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Medidata Finds the Cure for Security Analytics with Sumo Logic
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
- Cybersecurity & Privacy - Security Compliance
Applicable Industries
- Life Sciences
- Healthcare & Hospitals
- Pharmaceuticals
Applicable Functions
- Quality Assurance
- Business Operation
- Facility Management
Use Cases
- Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Cybersecurity Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Medidata needed to improve its level of transparency into security events on its systems, help substantiate its high level of security diligence to clients, prevent data leakage, and be able to analyze attacks in near real-time. The team needed to do so without having to depend upon outdated signature-based or intrusion detection systems that issue countless false positives when tuned too tightly, or miss incidents altogether when tuned too loosely. Additionally, Medidata's clients were concerned about the security of their cloud-based systems, necessitating a solution that could provide comprehensive security insights for both on-premises and cloud environments.
About The Customer
Medidata helps clinical trials and studies run better. Today, more than two million patients participate in about 9,000 studies that depend on Medidata’s cloud platform, the Medidata Clinical Cloud. The Medidata Clinical Cloud improves productivity and quality in the clinical testing process of new medical treatments, from study design and planning through study execution, management, and reporting. Medidata’s customer base spans biopharmaceutical companies, medical device and diagnostic companies, academic and government institutions, contract research organizations, and other research organizations, including 24 of the top 25 global pharmaceutical companies. Founded in 1999 in New York, with offices now throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, Medidata relies heavily on technology to run its business and provides its services.
The Solution
Medidata chose Sumo Logic’s cloud-native data analytics platform to gain full stack visibility and real-time insights into the security status of their on-premises and cloud-based data centers. Sumo Logic delivers real-time, continuous intelligence across Medidata’s entire infrastructure and application stack, and provided Medidata with a solution that helps it to automatically generate audit-ready compliance reports from both its on-premises and AWS event logs. Additionally, predictive analytics powered by machine learning algorithms uncovers unknown security events without relying on rules or predefined schemas to ward off impending threats. The implementation was smooth and quick, taking only 20 minutes to get up and running, and provided actionable information from the first report.
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