Black Glass Advisors

Know your cyber risk.
Know your next move.

We give leadership a clear, defensible view of where they stand — and a plan built to be acted on.

Named for the obsidian of the high desert — forged under pressure into the sharpest edge in nature.

The path: The Review tells you where to go. ➞ Command gets you there.
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The Black Glass Review

Cyber Risk Diagnostic & Strategic Roadmap

See where you stand — and where to go next.

A focused executive engagement that gives leadership a clear, defensible view of where the organization stands on cyber risk, and a concrete plan to act on it. Not a binder of technical findings — a shared, board-level understanding of your exposure.

What it covers
  • Current-state assessment of your security posture
  • Gap analysis against the threats and obligations that matter to your business
  • A board-ready risk register
  • A prioritized remediation plan
  • A strategic roadmap, sequenced so execution can begin the moment the Review ends
What you walk away with

A shared, board-level understanding of your exposure — and a clear answer to the question executives actually ask: where do we invest next, and why?

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Black Glass Command

Fractional vCISO

We don't just hand you the roadmap. We run it.

Senior security leadership on a fractional footing — accountable for turning the roadmap into measurable progress. A hand on the tiller for organizations that need real security leadership but can't justify a full-time CISO.

What it covers
  • Ongoing ownership and governance of the security roadmap
  • Executive- and board-level reporting
  • A risk register maintained as a living document
  • Vendor, audit, and project oversight
  • A senior security leader in the room when decisions get made
Who it's for

Organizations that need real security leadership but don't need — or can't justify — a full-time CISO.

About Black Glass

When you engage Black Glass, a 25-year practitioner is in the room — not a junior analyst with a methodology deck.

Black Glass Advisors was founded on a quarter-century in IT and security — work that spans technology, software, telecommunications, healthcare, and the defense industrial base. Five demanding industries, each with its own threat model, its own regulators, and its own definition of an acceptable risk.

That range matters because cyber risk doesn't look the same in a hospital as it does in a defense supplier. Advice that ignores the difference isn't strategy — it's a template.

Black Glass is also built by a founder, not only an advisor. Before this firm, he founded and brought security products to market — a consumer privacy platform with early dark-web analysis, and a B2B social-engineering simulator with in-the-moment training. He has built security tools, shipped them, and stood behind them. The roadmaps Black Glass hands you are written by someone who has had to execute one.

The firm takes its name from the obsidian of the Central Oregon high desert — volcanic glass, forged under pressure into the sharpest edge in nature. From Bend, Oregon, that's the standard the work is held to: a sharper edge on risk, and an organization measurably more secure for it.

25+ Years across IT & security leadership
5 Industries — technology, software, telecommunications, healthcare, and the defense industrial base
2 Cybersecurity products founded and brought to market

The high desert forged the sharpest edge in nature. We brought it to cybersecurity.