Jeremy Powell

Jeremy Powell is the Chief Information Security Officer of Sumo Logic, appointed in May 2026.

Career path

Before joining Sumo Logic, Powell served as Chief Technology Officer at Lockthreat, an AI-native governance, risk, and compliance platform.

Earlier in his career he held CISO and CTO roles at Zyston LLC, Verint, and AdTech Global, including a Chief Information Security Officer position at Verint.

He has more than 25 years of experience in the security industry, with Sumo Logic describing his background as spanning 30 years across cloud, networking, datacenter, product development, and security leadership.

Powell holds an executive MBA from the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University and a bachelor of business administration in information technology from Georgia College & State University.

Remit at Sumo Logic

At Sumo Logic, Powell leads the company's enterprise cybersecurity strategy and security culture, evolves its security capabilities, and oversees standards and programs across all products.

He leads the company's global security program, including security operations, application security, and governance, risk, and compliance, and is responsible for protecting the platform customers rely on for security and observability data.

"Sumo Logic's security-by-design approach commitment from the C-Suite drew me to this position," said Jeremy Powell, CISO, Sumo Logic.

Public talks and published work

On the Masters of Data podcast episode Operating at galactic scale: Inside Sumo Logic's agentic security program, Powell discussed the company's agentic security program, in which AI agents handle first-line triage, red-team the company's own defenses, and have cut incident response time by 60%.

While CTO and CISO at Lockthreat, Powell authored the blog post Move Fast and Fix Things: The New GRC Loop, published July 1, 2025.