In this exclusive article for Cyber Defense Magazine’s RSA edition, BlackCloak CEO, Chris Pierson writes about the expanding attack surface, the threats posed to both individuals and the company, and how to reduce risk by protecting personal digital lives.
Read the Article: Protect Your Executives’ Personal Digital Lives to Protect Your Company
San Francisco & Orlando – June 6, 2022 – BlackCloak, the leading provider of digital executive protection for executives, high-profile, and high-net-worth individuals and their families, today announced that it has been named the winner of Cyber Defense Magazine’s Global Infosec Awards 2022 in the category of “Next Generation Digital Executive Protection.” This is the second year in a row that Cyber Defense Magazine judges have recognized BlackCloak for their approach to helping protect the enterprise by protecting the personal digital lives of company leaders.
“BlackCloak embodies three major features we judges look for to become winners: understanding tomorrow’s threats, today, providing a cost-effective solution and innovating in unexpected ways that can help mitigate cyber risk and get one step ahead of the next breach,” said Gary S. Miliefsky, Publisher of Cyber Defense Magazine.
Today’s recognition is the latest in a number of award wins for BlackCloak in 2022. Recently, the Family Wealth Report named BlackCloak “Best Cybersecurity” for wealth management and family office clients. Earlier this year, BlackCloak was named “Hot Security Tech of the Year” by the Cybersecurity Global Excellence Awards and “Best Privacy Protection Platform” by the Cyber Excellence Awards.
“The line of demarcation that once existed between an executive’s personal digital life and their professional life is no longer a deterrent for cybercriminals, hackers, and identity thieves,” said Dr. Chris Pierson, BlackCloak’s Founder & CEO. “As the attack surface continues to expand, BlackCloak will continue to protect our members when and where their security teams lose control, in their personal digital lives. We’re thankful to the judges and Cyber Defense Magazine for recognizing our unique value within the cybersecurity ecosystem.”
Meet BlackCloak at RSA
Throughout RSA 2022 Dr. Pierson will participate in three panel discussions. Two will be available for all conference attendees while the third will stream live on BrightTalk and subsequently be available on demand.
Meetings with Dr. Pierson or a BlackCloak executive are also available upon request, and can be scheduled on BlackCloak’s RSA page.
For more information on digital executive protection, visit BlackCloak.io and follow BlackCloak on LinkedIn.
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This article explains how cybersecurity and online privacy risks originating in the personal digital lives of high-profile employees present several challenges that enterprise security teams cannot solve alone, even if they wanted to.
Read the Article: The Challenge Digital Executive Protection Poses to Enterprise Security Teams
In a video interview with Help Net Security, CEO Chris Pierson reveals how the attack surface has expanded, with top executives and their families increasingly being targeted on their personal devices and home networks, as cybercriminals look for new ways to bypass corporate security and get direct access to finances and sensitive data.
Watch the Video: How cybercriminals are targeting executives at home and their families
Chris Pierson comments on a recent data breach and how the leaked information could be used to deploy business email compromise and other types of social engineering attacks.
Read the Article: Leaky database exposes job seekers to phishing attacks
As summer 2022 begins, CEO Chris Pierson tells TheStreet that “before people embark on a trip, they should backup their devices so they can retrieve documents later, ensure all devices are encrypted and turn on the “lost device” recovery functions to track devices.”
Read the Article: Common Vacation Scams and How to Avoid Them
In this guest article for Cyber Defense Magazine, BlackCloak CEO Dr. Chris Pierson explains why the future of executive cybersecurity includes protecting the C-Suite, Board Members, ahd high-profile employees in their personal digital lives.
Read the Article: Executive Protection Needs to Include Digital
Dr. Chris Pierson talks to Philadelphia’s ABC affiliate about cryptocurrency scams, the need to create unique, long and complex passwords for all digital currency accounts, and how multi-factor authentication can help protect accounts should a data breach leak login credentials online.
Read the Article: Experts issue warning to protect your cryptocurrency accounts
Cybercriminals are attacking executives and board members in their personal digital lives. This article explains how this threat adds additional risk to the enterprise, and how it is a problem that CISOs and security teams cannot solve.
Read the Article: Executives’ Personal Digital Lives are the Soft-Underbelly of Enterprise Security
Orlando — May 19, 2022 — BlackCloak, a leader in digital protection for executives, high-profile, and high-net-worth individuals and their families, today announced that it has been awarded “Best Cybersecurity” for Family Office and wealth management clients at the 9th Annual Family Wealth Report Awards. This is the fifth award win for BlackCloak in 2022, and the second specific to wealth and asset managers, and their clients. Earlier this year, BlackCloak won “Best Cyber & Network Security” at the WealthTech America’s Awards.
“The organizations and individuals who triumphed in these awards are all worthy winners, and I would like to extend my heartiest congratulations to those who have put so much work into each winning submission,” said ClearView Financial Media’s CEO, and Publisher of Family Wealth Report, Stephen Harris. “These awards recognize the very best operators in the North American family office and wealth management space, with ‘independence’, ‘integrity’ and ‘genuine insight’ the watchwords of the judging process – such that the awards truly reflect excellence in American wealth management.”
The annual Family Wealth Report Awards is part of a global program run by ClearView Financial Media and its sister publications WealthBriefing and WealthBriefingAsia. It showcases ‘best of breed’ organizations in North America that have demonstrated innovation and excellence during the last year. Each category is highly contested and subject to a rigorous judging process. Specifically, BlackCloak was awarded for “going beyond protecting cyber threats to the business, bridging the gap by protecting executives and their families’ professional and personal data.”
“It’s an honor for our whole team to once again be recognized as the preeminent cybersecurity and privacy solution for wealthy individuals and their families, the vast majority of whom have very little time but a lot to lose,” said Dr. Chris Pierson, BlackCloak’s Founder & CEO. “Moving forward, we will continue to innovate in response to, and in anticipation of, cybercriminals continuing to tailor their attacks towards vulnerable individuals and their families of significant wealth and status.”
In today’s cybersecurity threat landscape, cybercriminals, hackers, and identity thieves are determined to compromise the wealth, assets, access, and status that Family Office and wealth management clients have worked so hard to achieve. Through its SaaS-based Concierge Cybersecurity & Privacy PlatformTM, BlackCloak protects the online privacy, personal devices and home networks of uniquely at-risk individuals from cyberattack, online fraud, identity theft, reputation damage and more.
To learn how BlackCloak partners with leading wealth management firms and Family Offices to bring digital protection to their clients, visit their Partner Page and download “5 Reasons Family Offices & Private Wealth Managers Choose BlackCloak For Clients.”
About BlackCloak
BlackCloak protects corporate executives, high-net-worth, and high-profile individuals from cybersecurity, privacy, financial, and other reputational risks. Used by Fortune 500 companies across all industries, the BlackCloak Concierge Cybersecurity & Privacy™ Platform is a holistic solution including mobile and desktop apps as well as concierge support. Executives and high-profile individuals get 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 coming through executives without having to invade their personal lives. Learn more at www.blackcloak.io, follow them on Twitter @BlackCloakCyber, or watch the product video.
About ClearView Financial Media Ltd.
ClearView Financial Media was founded by Chief Executive, Stephen Harris in 2004, to provide high quality ‘need to know’ information for the discerning private client community. London-based, but with a truly global focus, ClearView publishes the WealthBriefing group of newswires, along with research reports and newsletters, while also running a pan-global thought-leadership events and awards program.
