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Everything you need to know for a career in cybersecurity

So, you want to be a cybersecurity analyst. With the rise in high-profile data breaches, privacy concerns and rapid technological advancements, there’s a greater demand for cybersecurity analysts now. And the demand for cybersecurity analysts is only expected to grow. But before you get too far into pursuing this job, let’s look into the basics of this profession. Below, we answer the most frequently asked questions about becoming a cybersecurity analyst.

AI across the security lifecycle

For nearly a decade, the security industry has used machine learning to solve detection. By feeding it enough logs and determining abnormal behaviors, it found the threats that rules-based systems miss. This delivered sharper anomaly detection, fewer false positives, and UEBA is now essential. In fact, threat detection and analytics account for close to 44% of total SIEM spend, the single largest use case by far. Using machine learning for detection was only the start.

Stop building security dashboards nobody reads

On this episode of Masters of Data, we dig into one of data's most contested formats: the dashboard. We explore why so many dashboards get built and never opened, tracing the shift from in-person SOC culture (big screens, shared visibility, immediate feedback) to the remote-work era of folders full of charts no one reviews. The conversation covers North Star metrics, the tension between practitioner and leadership dashboards, and the uniquely tricky problem of security metrics that can look green while a threat actor has quiet dwell time in your environment.

EU data sovereignty and security operations: how Sumo Logic solves both at once

EU organizations in finance, healthcare, telco, and government face a real tension: keep the business running or satisfy an ever-growing stack of data regulations. Most end up choosing one over the other. Sumo Logic and AWS just changed that. At Infosecurity Europe 2026, Bill Peterson, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Sumo Logic, sat down with Sean Martin from ITSPmagazine to break down Sumo Logic's integration with the AWS European Sovereign Cloud — and what it means for security and operations teams operating in the EU. In this interview, Bill covers.

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On this episode of Masters of Data, Adam White and David Girvin dig into Sumo Logic's freshly launched compliance apps for Claude, ChatGPT, and LiteLLM, and why your IT team will want to pay attention before the token bill arrives. We unpack how enterprises can move beyond the "AI black hole" era of shadow IT and actually get eyes on who is using what, how much it is costing, and whether any of it is moving the needle.

AI is a NEW Gold Rush But Token Burn is STUPID! #podcast #cybersecurity

On this episode of Masters of Data, Adam White and David Girvin dig into Sumo Logic's freshly launched compliance apps for Claude, ChatGPT, and LiteLLM, and why your IT team will want to pay attention before the token bill arrives. We unpack how enterprises can move beyond the "AI black hole" era of shadow IT and actually get eyes on who is using what, how much it is costing, and whether any of it is moving the needle.

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On this episode of Masters of Data, Adam White and David Girvin dig into Sumo Logic's freshly launched compliance apps for Claude, ChatGPT, and LiteLLM, and why your IT team will want to pay attention before the token bill arrives. We unpack how enterprises can move beyond the "AI black hole" era of shadow IT and actually get eyes on who is using what, how much it is costing, and whether any of it is moving the needle.