The field of information security is constantly evolving, marked by the continuous emergence of new technologies, threats, and regulations. With generative AI, shifts toward early application security measures, and post-decryption Network Detection and Response (NDR) continuing to rise, 2024 is poised to present new, ever-evolving risks and an increase in ransomware globally.

These new trends are significantly shaping how organizations approach security strategy and operations. However, as threats – ranging from supply chain attacks to AI-driven phishing continue to evolve, the security landscape is poised to undergo even further transformation in the near future.

In this complex and changing environment, having flexible and adaptable security architecture is critical. This is precisely where LimaCharlie's SecOps Cloud Platform proves invaluable. As a cloud-native security orchestration platform, it offers the versatility and agility necessary for organizations to navigate evolving security paradigms and seamlessly integrate disparate tools into a unified framework.

Fresh off of the launch of our fund, Myriad Venture Partners is thrilled to reaffirm our partnership with LimaCharlie CEO Maxime Lamothe-Brassard and his team as they announce their successful Series A funding. Our alignment dates back to the early stages, driven by our shared vision to build next generation orchestration fabric. Such a solution is essential for organizations seeking to redefine their information security toolsets and continuously enhance their defensive capabilities.

Converging Process and Technology with Security Orchestration

Many institutions have accumulated mountains of disjointed security tools. This results in fragmented visibility, manual processes, and inefficient workflows. Security teams now need a solution to seamlessly manage these technologies and workflows.

LimaCharlie is the ideal hub for security orchestration. The platform collects and standardizes data from various tools into a central data lake through APIs and log ingestion. This unified dataset drives process automation to streamline detection, investigation, and mitigation efforts. The SecOps Cloud Platform leverages pre-built integrations with leading incident response platforms to easily construct playbooks that chain together capabilities across vendors and align security processes and technologies into a cohesive unit.

Centralized Orchestration for Hybrid Security Operations

As more entities embrace hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures to gain visibility across environments and coordinate security controls, they risk data segregation. The SecOps Cloud Platform addresses this by breaking down data and tool silos, providing security teams with a centralized orchestration layer.

The platform ingests and normalizes data from on-premise security information and event management systems (SIEMs), SaaS solutions, and endpoint agents to create a unified dataset. This is the foundation for AI-driven detection, automated response playbooks, and federated search across security domains. Having a cloud-based orchestration platform is the only scalable way to gain visibility and control in today's hybrid distributed environments. It also makes it easy to layer on new security capabilities as threats and infrastructure evolve.

Gaining visibility into hybrid infrastructure is crucial for security, but collecting and storing massive amounts of security data can become prohibitively expensive. Ideally, data ingestion and retention should align with usage patterns. LimaCharlie employs just-in-time retrieval, allowing querying and selective retrieval of historical data from endpoints as needed for investigations. This approach minimizes the cost of retaining all telemetry indefinitely in warm storage. Lightweight endpoint agents are strategically deployed to critical assets, rather than exhaustively across all systems. Network traffic analysis focuses on extracting metadata like flows rather than full packet capture. Together, these techniques balance visibility and economics for sustainable security across hybrid infrastructure.

Embracing Elasticity with Cloud-Native Security

Legacy security appliances and on-premise management consoles make it hard to adopt ephemeral cloud infrastructure or adjust capacity over time. Modern security demands solutions designed for the cloud. As a cloud-native platform, LimaCharlie provides the elasticity and agility necessary for dynamic environments. Its multi-tenant architecture seamlessly scales on demand to accommodate massive workloads across various customers.

Unlike siloed products, LimaCharlie offers a suite of microservices that can be flexibly chained together. This architecture allows for quick deployment or removal of new capabilities as needed. Consequently, organizations, especially those prioritizing cloud-first approaches, can easily adjust their security posture in response to evolving needs.

Shifting Security Left in the App Dev Lifecycle

As the threat landscape evolves, organizations are prioritizing application security, particularly in light of the rise in supply chain attacks. Attempting to address security concerns after applications get built is ineffective. Instead, there’s a growing recognition of the need to integrate security practices and testing earlier in the development lifecycle – a concept often referred to as “shift left.”

This approach demands close integration between security tools and developer environments. LimaCharlie facilitates this integration by providing API-level hooks into the software delivery pipeline. Security checks such as Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing, (DAST), and Software Composition Analysis (SCA) can be directly woven into the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) process, enabling rapid identification and resolution of issues.

At the same time, its integration runtime protection and posture management capabilities, “shift right”, ensure security measures extend beyond the build stage. The LimaCharlie agent injects inline controls into running applications to prevent and respond to attacks. It also continuously monitors production environments for risky configurations or unauthorized changes. Together, these “shift left” and “shift right” measures create a seamless AppSec lifecycle powered through the SecOps Cloud Platform.

Flexibility for Detection Engineering and MDR

As detection engineering and Managed Detection Response (MDR) services gain prominence, security teams need greater flexibility and customization in implementing detection and response mechanisms, rather than being constrained by pre-packaged vendor modules. LimaCharlie enables this shift by providing easy access to security data through APIs.

This capability empowers detection engineers to rapidly build and refine custom detections tailored to the organization's unique environment. It also allows MDRs to more easily integrate client data into their existing Security Operation Center (SOC) workflows. The platform's microservices architecture enables organizations to leverage as much or as little functionality as they need. This contrasts with monolithic security suites that compel customers to adopt all components of a vendor's stack. With LimaCharlie, organizations retain autonomy over the selection and configuration of capabilities, offering a superior level of control and adaptability in security operations.

Enabling MDR Services to Scale and Customize

Modern organizations are turning to MDR services to monitor alerts and augment security capabilities. But traditional MDR solutions often lack customization, relying on a fixed stack of tools. The SecOps Cloud Platform changes this paradigm by allowing open but secure access to data. MDRs leverage APIs to ingest client telemetry into their existing SOC systems and tailor detections based on specifics of an organization's infrastructure and risks. LimaCharlie ensures consistency of data and tooling across an MDR provider's different customers. The platform normalizes and streams data in a common schema rather than different tools and formats. This allows MDRs to industrialize and scale their services rapidly.

At Myriad, we back visionary companies that are strategically positioned to lead their markets – especially in next-generation industries. As the information security industry integrates AI capabilities and faces unprecedented challenges, our network of corporate titans and top-tier venture capitalists is poised to support LimaCharlie’s long-term vision for success. Constant changes in technology and threat trends are fundamentally reshaping our information security strategies. While the cybersecurity landscape will continue to rapidly evolve, LimaCharlie helps organizations rapidly adapt and finally stay ahead of tomorrow's threat actors.