Continuous monitoring
Security analysts monitor your network and workstations for internal and external threats, around the clock rather than during business hours.
Operations Center →
Woman-owned · Detroit, Michigan · Since 2015
We attack the way they attack. Then we stop them.
Blackbourne Worldwide uses the most elite and sophisticated attack vectors, methodologies and processes that black-hat operators use to infiltrate and hold access in an organisation — under written authorisation, so you find out before someone else does.
100%Woman-owned business
24/7/365Threat monitoring and response
<30 minEmergency Response Team containment
5WForensic investigation on every attack
What we do
Offensive security, human-layer testing and the operations centre behind both.
Four service lines, one research function, and a monitoring capability that runs every hour of the year.
Social EngineeringThe human element, tested properly
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Penetration Testing & Red TeamReal-world attack simulation
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Security Research & Malware AnalysisReverse engineering and R&D
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Secure Source ReviewCode and architecture review
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Cyber Forensics & Incident ResponseWho, what, when, why and how
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Cyber Warfare Operations Center24/7/365 monitoring and response
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The human element
Every system has a person in it.
Firewalls, EDR and MFA are necessary and, given enough time, they are all bypassed the same way — through a person who has the access and a reason to use it. Our proprietary social engineering platform exists to test that path properly, because it is the one most organisations assess by intuition.
We focus on the weakest element of any system: the human. Our attacks are built from research on your business, your applications and your software, so a target cannot dismiss the attempt as generic.
“A master of the human psyche, who may at a moment's notice bend the will of another human to fit his own, a hacker of the human mind.”
Social Engineer — Blackbourne WorldwideOperations
A centre that never closes.
Our Cyber Warfare Operations Center is a state of the art threat monitoring and response facility operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Containment in under 30 minutes
Our Emergency Response Team isolates and mitigates threats in under 30 minutes, with the authority to act already agreed before an incident starts.
Emergency response →Investigation on every attack
With every attack we initiate a full-scale cyber-forensic investigation: who, what, when, why and how. Malware recovered is reverse engineered by our R&D department.
Cyber forensics →Engagement
How an engagement runs.
Scope and authorisation
Objectives, targets, stop conditions and the legal authorisation, in writing, before anything is tested.
Research and build
Open-source research on your organisation, applications and people. Attack paths built specifically for you.
Execute
The campaign runs to the agreed scope, with findings and evidence captured as they are produced.
Investigate and harden
Full forensic review, malware analysis, and the hardening and detection work that follows from it.
Training
Certifications that teach the human layer.
We run certificate training in the disciplines our own operators practise daily. These are working courses: participants leave with technique and a reporting habit, not a slide deck.
Ethical Social Engineering (ESE)
Defensive Social Engineering (DSE)
Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)
| Certification | Built for |
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| Ethical Social Engineering ESE | Red team operators, penetration testers, and internal security teams building an offensive human-layer capability. |
| Defensive Social Engineering DSE | Security awareness leads, risk and compliance teams, HR and operations managers, and SOC staff who handle vishing reports. |
| Advanced Persistent Threat APT | SOC analysts, incident responders, threat intelligence staff and infrastructure teams. |
Under active attack? Our Emergency Response Team contains threats in under 30 minutes.
24/7/365 incident line, staffed by the same analysts who monitor the Operations Center.
Emergency response
Start with a conversation about your exposure.
Tell us what you are protecting and what has prompted the review — an audit, a board question, or an incident you would rather not repeat. We will tell you what we would test and why.