John Visneski named Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Sumo Logic

Sumo Logic named John Visneski as its Chief Information Security Officer. Visneski previously held cybersecurity leadership positions at The Pokémon Company International, Accolade, MGM Studios, and most recently at Amazon after it acquired MGM, and also served in the US Air Force.

According to the release, Visneski is responsible across the business for data protection, compliance, governance risk management, engineering and security operations. The release credits Visneski with over 15 years of experience in information security across industries including healthcare, entertainment and the federal government. The company announced his appointment together with that of Lyndsey Filantres as Senior Vice President of Growth, according to the release.

The release says that most recently he led subsidiary security and integration efforts for Amazon after it acquired MGM Studios. According to the release, he was CISO at Accolade and built privacy and security programs at The Pokémon Company International. The release says he has protected products, applications, customer platforms and corporate IT systems and has developed data privacy strategies. The GlobeNewswire release describes Accolade as a publicly traded digital healthcare company, where Visneski held a leadership role before MGM Studios. That release says he began his career working for the U.S. Air Force in cyber operations, including as an advisor on cyber to the Air Force Chief of Staff and Secretary. Sumo Logic says it worked with Pokemon on a project whose goal was to implement security automation and to build in security and governance from the start.

SecurityWeek, reporting the appointment, describes Sumo Logic as a log analytics platform. The company says it analyzes and unifies enterprise data through a single AI-powered cloud-native log analytics platform that turns the data into actionable insights. According to the release, Sumo Logic states its mission as making digital experiences more secure, reliable and faster.