Asia-based SMBs: leverage logs to enhance cloud security and scale your operations

As small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) across Asia adopt cloud technologies to accelerate growth, securing your cloud infrastructure becomes a significant challenge. The complexities of managing cloud environments, regulatory compliance, and ensuring real-time threat detection require robust solutions that are both scalable and cost-effective.

Sumo Logic addresses these needs with its cloud-native platform, delivering advanced log management and real-time analytics that empower SMBs to secure their cloud infrastructure efficiently.

The role of logs in cloud security

Logs are the backbone of cloud security. They capture critical information about every transaction, event, and user activity within cloud environments. However, the challenge for growing SMBs is managing and interpreting vast amounts of log data generated across multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures. Without proper tools, critical security events can go unnoticed, leaving businesses exposed to threats.

Sumo Logic’s platform enables businesses to centralize and process log data in real time, offering deep insights into cloud activities and potential security vulnerabilities. By analyzing these logs, organizations can detect anomalies, automate threat detection, and ensure compliance with regional regulations.

Sumo Logic’s advanced cloud security capabilities for SMBs

For SMBs in Asia that are rapidly expanding, having a tool like Sumo Logic is essential for achieving cloud security at scale. Below are some of the platform's key technical capabilities tailored for SMBs looking to secure their cloud environments.

Multi-cloud security visibility

Many SMBs in Asia operate across multiple cloud platforms to support business growth. However, managing security across these environments introduces significant complexity. Logs are spread across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, each with its own formats and tools.

Sumo Logic addresses this by providing centralized visibility into all cloud infrastructure from a single pane of glass. With native integrations for AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and Google Cloud logging, Sumo Logic ingests logs from all cloud services, allowing security teams to monitor events and incidents across multiple cloud platforms in real time, via a single platform.

This centralized approach reduces the risk of blind spots and ensures that security teams can detect and respond to threats across the entire cloud infrastructure.

Compliance automation for regional regulatory requirements

Compliance is a critical concern for businesses across Asia, especially in countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Australia and Thailand, where information technology risks and its impact on continuous availability of key services are paramount . Each country has its own stringent regulations, such as, Singapore - Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), Singapore’s Technology Risk Management Guidance ( MAS TRM ), Malaysia - Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA), Malaysia’s Risk Management in Technology (RMiT), Australia- Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018, India - Information Technology Act, 2000 & IT Rules, 2011, China - Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), Japan - Act on the Protection of Personal Information (APPI) and various national cybersecurity laws across the region. These regulations require strict logging, auditing, and reporting practices to ensure data protection and privacy.

Sumo Logic simplifies compliance by automating log collection and retention policies, ensuring that businesses meet these regulatory requirements efficiently. The platform offers pre-built compliance dashboards and reports tailored to various global and regional frameworks such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and local data protection laws.

For example, if you are required to track access to sensitive customer data, Sumo Logic’s compliance dashboards can provide visibility into user activity, including who accessed the data, when, and from where. These logs can be stored securely and retained based on regulatory requirements, ensuring that you can generate audit-ready reports with minimal effort.

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Pre-built use case-specific dashboards and alerts

SMBs often lack the resources to build and manage complex dashboards and queries from scratch. Sumo Logic offers out-of-the-box dashboards and alert configurations tailored to common cloud security use cases. These include threat hunting, incident response, and compliance monitoring.

For example, in an AWS environment, Sumo Logic provides predefined dashboards for CloudTrail, letting youmonitor activity logs for unusual API calls, failed login attempts, or unauthorized access. Customizable alerts are also set up to trigger notifications based on specific conditions, such as repeated failed authentication attempts, privilege escalation, or changes to security group rules.

These pre-built dashboards not only save time but also ensure that you can start gaining value from your log data immediately without a dedicated security team or lengthy and expensive consulting engagements.

Scalable architecture to support growing log volumes

As SMBs in Asia scale their operations, the volume of log data they generate will increase exponentially. Managing this data without performance degradation is crucial for maintaining efficient and effective security monitoring.

Sumo Logic’s platform is built on a cloud-native, multi-tenant architecture that automatically scales with the needs of the business. Whether it’s processing log data from a few virtual machines or from thousands of cloud instances, Sumo Logic’s infrastructure ensures that logs are ingested, processed, and analyzed in real-time.

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Data normalization and log parsing

Sumo Logic solves this issue through advanced data normalization. It parses and normalizes logs from disparate sources—whether from AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or on-premises systems—letting you view and analyze security events in a unified format. This unified view makes it easier to identify patterns and perform correlation analysis across cloud and hybrid infrastructure that ordinarily would not have the same degree of interoperability.

For example, the Sumo Logic Platform can correlate logs from AWS CloudTrail, Azure Security Center, and Google Cloud's Security Command Center to highlight suspicious activities like unauthorized access attempts, misconfigured security settings, or unusual API calls. Such comprehensive visibility ensures that potential security issues, which may otherwise be overlooked as a result of siloed log sources, are detected and addressed promptly.

Real-time threat detection with machine learning

Security threats evolve quickly, and businesses need to detect them as they occur. Sumo Logic’s platform ingests and processes logs in real-time, helping you detect threats instantaneously. Leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms, Sumo Logic identifies unusual patterns and behaviors by analyzing the metadata, including timestamps, IP addresses, and user actions.

For instance, if a cloud service account shows anomalous behavior, such as login attempts from geographically distant locations within a short timeframe, Sumo Logic can flag this as a potential account takeover attempt. Security teams can then investigate and respond to the threat before it escalates.

This continuous analysis of log data allows for proactive threat detection, which is especially useful for SMBs that might lack the resources for 24/7 security monitoring.

Additionally, Sumo Logic’s flexible pricing model lets you scale their logging and security monitoring capabilities as you grow.

Implementing Sumo Logic to strengthen cloud security for SMBs

For SMBs in Asia, adopting a platform like Sumo Logic provides the technical foundation to secure their cloud infrastructure while keeping operational costs low. By centralizing and analyzing logs in real-time, businesses can strengthen their security posture and proactively respond to emerging threats.

With features like AI-driven alerting, advanced data analytics, multi-cloud visibility, and compliance readiness, Sumo Logic simplifies the complex task of managing cloud security for growing SMBs.

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