The marriage of development and operations gave us DevOps, and now the happy twosome has become a threesome as security slips into the mix, creating development-security-operations, known as DevSecOps. As ever smarter cyberattackers bypass perimeter fence security solutions, data analytics companies bake security solutions into platforms and switch from reactive to proactive monitoring and troubleshooting.

Announcing a cloud security information and event management solution built for DevSecOps during its Illuminate event in San Francisco last week was cloud-native, machine data analytics platform Sumo Logic Inc.

“Just a couple weeks after we went live [with Sumo Logic], we had a distributed denial of service attack on one of our properties,” said Erik Rogneby (pictured), senior manager of infrastructure management at the USA Today Network. “Sumo Logic played a key role in that rapid response … really investigating the source and getting it locked down.”

Rogneby spoke with Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Sumo Logic Illuminate event. They discussed why USA Today adopted Sumo Logic and how the media company uses the log data and security analytics platform. (* Disclosure below.)

Flexible and SaaS-y security analysis

Frustrated with a cloud platform that was slowing processes for internal customers by “opening tickets and asking for maintenance windows for plug-ins or change,” USA Today turned to Sumo Logic for a multi-tenant, software-as-a-service security analytics solution.

“We really needed something that was SaaS from the beginning,” Rogneby said.

USA Today is in the process of migrating workloads to Google, as well as increasing containerization and use of the Kubernetes container orchestration management system. Sumo Logic’s open-source ethos made integration easy.

“They have a great chef cookbook for deploying their collector and configuring sources and everything, and we leveraged that heavily and then customized it,” Rogneby said. “It’s really about delivering for our internal customers and making it seamless and easy. They don’t have to think about it. Their containers log and this thing just picks them up and ships them and they know where to find them.”

Identifying security engineering as a key stakeholder in the choice of cloud platform, Rogneby and his team let security engineers drive the vetting process for Sumo Logic. “That was a key win for us,” he said.

The entire migration process from the existing cloud platform to Sumo Logic was done in approximately three months, with Rogneby’s team working in two-week sprints. “When we actually ended up cutting over, it was a non-event. No big whoop,” Rogneby concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Sumo Logic Illuminate event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Sumo Logic Illuminate. Neither Sumo Logic Inc., the event sponsor, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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