Case Study: BLOKWORX | Prevention-First Cybersecurity Powered by LimaCharlie

Background

Cybersecurity is a fast-paced field where survival depends upon flexibility, and BLOKWORX has successfully adapted to this changing environment for two decades. Founded in 2006 as a security-focused managed service provider (MSP), BLOKWORX transformed into a fully managed, prevention-centric cybersecurity partner for managed IT teams and MSPs.

In the words of Robert Boles, Founder and President, "We function as an MSSP where we bring tools, deployment processes, tuning, monitoring, support, and growth—all cohesively aligned—allowing our security service partners to scale and profit far faster than they ever thought possible."

As a prevention-first MSSP, BLOKWORX manages tools, deployment processes, tuning, monitoring, and offers 24/7/365 US- Based Human support to their customers. Their services are divided into their Zero-day Security Suite:

• Endpoint and EDR Protection — Prevention-focused endpoint security that stops threats before execution

• Cloud & Email Security — Advanced filtering and prevention of phishing and business email or collaboration applications compromise

• Vulnerability Assessments — Proactive identification and remediation of security gaps

• Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Management — Enterprise-grade perimeter security without complexity

High demand for BLOKWORX's prevention-first approach has led to 5x team growth over the past six years, with the company proudly maintaining its all-American operations while expanding its prevention capabilities.

The Challenge: Serving Service Providers

BLOKWORX is quite familiar with the services, tools, and resources needed to secure enterprise environments. Yet, their business evolved to include supporting service providers who managed multiple enterprises as well as direct clients. This meant the complexity and scale of BLOKWORX's security operations was a magnitude higher than simply running a standard MSSP. Companies who try to scale their tooling and processes to this degree often hit a breaking point.

As Robert Boles describes the situation, "The most common partners we work with are MSPs overwhelmed by the tall task of managing and scaling their cybersecurity services to their end clients. We often find them in one of two camps: either bogged down operationally by alert fatigue and feeling ill-equipped to respond to all accordingly—or lacking proper sleep at night hoping that the automated solutions they have deployed are sufficient without fully monitoring and actioning these events 24/7/365."

The LimaCharlie Solution

To manage problems of scalability, transparency, and multi-environment management, BLOKWORX adopted the LimaCharlie SecOps Cloud Platform (SCP). The platform provided key capabilities that aligned with the BLOKWORX prevention-first approach:

• Simple, native multi-tenancy: The SCP has multi-tenancy built into its core infrastructure, making it easy to create and manage multiple organizations. It also allows the templating of security profiles which facilitates rapid deployment of security capabilities and access permissions. These features helped BLOKWORX scale its offerings to cover as many customers as needed without sacrificing performance or functionality.

• Data retention and management: Data costs are a significant expense for organizations leveraging SIEMs and SOARs. The SCP offered BLOKWORX instant value by providing a year of free telemetry storage. This allows BLOKWORX customers to keep all their telemetry (useful for ensuring regulatory compliance), while only sending high-value data to other platforms for analysis—reducing costs while increasing visibility.

• Automation and Customization: Automation is essential for handling staggering amounts of data and detections. With the SCP, BLOKWORX was able to build out extensive automation features and customize them to their customer's environments. Examples include writing rules that reduce false positives and detections that identify signs of next generation anti-virus (NGAV) health failure and deploy automated repair scripts.

• Scalability and expansive capabilities: Managed service providers often worry about scalability when large clients come aboard. Tools and processes that worked well for hundreds of employees may break when addressing thousands. With the SCP, BLOKWORX knew scaling their infrastructure was no issue. Likewise, the ability to connect security resources via API and automate operations allowed them to customize or create new capabilities for their customers.

Streamlined Processes, Crucial Adaptability

The flexibility of LimaCharlie makes it a natural fit for BLOKWORX, an agile business focused on preventing security incidents before they impact organizations. Multi-tenancy and templated security profiles make it easy to deploy security to new organizations or businesses in the midst of an incident response. The API-first nature of the SCP and its scalability allows them to integrate and expand tooling without having to hire additional experts or infrastructure managers. Taking on new clients, expanding services for existing ones, and retiring services that are no longer needed are fast and simple processes.

Robert Boles explains, "The challenges we faced before discovering LimaCharlie were primarily around managing multiple tenants at scale. Many tools in this space were either feature-rich but couldn't scale, or ultra-scalable but lacked critical features our SOC needs for 24/7 prevention operations."

"The scalability of LimaCharlie is unmatched," he continues. "We can onboard large partners and clients, customize for their environment, and still sleep at night knowing our SOC isn't overloaded."

The ability to build new security solutions and scale them is another feature of the SCP that BLOKWORX leverages to serve their customers. Their DevOps team uses this capability to customize their platform and innovate new solutions to suit their customers' needs. The flexibility of the SCP and its strong customization features have helped them refine their zero-day endpoint security and increase operational efficiency.

Automation plays a large role in streamlining the security operations at BLOKWORX as well. They use automation in their detection and response operations to improve mean time to respond (MTTR) and prevent incidents before they escalate. Automation can also help separate real detections from telemetry noise, perform repetitive tasks, and launch coordinated activities across the SCP.

Results: Prevention at Scale

The platform's capabilities have enabled BLOKWORX to achieve remarkable results:

• Scale operations to support 5x team growth without sacrificing performance or security outcomes

• Accelerate onboarding and incident response using templated profiles and automated playbooks

• Reduce mean time to respond (MTTR) across clients by cutting through noise and automating first response

• Build new security solutions that can be rapidly deployed and scaled to meet evolving customer needs

• Eliminate alert fatigue through intelligent automation, allowing their SOC team to focus on true threats

• Deploy seamless multi-tenant environments that can be managed efficiently while maintaining security boundaries

Prevention-First Future

While most businesses fail before their sixth year, BLOKWORX has thrived for nearly two decades by adapting to their customers' needs and maintaining a prevention-first approach to security. LimaCharlie makes it easy for BLOKWORX to scale operations, enhance service offerings, and deploy preventative security across multiple organizations. Features like native multi-tenancy, API integration, automation, bi-directionality, and limitless scaling make the SCP a natural fit for businesses supporting security service providers.

BLOKWORX remains as agile as ever, developing new extensions for the LimaCharlie platform and expanding their external telemetry ingestion capabilities to include alternative sources that will further assist their operations. As the cybersecurity field continues to evolve, BLOKWORX will be using LimaCharlie to stay two steps ahead of threat actors and keep their partners and clients protected.

"LimaCharlie didn't just solve a problem—it gave us a platform to innovate and stay ahead," says Robert Boles. "With the right infrastructure, even the most complex security operations can scale with clarity and control."

About BLOKWORX

BLOKWORX is a prevention-focused MSSP that provides Zero-Day Security Suite protection, including endpoint security, cloud and email protection, vulnerability management, and NGFW services. Their 24/7/365 security operations enable organizations to benefit from enterprise security without the complexity or overhead of building in-house security teams. Learn more at blokworx.com.

About LimaCharlie

LimaCharlie is a SecOps Cloud Platform that gives teams full control and visibility over their security posture—and solves problems of vendor lock-in, unpredictable pricing, and tool sprawl. To see how LimaCharlie can help reduce costs and simplify security operations, try the SecOps Cloud Platform for free or book a demo today at limacharlie.io.

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