Case Study: The Pokémon Company International achieves automated, scalable security and faster incident response with Sumo Logic

The Pokémon Company International - Customer Case Study

The Pokémon Company International faced a security and scalability challenge after Pokemon Go’s explosive growth prompted the company to bring development in‑house and migrate much of its technology stack to AWS. With hundreds of millions of users, new cloud architectures (containers, serverless), agile/DevOps practices, and strict regulations like COPPA and GDPR, Pokémon needed a top‑tier security operations center to protect user data and keep up with rapid change.

Pokémon standardized on Sumo Logic to centralize machine data across AWS, deploy prebuilt dashboards, alerts, and automated responses, and operate via a rapid OODA loop. The result was faster, automated threat detection and remediation that freed analysts to focus on complex incidents, major process improvements (one workflow went from 11 touchpoints over 5–7 days to two touchpoints in five minutes), stronger GDPR compliance, and greater visibility and credibility for InfoSec across the business.

The Pokémon Company International

John Visneski

Data Protection Officer