking for application logging solutions, the “direct-to-cloud” approach is usually your best option. This approach however, is not necessarily a panacea for all of your logging and monitoring needs. Depending on your business requirements around logging and monitoring, this initial approach may be all you ever need. Or, you may find out later that your needs have changed, and you need to modify your approach to increase reliability, or to capture full stack logs. Sumo Logic is committed to making it easy to capture all of your application data. If you are running on AWS, your AWS specific logs from Cloudtrail, S3, Elastic Load Balancing and many more will most likely end up in Amazon’s Cloudwatch Logs. The solution Amazon provides for distributing these logs for analysis is AWS Kinesis. With help from the Sumo community, Kinesis is also getting the Sumo treatment. For developers already using Kinesis to stream their logs, they can now also stream to Sumo through the Kinesis connector. If you are not yet using Kinesis and are instead using something like S3 to store your AWS logs, consider making the switch. Storing your logs in a file system like S3 increases the time it takes for other applications to collect use and analyze those logs. And let’s face it, as long as it remains un-analyzed, that treasure of data is basically a useless waste of storage space. Instead, Kinesis treats your logs as a continuous data stream which allows near real time analysis instead of forcing you to wait to see your data. Logs from the Kinesis stream are transformed into JSON by the new Sumo connector and all fields can be conveniently extracted by Sumo's JSON auto-parser. The community project can be found here on GitHub. To get the most Sumo functionality out of your technology stack, visit our GitHub page to see all open-source projects: ready and in-progress. If you would like to see more Sumo support for your technologies, come join the community help us out!

I always love talking to customers and hearing how they’re using Sumo Logic to help solve challenges within their organizations, particularly those that in the middle of their journey to moving workloads and data to the cloud. Without fail, I’m always surprised to learn how hard the day-to-day was for IT teams, and how by taking a cloud-native approach to managing log data analytics, they’re able to open up a whole new world of insights and intelligence that really impacts their business. I recently spoke with one of our newest customers in the Asia Pacific region, carsales. One of Australia’s leading automotive classifieds website (think of the equivalent of CarFax, TraderOnline or CraigsList here in the U.S.), carsales services both consumers and more than 6,000 dealers across the country. As you can imagine, the company experiences a huge amount of website traffic and processes more than 450 million searches and over 12.5 billion image downloads. As a growing enterprise, carsales had long been looking to transition from a legacy data center to the cloud. Interestingly this journey became a priority when their executive team asked about their disaster recovery plan. “We originally started moving our infrastructure to the cloud because our site traffic varies greatly throughout the day – no one day is the same. The cloud is perfect for allowing us to adjust our footprint as necessary. It also made it easy for us to develop a solid disaster recovery plan without having to pay and manage separate data centers” said Michael Ridgway, director of engineering for Ryvuss at carsales.com. The carsales team quickly discovered that retrieving logs manually from machines wasn’t practical so they started looking for a log management solution. One of their non-negotiable requirements for this solution was to avoid managing any additional infrastructure or software. Since moving to Sumo Logic, the carsales team is now in the driver’s seat and has gained operational visibility across their entire infrastructure stack and obtained new insights into application health and performance “With Sumo Logic we’ve just scratched the surface. Our entire development team now has real-time access to our log applications and can see trending metrics over time. As a result, we can now put the power in the hands of the people who can actually fix the problem. Our average response times have decreased from hours to minutes and we can detect and resolve issues before they have potential to impact our customers.” For more information on how carsales is getting value from Sumo Logic check out the full case study.