BlackCloak

BlackCloak is the pioneer of Digital Executive Protection, a category of personal cybersecurity built to protect the private digital lives of corporate leaders, boards of directors, public figures, and high-net-worth individuals and their families. The company’s mission is to protect the digital lives of those at great risk—safeguarding their personal reputation, finances, and information from cyberattack.

The company delivers online privacy protection, personal device security, home network security, and incident response through its SaaS-based Concierge Cybersecurity & Privacy Platform. These capabilities are designed to keep threats that originate in an executive’s personal life from moving laterally into the organizations they serve, while also defending uniquely targeted individuals against hacking, financial fraud, identity theft, and reputation damage.

BlackCloak’s customers include C-suite executives, board members, venture capitalists, celebrities, athletes, high-profile and high-net-worth individuals, their families, and family offices. As described in the company’s own account of its founding, cybercriminals were increasingly targeting high-profile people for their financial value, extortion and reputational harm, and as an indirect gateway to the companies they are affiliated with.

Founded in 2018 by Christopher Pierson, BlackCloak is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, and operates as a fully-remote, purpose-driven organization. The company grew out of a year spent interviewing and understanding the needs of at-risk individuals and their families, after its founders found the personal cybersecurity space lacking a comprehensive solution and decided to build one from the ground up.

According to the company, BlackCloak’s name reflects its approach: black represents power, eliteness, stealth, trust and quality, while “cloak” represents an all-encompassing and adaptable shield that hides members from bad actors so they can focus on what matters most.

BlackCloak describes its culture as prioritizing diversity and inclusion, encouraging debate, and celebrating individual achievement, with teamwork and collaboration at the center of its work. Its stated values include respecting all with humility and patience, empathizing with others and investing in their success, innovating with speed, passion and curiosity, acting as an owner and as one team, and delighting beyond expectations.

The company’s careers page lists benefits including fully remote work, flexible hours, medical, dental and vision coverage, an HSA, equity, a 401K with employer match, a home office stipend, a generous vacation policy, and periodic offsites. BlackCloak has been recognized as a workplace, including on Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Best Places to Work list and Inc. Magazine’s 2025 Best Workplaces list.