25-Year Crisis Response Management Veteran Brings Depth of Fraud, Data Exposure, and Identity Theft Prevention to Digital Executive Protection Pioneer

Orlando, FL – March 30, 2026 – BlackCloak, a pioneer in Digital Executive Protection (DEP) for corporate executives, boards of directors, and Family Offices, announced today that Michael Bruemmer, a seasoned data breach and fraud prevention expert, has joined the company’s Advisory Board. 

Currently, Bruemmer is Vice President of Global Data Breach and Consumer Protection at Experian, where he has worked for nearly 15 years. He has more than 25 years of experience in crisis response management with Experian, as well as companies like Dell, PepsiCo, and Kraft General Foods. Bruemmer has devoted his career to educating businesses of all sizes and sectors on breach preparedness and response planning, including the importance of notifying affected consumers and implementing identity theft protection services to limit the impact of the breach on victims. Throughout his professional life, he has handled more than 70,000 data breaches, including some of the largest and most complex incidents in U.S. history.

Bruemmer joins BlackCloak’s Advisory Board at a time of significant growth and expansion. Over the past year, demand for the company’s full spectrum DEP platform as a missing control layer of enterprise cybersecurity has soared, with year-over-year Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) nearly doubling in 2025. He joins existing BlackCloak Advisory Board members Roland Cloutier, Malcolm Harkins, and Patricia Titus.

“Michael has spent his career on the front lines, guiding organizations through their most vulnerable moments. I have long respected his ability to navigate the complex human and technical fallout of some of the most devastating data breaches we’ve seen,” said Dr. Chris Pierson, BlackCloak’s Founder and CEO. “He is joining our advisory board at a critical time, when we are strengthening our ability to anticipate market shifts and adapt. As the adoption of our DEP platform accelerates, Michael’s insights will be a tremendous asset in our mission to protect executives, their families, and the enterprises they lead.”

“Most executives don’t pay attention to security details outside of their work lives, which is a major exposure for enterprises. With the increasing sophistication of AI and social engineering threats, and broad accessibility to tools and tactics for less skilled hackers, this lack of oversight is a significant threat vector,” said Bruemmer. “I believe in the work that BlackCloak does to continuously protect its members – and by extension, their companies – and I couldn’t be more excited to join this premier team of privacy and security experts.”

In his role at Experian, Bruemmer helps businesses prepare for a data breach, manage consumer crisis response programs, and mitigate consumer risk following incidents. He possesses a wealth of knowledge related to crisis response management from discovery to post-incident clean up, and is a respected speaker at industry organizations and events across the country.

Bruemmer has provided insight to many trade and business media outlets including Dark Reading, IT Business, CIO, Info Security Magazine, Security Week, Health IT Security, The Wall Street Journal, and American Banker, among others. He has been a guest columnist for SecurityInfoWatch and has appeared on broadcast channels such as Fox Business. He currently serves on the Ponemon Responsible Information Management (RIM) Board and NetDiligence Advisory Board.

For more information about BlackCloak’s Digital Executive Protection services, visit blackcloak.io.

About BlackCloak

BlackCloak protects corporate executives, board members, high-profile individuals, and their families from privacy, financial, and other reputational risks. Used by Fortune 500 companies across all industries, the BlackCloak Concierge Cybersecurity & Privacy™ Platform is a comprehensive solution that includes mobile and desktop apps, as well as concierge support. Executives and high-profile individuals gain complete peace of mind knowing their family, reputation, and finances are secured. Companies rest assured that their brand, intellectual property, data, and finances are protected against threats from executives without invading their personal lives. Learn more at www.blackcloak.io and follow us on LinkedIn.

 

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Beyond simple data removal, BlackCloak’s latest advancements at RSAC 2026 integrate  impersonation defense, advanced search suppression, and real-time travel intelligence with its US-based SOC to secure executives’ homes and devices.

SAN FRANCISCO — March 23, 2026 — While the industry has focused primarily on online exposure reduction, BlackCloak continues to lead advancements in Digital Executive Protection (DEP) by securing the targets threat actors actually exploit: the executive’s home and personal devices. Privacy engines that only remove publicly available data solve the important first step of a threat actor’s reconnaissance. BlackCloak goes beyond privacy to integrate its platform with a concierge model and US-based SOC using tools that monitor clients’ homes and devices 24/7, moving beyond a singular focus on online footprint management to provide active defense against the malware and physical risks that target executives. 

Threat actors have long understood what many security teams are only now acknowledging: the most effective path into an organization runs through its leaders’ personal lives. BlackCloak’s latest capabilities address that reality head-on — before travel becomes an incident, before an impersonation succeeds, and before a threat actor can map a name to a home address.

“The attack surface for executives has never been broader, and the most dangerous exposures happen outside the corporate perimeter,” said Dr. Chris Pierson, Founder and CEO of BlackCloak. “These three capabilities represent a significant step forward in what Digital Executive Protection means in practice: communication authenticity in an era of AI-generated deception, a new layer of digital invisibility, and analyst-grade travel intelligence unified in a single platform.”

Addressing the Security Coverage Gap

Trying to hide personally identifiable information (PII) is an important and necessary part of the executive protection equation. Once a threat actor has successfully mapped an executive’s identity, they pivot to the home network and personal devices that corporate controls cannot reach. BlackCloak is the only Digital Executive Protection solution that covers the full spectrum of protection from privacy to personal devices and home, including: 

• Home Network Hardening: Performs weekly penetration tests on home networks to detect weak security, open ports, and compromised devices. 
• Comprehensive Device Protection: Monitors devices for malware and/or other security threats, providing a centralized dashboard for the executive’s entire digital household. 
• Deception Honeypots: BlackCloak’s network of deception devices/honeypots alerts to unwanted attackers that may use methods other than malware to attack a person or device.
• The US-Based SOC: Unlike consumer apps, every alert is backed by BlackCloak’s US-based SOC using tools that monitor clients’ homes and devices 24/7 to identify and contain breaches, malware, and other cybersecurity risks. 

DEP Personal Device & Intelligence Enhancements

Impersonation Protection within the BlackCloak Mobile App Combats AI-Powered Deepfake Threats

Safeguarding against deepfakes and social engineering, this mobile app feature allows members to validate the authenticity of communications they receive in real-time from other BlackCloak members with whom they are connected. New for 2026, every Impersonation Protection exchange now incorporates the potential for device-level biometric validation — Face ID, fingerprint, or equivalent — alongside the geolocation from which the request originated, giving recipients a higher level of confidence that the communication is genuine.

The Impersonation Protection feature uses a secure process within the BlackCloak app so members can validate the authenticity of any call, email, text, video chat, or other interaction from any other BlackCloak member with whom they share a connection. This secure handshake ensures that every interaction between members can be authenticated, neutralizing impersonation threats before finances or reputations can be compromised.

Impersonation Protection is currently available to BlackCloak members. To learn more about adding it to your protection plan, request a private briefing at RSAC 2026 at https://blackcloak.io/rsac-2026/.

Member Travel Advisory: Intelligence That Acts Before You Land

Member Travel Advisory delivers AI-synthesized and continuously updated risk analysis across four dimensions: cybersecurity, physical, geopolitical, and social conditions, with an integrated risk rating and governance scoring for every country. 

Unlike travel risk platforms or cyber threat intelligence platforms that deliver static advisories requiring an experienced analyst, this level of contextualized analysis is available as self-service in the BlackCloak mobile app. Members see curated incident feeds by threat category, third-party governance indicators, direct embassy contact information, and plain-language translations of US State Department advisory levels, all at the depth of analyst-grade intelligence.

Member Travel Advisory will be available to BlackCloak members this spring. To request a private briefing at RSAC 2026, visit https://blackcloak.io/rsac-2026/.

DEP Privacy & PII Removal Enhancements

Search Suppression: Eliminate Discovery, Not Just Data

BlackCloak’s Data Broker Removal (DBR) service has long targeted personal information at the source by removing members’ personally identifiable information (PII) directly from data brokers on their behalf. While data deletion is critical, Search Suppression actively monitors major search engines for an executive’s name combined with sensitive details. BlackCloak has automated the ability to hide certain PII from search results originating from these data broker sites, ensuring that the site suppressed will not appear in search results even if a broker is slow to respond. 

DBR removes the record. Search Suppression creates additional hurdles for threat actors to conduct discovery. Together, they ensure that data being removed is harder to find in the interim, delivering a powerful defense against threat actors attempting to map an executive’s identity to a physical location.

Unified Protection Across the Executive Attack Surface

These three advancements address distinct threat surfaces—privacy, identity, discovery, and physical risk. Together, they advance a single mission: ensuring the personal digital lives of executives are never the path of least resistance into an organization. 

BlackCloak is available for private briefings at RSAC 2026 in San Francisco, March 23–26. To request a meeting, visit https://blackcloak.io/rsac-2026/.

About BlackCloak

BlackCloak protects corporate executives, board members, high-profile individuals, and their families from privacy, financial, and other reputational risks. Used by Fortune 500 companies across all industries, the BlackCloak Concierge Cybersecurity & Privacy™ Platform is a comprehensive solution that includes mobile and desktop apps and concierge support. Executives and high-profile individuals gain complete peace of mind knowing their family, reputation, and finances are secured. Companies rest assured that their brand, intellectual property, data, and finances are protected against threats from executives without invading their personal lives. Learn more at www.blackcloak.io and follow us on LinkedIn.

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U.S. Government’s First Federal CISO with Broad Corporate Security Leadership Experience Joins Digital Executive Protection Pioneer

Orlando, FL – March 10, 2026 – BlackCloak, a pioneer in Digital Executive Protection (DEP) for corporate executives, boards of directors, and Family Offices, announced today that veteran security leader Patricia Titus, the first federal CISO credited with creating the Transportation Security Administration’s first information security program, is joining the company’s Advisory Board. 

Currently, Titus is Field CISO at Abnormal AI. She brings more than 25 years of global cybersecurity experience in the corporate sector and U.S. government to BlackCloak. She is one of today’s leading experts in government and enterprise security, as well as in the development of advanced cyber-defense programs, with leadership roles at Booking Holdings, Markel Corporation, Freddie Mac, Symantec, Unisys, and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Titus is also a U.S. Air Force veteran.

Titus joins BlackCloak’s Advisory Board at a pivotal time for the DEP innovator. The company is experiencing significant momentum, having nearly doubled its year-over-year Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in 2025, with DEP achieving recognition as a critical “must-have” component of strategic enterprise cybersecurity. She joins existing BlackCloak Advisory Board members Roland Cloutier and Malcolm Harkins.

“It’s a tremendous honor to welcome such an accomplished security leader to our advisory board.  I first met Patti around 2010 and it’s been amazing to see her career and impact be felt around the halls of some of the largest companies out there.  Patti’s experience in corporate security and understanding of the importance of comprehensive executive protection perfectly align with our vision and mission of safeguarding the world’s most targeted individuals,” said Dr. Chris Pierson, BlackCloak’s Founder and CEO. “As our team continues its passionate work to ensure the highest levels of protection for executives, high-net-worth individuals, and their families, Patti’s expertise and perspective will help us further advance Digital Executive Protection to meet the rising tide of threats and cybercriminal activities against high-profile leaders and their loved ones.”

“I’m thrilled to join BlackCloak’s advisory board and contribute to its work in a high-stakes area most of us would rather ignore: the reality that our digital footprints, when unmonitored and unmanaged, can introduce significant risk in our personal and professional lives,” said Titus. “As humans, a million things can happen in our private lives, and in today’s environment, those events can become public knowledge in an instant. BlackCloak’s DEP capabilities are unmatched and inherently necessary in this rapidly evolving landscape. With the need for digital bodyguards never higher and the demand for this level of personal concierge support never more urgent, the company is well-positioned for explosive growth.”

Throughout her career, Titus has directed the execution of comprehensive security strategies, ensuring alignment with strategic business imperatives and strict compliance with international regulatory standards. 

Noted for her profound knowledge in risk management, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity operations, and crisis management, Titus has a demonstrated history of optimizing security architectures, enhancing organizational resilience, and integrating advanced technologies, specifically AI, into security programs. Currently, she extends her expertise through service on the boards of Black Kite and Glasswing Ventures.

For more information about BlackCloak’s Digital Executive Protection services, visit blackcloak.io.

About BlackCloak

BlackCloak protects corporate executives, board members, high-profile individuals, and their families from privacy, financial, and other reputational risks. Used by Fortune 500 companies across all industries, the BlackCloak Concierge Cybersecurity & Privacy™ Platform is a comprehensive solution that includes mobile and desktop apps, as well as concierge support. Executives and high-profile individuals gain complete peace of mind knowing their family, reputation, and finances are secured. Companies rest assured that their brand, intellectual property, data, and finances are protected against threats from executives without invading their personal lives. Learn more at www.blackcloak.io and follow us on LinkedIn.

Media Contact
Beth Trier
Trier & Co. for BlackCloak
[email protected]