Driving operational efficiency with Sumo Logic

Sumo Logic parses logs into a schema, and raw logs undergo field extraction in the core platform, streamlining queries. SIEM log mapping aligns fields across platforms for unified search, facilitating analysts to correlate events and extract insights seamlessly from structured and unstructured data.

Google Security Operations, formerly Google Chronicle, employs a proprietary Unified Data Model (UDM) schema requiring logs to be pre-parsed into a fixed format. Raw logs stored in Google Cloud Storage (GCS) lack field extraction rules, forcing SOC analysts to use complex regular expressions for searches. This setup lacks support for statistical operations or correlation between raw and parsed data.

Sumo Logic’s Insight Engine combats alert fatigue by integrating with the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Using an adaptive Signal clustering algorithm, it automatically groups related Signals, streamlining alert triage. When aggregated risk surpasses a predefined threshold, it generates actionable Insights, focusing attention on the most critical threats.

Google SecOps lacks sophisticated risk-based alerting. Without advanced correlations and customizable risk scoring, SecOps cannot effectively prioritize alerts, resulting in high-risk threats not being addressed promptly, which increases the potential for security breaches. 

Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM has prebuilt apps that offer broader security coverage. These apps often come with detection rules already mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and compliance content, ensuring coverage of known threats and misconfigurations out of the box and reducing blind spots.

Google SecOps lacks built-in security content — no dashboards, detection rules, or click-to-install apps, resulting in longer deployment times, higher professional services costs, and slower time to value.

The unified UI across Sumo Logic’s SIEM, logs, and automation reduces alert fatigue through streamlined workflows and enriched, actionable alerts powered by real-time threat intelligence aggregated from multiple trusted sources—including custom-curated feeds.

Google SecOps provides fundamental SOC operation capabilities but falls short in effectively managing workflow coordination across threat detection, investigation, and response phases. SOC teams often struggle with handling large volumes of query responses without access to real-time, actionable alerts that are crucial for timely interventions.