Chas Clawson

Chas Clawson is the VP of Security Strategy at Sumo Logic, where he helps organizations rethink how they secure modern workloads in an increasingly AI-driven world. A technologist with over 20 years of experience, Chas has consulted Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies alike — from architecting the Department of Commerce’s ESOC SIEM solution to conducting offensive security exercises as part of the NSA Red Team.

Before joining Sumo, he spent years helping both public and private sector teams modernize their SOCs, and today he channels that experience into shaping the future of cloud-native security and AI-driven defense. When he’s not talking about security strategy, you’ll likely find him teaching cyber courses at the University of Maryland Global Campus — or trying to keep up with his five energetic kids at home (a different kind of threat landscape).