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July 31, 2025
For a security analyst, the day begins and ends in the Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM. It’s the central hub for unifying security and observability data, designed to turn a firehose of enterprise-wide events into clear, actionable Insights. But the platform’s AI-driven analytics are only as good as the data they receive. When an alert for a potential web application attack appears, it is often vague and stripped of context. What follows is a frantic, manual investigation that can stretch on for hours as analysts scramble for answers: Is this a real threat or just another benign probe? Which of the hundreds of applications is it targeting? Is that application even vulnerable?
This challenge highlights a critical intelligence gap. The problem is especially true for alerts from traditional perimeter tools, such as Web Application Firewalls (WAFs), where research shows fewer than 0.25% of alerts correlate to a genuine exploit. This flood of low-quality data pollutes the SIEM, creating noise that hinders Sumo Logic’s ability to surface the real application threats that matter.
This operational drag isn't just inefficient; it's dangerous. That’s why Contrast Security and Sumo Logic have partnered to solve this exact problem. Our new, deep integration is designed to compress that hours-long investigation into minutes by feeding the Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM a fundamentally better data stream. This enables analysts to see, instantly and definitively, not just that an attack happened, but how it was attempted, where it was targeted, and whether it was successful.
Let's walk through a typical incident. Your SOC has successfully centralized its security data, and a potential application threat has been flagged within your SIEM. The alert, likely generated by a perimeter tool, indicates a suspicious web request and is automatically correlated with other infrastructure logs. You have a single pane of glass, but the view is foggy. The data lacks the specific application context needed for a decisive response.
The analyst is now faced with a series of difficult questions that the available data cannot answer on its own:
Answering these questions requires a time-consuming investigation. Even in a centralized SIEM, if the source data from your security tools is generic, analysts are still forced to manually enrich the incident. This involves escalating to specialized AppSec or development teams to validate the threat, a dependency that creates a dangerous delay. Unlike the 24/7 operations of a SOC, developers aren't always on hand. An attack flagged on a Friday night might leave the security team waiting until Monday morning for the answers needed to understand and resolve the incident, leaving a critical window of exposure open.
The integration between Contrast Security and Sumo Logic transforms this fractured process into a seamless, context-rich workflow. By embedding a sensor directly within the application itself, Contrast streams high-fidelity security telemetry into Sumo Logic’s AI-driven Cloud SIEM, providing the ground truth of what’s happening at runtime.
Now, let's replay our scenario with the integration in place.
Instead of a vague alert, a clean, high-priority Signal is generated in the Sumo Logic console. It’s not a guess based on a perimeter pattern; it’s a verified event from a Contrast rule that detected a SQL Injection attack from inside the running application.
The analyst sees the alert with context and knows it’s real. With a single click, they drill down into the underlying Record, which is enriched with the deep context only Contrast’s runtime awareness can provide.
Instantly, the analyst has the answers they need, all within a single view in Sumo Logic:
That "Exploited" status is significant. This level of accuracy is possible because runtime alerts are based on behavioral analysis of what is happening inside the application. Unlike perimeter tools that guess from the outside, an embedded sensor observes how code actually behaves. A security-specific behavioral anomaly is only triggered when a malicious attack successfully interacts with a real vulnerability in the application's code, which is why these alerts have a 100% correlation to real exploits.
What was once a multi-hour investigation is now a three-minute triage. The analyst didn’t have to hunt for data or escalate to another team. They have a comprehensive, correlated view of the attack chain, from infrastructure to code, all within the SIEM.
This definitive insight empowers immediate and confident action. Armed with verified intelligence, the analyst can utilize the full power of the Sumo Logic platform to respond effectively.
They can immediately use Sumo Logic’s powerful query language to investigate the attacking IP for related activity across the entire environment. And because Contrast provides the complete context, they can confidently escalate the incident, create a detailed developer ticket, or coordinate an additional network block at the firewall. The ambiguity is gone, replaced by the certainty required to act.
By enriching Sumo Logic’s powerful analytics engine with verified, real-time application threat intelligence, we are closing a critical visibility gap for the SOC. This integration eliminates the noise common to perimeter tools, surfaces the threats that matter, and empowers security teams to move from reactive fire drills to rapid, decisive response.
To learn more about how Contrast Security and Sumo Logic are providing a unified view of risk, visit the Sumo Logic partner page.
Maarten Buis serves as Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Contrast Security. He translates complex application security capabilities into clear advantages for SecOps professionals, helping them fortify their defenses and honor their commitment to upholding that trust.
