New Funding Will Help BlackCloak Improve Protection Against Rising Cyberthreats

A startup led by the Royal Bank of Scotland’s former privacy leader raised $17 million to provide threat modeling and deepfake protection to C-suites and boards.

Orlando-based BlackCloak said the Series B funding will help the digital executive protection vendor scale both its product development and concierge services to help protect high-profile individuals from cyberthreats in their personal lives. Growing BlackCloak’s engineering and security teams will enable the company to offer deepfake protection, threat intelligence and incident response tailored to executives.

“This is different than any other mission that’s been out there,” founder and CEO Chris Pierson told Information Security Media Group. “We’re the pioneer. We’re the first company that is here, tackling this issue for corporations. We need to grow the engineering team and the product team.”

 

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