This post is the first of a multi-part blog series on various sources of telemetry. At LimaCharlie, we’re a firm believer in visibility. The more an analyst can see about their environment, the more impactful decisions they can make. We are huge fans of multi-source telemetry, bringing visibility from almost anywhere in your environment to one place for analysis, detection, and response capabilities.

Security infrastructure as a service (SIaaS) is an engineering-centric, infrastructure-first approach to cybersecurity—and is at the heart of everything we do at LimaCharlie. In this post, we’ll explain more about what SIaaS is, why it’s important, and how it differs from legacy models of cybersecurity.

Introduce yourself and tell us what you do for your day job. My name is Dr. Joseph J. Burt-Miller Jr. I currently serve as Assistant Project Manager at the Department of Homeland Security. One of my main duties is handling the risk management piece for projects, so interacting with contractors and our risk owners, ensures that our risks are tracked and mitigated. Anything that needs immediate attention I bring to my leadership, my project manager and program manager, etc.