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Cisco vs Sumo Logic

Cisco sells security products that protect users, devices, apps, and data. Sumo Logic sells a platform that combines telemetry pipeline control, log analytics, SIEM and DojoAI agents. CISO Tribune files both under SIEM. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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Cisco vs Sumo Logic: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
CiscoCisco sells security products that protect users, devices, apps, and data.cisco.comSumo LogicSumo Logic sells a platform that combines telemetry pipeline control, log analytics, SIEM and DojoAI agents.sumologic.com
What it sells
  • Cisco HypershieldA security architecture for data centers that segments workloads and closes exploit gaps at scale.
  • Cisco Secure AccessA secure access service edge (SASE) product that unifies networking and security policy for a distributed workforce.
  • Cisco Duo[1]An identity security product that gives visibility into an organization's identity ecosystem and enforces access policy.
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)A network access control product that uses data from across Cisco's stack to enforce policy, manage endpoints and grant trusted access.
  • Splunk Enterprise Security[1]A security information and event management product that detects and responds to threats using collected logs and events.
  • Cisco Talos[1]A threat intelligence and research organization that supplies threat data used across Cisco's security products.
  • Sumo Logic SIEM[8][14]Sumo Logic SIEM gives security analysts and SOC managers visibility across the enterprise.
  • Cloud SOAR[4][9]Cloud SOAR delivers SOAR functionality in private cloud, single cloud, multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.
  • Sumo Logic DojoAI[10]Sumo Logic DojoAI puts agentic AI to work across security and cloud operations.
  • Logs for Security[2][4][11]Logs for Security collects and analyzes cloud-specific logs.
Categories
Headquarters
San Jose, United States[3][13]Redwood City, United States[3]
Founded
1984[4]Not stated on its pages
Ownership and funding
Public (NASDAQ: CSCO)[1][2][10][12][13]Owned by Francisco Partners since 2023[1][4][5][9][13][19]
Named customers
  • Marriott[5]
  • United States Golf Association[6]
  • Rosen Hotels & Resorts[7]
  • Elon University[8]
Not stated on its pages
Recent news
  • August 12, 2026Cisco reported fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 revenue of $17.3 billion for the period ended July 25, 2026.[2]
  • May 13, 2026Cisco reported fiscal third-quarter 2026 revenue of $15.8 billion for the period ended April 25, 2026.[9]
  • May 4, 2026Cisco announced its intent to acquire Astrix Security, a non-human identity security company, and completed the acquisition on June 29, 2026.[10]
  • April 9, 2026Cisco announced its intent to acquire Galileo Technologies, Inc.[11]
  • November 25, 2025Cisco completed its acquisition of EzDubs, a privately held AI software company based in San Francisco.[13]
  • September 21, 2026Sumo Logic unveiled enhanced Data Pipelines, extending its platform into data pipeline management so customers can control the cost and value of their telemetry.[17]
  • May 21, 2026Sumo Logic announced an integration with the Claude Compliance API that gives security and compliance teams visibility into Claude usage within the platform.[16]
  • May 6, 2026Sumo Logic hired Jeremy Powell as its CISO and Ben Cody as Senior Vice President of Product Management.[18]
  • December 1, 2025Sumo Logic announced new DojoAI agents, including a SOC Analyst Agent, a Knowledge Agent and a Model Context Protocol server.[15]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: listed, seen November 5, 2026[12]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
From its own pages, Cisco sells mainly to enterprises that need to secure hybrid environments spanning data center, cloud, campus, and IoT. Cisco addresses organizations with a global workforce that need secure access for humans, things, and agents under one consistent policy model. Cisco addresses enterprises that want to govern an agentic AI workforce. Security teams are addressed with unified intelligence and operations for visibility across users, systems, and AI agents.From its own pages, Sumo Logic sells to security analysts and SOC managers through its SIEM. Sumo Logic positions one package for small-to-medium-sized DevOps and SecOps teams requiring ad-hoc investigation and troubleshooting. Sumo Logic positions a different package for maturing security teams looking for real-time threat detection, investigation and response. Sumo Logic describes parent org controls for MSSP and other parent org admins managing child orgs. Sumo Logic says its Kubernetes solution works for any setup on premise, AWS, Azure and GCP.
Last verified
October 10, 2026November 2, 2026

Where they overlap

  • Cisco and Sumo Logic are both filed under SIEM.
  • Both are headquartered in the United States.

Where they differ, field by field

  • Cisco's primary category is Firewalls and NGFW; Sumo Logic's is SIEM.
  • Cisco is also filed under SASE and SSE and Network access control. Sumo Logic is also filed under Security data lakes and pipelines.
  • Cisco lists Cisco Hypershield, Cisco Secure Access, Cisco Duo, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Splunk Enterprise Security and 1 more. Sumo Logic lists Sumo Logic SIEM, Cloud SOAR, Sumo Logic DojoAI and Logs for Security.
  • Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, United States. Sumo Logic is headquartered in Redwood City, United States.
  • Cisco was founded in 1984.
  • Cisco is a public company listed on NASDAQ as CSCO. Sumo Logic is owned by Francisco Partners, since 2023.
  • Cisco publicly names Marriott, United States Golf Association, Rosen Hotels & Resorts and Elon University.

What it sells: Sumo Logic

What Sumo Logic SIEM does[8][14]
Sumo Logic SIEM parses, maps and creates normalized records from structured and unstructured data. Sumo Logic UEBA baselines user and entity behavior. Detection-as-Code support helps security teams version and manage SIEM rules in GitHub.
What Cloud SOAR does[4][9]
In the War Room, security analysts get a complete, chronological and detailed picture of a specific incident process. Sumo Logic offers hundreds of out-of-the-box actions and playbooks.
What Sumo Logic DojoAI does[10]
Mobot lets users talk to their data in plain language. The SOC Analyst Agent automatically analyzes alerts, evaluates related activity and delivers an evidence-backed verdict. Sumo Logic MCP Server connects external AI clients to Log Analytics and SIEM.
What Logs for Security does[2][4][11]
Logs for Security integrates logs from AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. Sumo Logic offers pre-built PCI compliance dashboards.

Questions about Cisco and Sumo Logic

What do Cisco and Sumo Logic sell?
Cisco sells Cisco Hypershield, Cisco Secure Access, Cisco Duo, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Splunk Enterprise Security and 1 more. Sumo Logic sells Sumo Logic SIEM, Cloud SOAR, Sumo Logic DojoAI and Logs for Security.
Are Cisco and Sumo Logic in the same category?
They share SIEM. Cisco's primary category is Firewalls and NGFW and Sumo Logic's is SIEM.
Where are Cisco and Sumo Logic headquartered?
Cisco is headquartered in San Jose, United States. Sumo Logic is headquartered in Redwood City, United States.
When were Cisco and Sumo Logic founded?
Cisco was founded in 1984.
Who owns Cisco and Sumo Logic?
Cisco is a public company listed on NASDAQ as CSCO. Sumo Logic is owned by Francisco Partners, since 2023.
Which customers do Cisco and Sumo Logic name?
Cisco publicly names Marriott, United States Golf Association, Rosen Hotels & Resorts and Elon University.
Who are Cisco and Sumo Logic sold to?
From its own pages, Cisco sells mainly to enterprises that need to secure hybrid environments spanning data center, cloud, campus, and IoT. From its own pages, Sumo Logic sells to security analysts and SOC managers through its SIEM.
What have Cisco and Sumo Logic announced recently?
August 12, 2026: Cisco reported fiscal fourth-quarter 2026 revenue of $17.3 billion for the period ended July 25, 2026. September 21, 2026: Sumo Logic unveiled enhanced Data Pipelines, extending its platform into data pipeline management so customers can control the cost and value of their telemetry.

About Cisco

Cisco sells security products that protect users, devices, apps, and data. Cisco describes the offering as an open, network-native platform built to handle today's threats and enable the agentic enterprise at scale.

Cisco says its security applies policy, inspection, and enforcement at every connection. Cisco also describes unified data for earlier detection and faster response, powered by AI-driven context.

For cloud protection, Cisco describes securing modern cloud and AI apps at runtime with segmentation that keeps up with change, vulnerability shielding to close the patching gap, and protection for AI workloads. Cisco Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE) is used to find malicious flows in encrypted traffic and to decrypt without sacrificing performance. Cisco says it stops zero days using Snort ML and Talos Threat Intelligence. Cisco offers distributed, optimized enforcement with unified management across a hybrid enterprise, and the same enforcement is described for data center, cloud, campus, and IoT environments.

Cisco describes a security architecture designed to defend modern, AI-scale data centers. Cisco says the architecture closes exploit gaps, segments everywhere, and self-qualifies updates and changes.

For workforce protection, Cisco describes secure access for humans, things, and agents with one consistent policy model. Cisco offers a cloud-native security service edge (SSE) that includes digital experience monitoring. Cisco offers a single-vendor SASE that unifies networking and security for a global workforce. Cisco offers identity security for the workforce that helps see across the entire identity ecosystem. Cisco offers multicloud NAC with zero trust, which uses intel from across the stack to enforce policy, manage endpoints, and deliver trusted access.

For threat intelligence and response, Cisco describes detecting, investigating, and responding faster with unified intelligence and operations. Cisco says this gives a team continuous visibility across users, systems, and AI agents in a single platform. Cisco describes unifying the data fabric, analytics, tooling and AI to automate the mundane, clarify the complex, and proactively mitigate risk.

Cisco also addresses agentic AI. Cisco describes safeguarding the agentic workforce against malicious attacks and data leakage. Cisco says it integrates identity, access, and behavioral controls to govern an agentic AI workforce and reduce risk. At RSAC 2026, Jeetu Patel, Cisco's President and Chief Product Officer, challenged the industry to fundamentally reimagine security.

Cisco Services provide expert guidance to plan, design, implement, operate, and optimize an IT environment. Cisco says support for Cisco Security products is available through the Cisco support hub, which provides product-specific resources, documentation, downloads, and expert assistance.

Cisco on the record

Sources

Cisco full record

  1. [1]Security Products and Solutions for Cloud and Workforce Protection - CiscoCisco · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  2. [2]Cisco reports fourth quarter earningsCisco · newsroom.cisco.com · published August 12, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]IndexCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Cisco systems reaches agreement with state city on major land purchaseCisco · newsroom.cisco.com · published April 17, 1996 · Tier A
  5. [5]MarriottCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  6. [6]cisco.comCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Rosen hotels and resortsCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Elon universityCisco · cisco.com · undated page, accessed October 10, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Cisco reports third quarter earningsCisco · newsroom.cisco.com · published May 13, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Cisco announces intent to acquire astrix securityCisco · blogs.cisco.com · published May 4, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Making AI Trustworthy and Observable in Real-Time: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire GalileoCisco Blogs · published April 9, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Cisco Security Services Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2G2 · undated page, accessed October 23, 2026 · Tier C
  13. [13]Cisco completes EzDubs acquisition - CiscoCisco · published November 25, 2025 · Tier A

Sumo Logic full record

  1. [1]Francisco partners completes acquisition of sumo logicSumo Logic · sumologic.com · published May 12, 2023 · Tier A
  2. [2]sumologic.comSumo Logic · sumologic.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  3. [3]ContactSumo Logic · sumologic.com · undated page, accessed September 27, 2026 · Tier A
  4. [4]Cloud log management, monitoring, SIEM tools Sumo LogicSumo Logic · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier A
  5. [5]Sumo Logic Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & FeaturesG2 · undated page, accessed October 28, 2026 · Tier C
  6. [6]PricingSumo Logic · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  7. [7]Who we are and what we doSumo Logic · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  8. [8]Sumo Logic SIEM | Real-time detection, AI-powered responseSumo Logic · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  9. [9]Cloud SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response)Sumo Logic · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  10. [10]Sumo Logic DojoAI - Meet the AI agents that detect and resolve threats so you can focus on the work that matters most.Sumo Logic · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  11. [11]Logs for security - secure, comply, and respond with an integrated cloud security platformSumo Logic · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  12. [12]Application reliability solutionSumo Logic · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  13. [13]What's newSumo Logic · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  14. [14]Professional servicesSumo Logic · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier A
  15. [15]Sumo Logic Expands DojoAI to Transform Security Investigations with New Agentic AI CapabilitiesSumo Logic · published December 1, 2025 · Tier A
  16. [16]Sumo Logic Brings Comprehensive Visibility Across Claude Ecosystem via New Integration with the Claude Compliance APISumo Logic · published May 21, 2026 · Tier A
  17. [17]Sumo Logic enhances Data Pipelines, advancing its AI-first platform to lower observability and security TCOSumo Logic · published September 21, 2026 · Tier A
  18. [18]Sumo Logic Expands Leadership Team with New CISO and SVP of Product ManagementSumo Logic · published May 6, 2026 · Tier A
  19. [19]Sumo Logic Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer InsightsGartner Peer Insights · undated page, accessed November 3, 2026 · Tier C

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