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🎉 Official Welcome: BLACKCLOAK Joins ITSPmagazine’s BlackHat USA 2025 Coverage

We are pleased to welcome BlackCloak as a Full Sponsor of our On Location Coverage at #BlackHat USA 2025 in Las Vegas.

Hey Chris Pierson, let's see if we can get creative and top this shot!🤘✨
Looking forward to see you and have another great chat!

#BlackCloak is a pioneer in Digital Executive Protection, delivering #cybersecurity and privacy solutions tailored for high-net-worth individuals, corporate executives, and their families. As #cybercriminals increasingly target the personal lives of business leaders to gain access to enterprise networks, BlackCloak provides a critical layer of defense — extending security beyond the office and into the home.

With a blend of cutting-edge technology and white-glove service, BlackCloak protects against threats like personal data leaks, home network intrusions, device compromise, and digital surveillance.

Check out #BlackCloack's Website here: itspm.ag/itspbcweb

📌 Visit BlackCloak’s page on ITSPmagazine to learn more about their mission and presence in our Black Hat coverage:
👉 itspmagazine.com/directory/bla

📰 Explore our full Black Hat USA 2025 coverage here:
👉 itspmagazine.com/bhusa25

Since 2015, Black Hat has been a cornerstone event for ITSPmagazine, and we’re proud to continue spotlighting the companies and people shaping the future of cybersecurity. Our 2025 program includes exclusive on-site interviews, sponsored briefings, and editorial features designed to share timely insights with our global audience.

📣 There is still time to join this year’s coverage:
✔️ 2 Full Sponsorship Opportunities Remaining
✔️ A VERY Limited Number of On Location Briefings Available

🔗 Learn more and reserve your spot:
• Sponsorships: itspmagazine.com/event-coverag
• Briefings: itspmagazine.com/event-coverag

We thank the team at BlackCloak for supporting our 2025 Black Hat USA coverage — we look forward to sharing their story from the floor in Las Vegas.

Marco Ciappelli & Sean Martin, CISSP

Journalists face extra risks at US borders: CBP can search devices and jeopardize source confidentiality. 🛂💻 Freedom of the Press Foundation shares a crucial checklist to prep your tech, minimize exposure, and keep your data safe. Read more: freedom.press/digisec/blog/bor #PressFreedom #DigitalSecurity #BorderCrossing #privacy #security

Freedom of the PressPreparing devices for travel through a US borderUS border searches of electronic devices put journalists’ work at risk. But there’s a lot you can do to be prepared

When teaching people about digital security for everyday people & organizers, is there are tool that anyone can recommend **for threat modeling, specifically?**

Folks can often fall into security nihilism or an extreme belief that anything technically possible, even if resource intensive, is likely to come to pass with them as a target, so I'd like to start by getting people grounded in likely threats they should be thinking about.

🛡️ "#DigitalSecurity for #Journalists in Times of Crisis" 🌐 Join the free online course offered by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas and the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN). Learn how to protect your accounts, devices, communications, and sensitive information using practical tools and strategies. 👉 journalismcourses.org/product/ #Journalism #CyberSecurity 🔒 #DataProtection #DigitalAutonomy

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(2) Два роки тому проводили першу велику конференцію для українського телекому – планували як відновлювати роботу інтернет-провайдерів.

В результаті – інвестували більше 125 тисяч канадських доларів на купівлю батарей для прифронтових провайдерів.

Також продовжуємо захищати безплатно українські сайти від #DDoS атак, список значно поповнився, але найважливіші клієнти прийшли саме в 2022 та 2023 роках

(1) 🇺🇦 👏 Два роки тому екс-колеги з ГО "Інтерньюз-Україна" підбивали підсумки першого року роботи нашого проєкту від eQualitie, що включає й децентралізовані комунікації #dComms

Цікаво дивитися на ретроспективу й розуміти, як зросли за останні два роки вже самостійно.

🧠 Heading to a protest? Protect yourself from gov surveillance before you get there.

🔐 Use Signal, not SMS.
📴 Airplane mode > just "silent."
📵 No face unlock.
🎭 Mask up. Both kinds help.
🕵️ Don’t post live from the scene if it includes others' faces or locations.

We stand for privacy, protection, and public action.

📚 Full guide via @Wired@msdtdn.social 👉🏽 wired.com/story/the-wired-guid

WIRED · The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government SurveillanceBy Andy Greenberg