In this episode of Masters of Data, We sat down with Jeremy Powell, CISO at Sumo Logic, to unpack how AI is reshaping security operations from the SOC floor to the boardroom. Jeremy walks us through Sumo Logic’s agentic security program, where AI agents now handle first-line triage, red-team the company’s own defenses, and cut incident response time by 60%. We also get into what it means to lead a security team when execution is no longer the bottleneck and empathy becomes a core leadership skill. This one is for security leaders trying to move AI agents out of pilot mode and into real production workflows.
0:00:00 – Introduction and welcoming Jeremy Powell
0:00:43 – Jeremy’s 30 years in security and infrastructure
0:02:06 – What traditionally keeps CISOs up at night
0:04:39 – Why AI makes threats a capability problem, not a volume problem
0:06:00 – Running SecOps like an agile, agentic organization
0:10:23 – Borrowing Anthropic’s “impossible task” playbook
0:14:33 – Empathy as a core skill under CISO pressure
0:17:45 – How AI is transforming compliance and SOC triage
0:23:23 – Red-teaming Sumo’s own agents at machine speed
0:27:39 – What’s coming at Black Hat
0:35:08 – Wrap-up and thanks