Jeremy Powell

Sumo Logic appointed Jeremy Powell as CISO. Powell previously served as CTO at Lockthreat and held CISO and CTO roles at Zyston LLC, Verint, and AdTech Global.

According to the release, Powell will lead the security culture and enterprise cybersecurity strategy at Sumo Logic, evolve its security capabilities and oversee standards and programs for all its products. He is also responsible, according to the page, for protecting the platform on which customers rely as their source of truth for observability and security data. Sumo Logic says Powell leads its global security program, which includes application security, security operations, and governance, risk, and compliance. According to the release, Sumo Logic brought Powell in as CISO to help secure its AI-ready platform.

The release says Powell has spent over 25 years in the security industry. Earlier in his career, the page says, Powell held senior leadership roles in networking, security and cloud infrastructure at several enterprise organizations. Sumo Logic says Powell brings 30 years of experience in security leadership, product development, datacenter, networking and cloud. Sumo Logic says that before joining it, Powell was Chief Technology Officer at LockThreat, a governance, risk, and compliance platform that is AI-native. Sumo Logic says Powell holds an executive MBA from Kennesaw State University's Michael J. Coles College of Business and a Georgia College & State University bachelor of business administration in information technology.

The release says Sumo Logic, Inc. unifies operational and critical security data through its intelligent platform. According to the release, Sumo Logic combines log analytics and agentic AI-powered SIEM in one platform built to detect, investigate and resolve modern challenges.