Posts by Justin Kikani

The Noise Was Always the Problem

6 min read | June 23, 2026

I've been in security long enough to remember the wall-to-wall SOC: rows of analysts staring at screens full of alerts, hoping they didn't miss the one thing that mattered...

At Blumira, Justin helps to craft detection rules as part of the Incident Detection Engineering team. Prior to joining the team, he was the Director of IT at Nexus Direct, where he supported the company in its transition to a remote infrastructure. Before that, he held various IT and engineering roles, including a major telecommunications company and a local commercial IT consulting company, where he gained a reputation for his knowledge in building mobile and data center solutions. Justin has a Bachelor’s Degree from Old Dominion University.