Ep196: Agentic AI and the Future of Cloud Security with Sumo Logic

Sumo Logic's VP of Security Strategy reveals how a ground-up agentic framework transformed their platform, and why clean data and autonomous agents are rewriting the rules of cloud security.

Topics Include:

• Sumo Logic is a cloud analytics platform ingesting data from complex IT stacks.
• Built on AWS from the start, leveraging microservices for scalable solutions.
• Early AI efforts produced a natural language query co-pilot for security data.
• Bolting AI onto existing platforms proved brittle and one-dimensional.
• Customer feedback drove a decision to redesign AI from the ground up.
• The Dojo AI framework unifies purpose-built agents across the entire platform.
• New agents include a SOC analyst agent, knowledge agent, and MCP server.
• New frontier models on Bedrock give the whole platform an instant brain transplant.
• Autonomous agents require rethinking security controls beyond traditional programmatic guardrails.
• Federal and global customers demand rigorous, levelled-up security across all regions.
• Clean, normalized data proved the biggest unlock for reliable AI query results.
• Agent-to-agent communication and MCP will define the next era of AI platforms.

Participants:

• Chas Clawson – Vice President, Security Strategy, Sumo Logic

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