Case Study: Medidata Solutions achieves real-time hybrid security visibility and proactive threat detection with Sumo Logic

Medidata Finds the Cure for Security Analytics with Sumo Logic

Medidata, a life‑sciences technology company that runs the Medidata Clinical Cloud for more than two million patients across ~9,000 studies, needed deep, real‑time visibility into the security posture of a hybrid environment (a large on‑prem data center plus AWS). Generating nearly 2 TB of logs per month and facing customer scrutiny over cloud security, Medidata needed a solution that would detect attacks and substantiate controls without additional hardware or noisy signature‑based tools.

Medidata deployed Sumo Logic’s cloud‑native analytics to gain continuous, cross‑stack intelligence and machine‑learning‑driven detection, with minutes‑fast setup and audit‑ready reporting across on‑prem and cloud systems. The result: clearer, demonstrable security for customers, rapid, proactive incident detection and response (including stopping an attack within minutes), the ability to surface only the meaningful events from massive log volumes, and stronger support for regulatory compliance.

Medidata Solutions

Glenn Watt

Chief Information Security Officer