Charles Kloote is the manager of Platform Engineering, CISO for OmniSOC, and leads a team of engineers responsible for building, maintaining and securing the OmniSOC SIEM infrastructure. He is also one of the original technical architects responsible for designing and building the first iteration of the OmniSOC platform.
Before OmniSOC, Charles spent 10 years as a principal systems engineer for Indiana University’s GlobalNOC, where he was responsible for building and running software and infrastructure responsible for managing and monitoring national and regional high-speed networks. While at GlobalNOC, he also served as the lead for information security for NOAA’s N-Wave network. Prior to joining GlobalNOC, he had a 10-year career in the private sector building and supporting infrastructure for both software startups and Internet service providers.
Charles’s professional interests include information security, systems architecture and design, and agile/DevOps development practices. He holds a B.S. in Informatics with a minor in Computer Science from Indiana University.