Kui Jia, Sumo Logic's Vice President of Engineering and Head of AI, shares how their AWS-powered AI agents transform chaotic security investigations into streamlined workflows.
Topics Include:
- Kui Jia leads AI Engineering at Sumo Logic
- SREs and SOC analysts work under chaotic, high-pressure conditions
- Teams constantly switch between different vendor tools and platforms
- Investigation requires quick hypothesis formation and complex query writing
- Sumo Logic processes petabytes of data daily across enterprises
- Company serves 2,000+ enterprise customers for 15 years
- Platform focuses on observability and cybersecurity use cases
- Investigation journey: discover, diagnose, decide, act, learn phases
- Data flows from ingestion through analytics to human insights
- Traditional workflow relies heavily on tribal domain knowledge
- Senior engineers create queries that juniors struggle to understand
- War room situations demand immediate answers, not learning curves
- Context switching between tools wastes time and creates friction
- Multiple AI generations deployed: ML anomaly detection to GenAI
- Agentic AI enables reasoning, planning, tools, and evaluation capabilities
- Mo Copilot launched at AWS re:Invent as AI agent suite
- Natural language converts high-level questions into Sumo queries
- System provides intelligent autocomplete and multi-turn conversations
- Insight agents summarize logs and security signals automatically
- Knowledge integration combines foundation models with proprietary metadata
- AI generates playbooks and remediation scripts for automated actions
- Three-tier architecture: Infrastructure, AI Tooling, and Application layers
- Built on AWS Bedrock with Nova models for performance
- Focus on reusable infrastructure and AI tooling components
- Data differentiation more important than AI model selection
- Golden datasets and contextualized metadata are development challenges
- Guardrails and evaluation frameworks critical for enterprise deployment
- AI observability enables debugging and performance monitoring
- Enterprise agents achievable within one year development timeline
- Future vision: multiple AI agents collaborating with human investigators
Participants:
- Kui Jia – Vice President of AI Engineering, Head of AI, Sumo Logic
Further Links:
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