Finn Partners Named US Agency of Record for BlackRidge Technology

Leading Cyber Defense Provider Hires FINN to Showcase How Companies Can Shift the Advantage from Attacker to Defender

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Jan 22, 2019, 09:30 ET

NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackRidge Technology, a global provider of adaptive cyber defense solutions has selected Finn Partners as its communication agency of record. BlackRidge enables a wide variety of organizations to deliver more secure and resilient business services in today's rapidly evolving technology and cyberthreat environments.

FINN's focus includes elevating BlackRidge's profile among IT security decision makers in the government, critical infrastructure and industrial IoT (energy, utilities), health care, and finance and insurance sectors. To do so, the agency will conduct a strategic media and analyst relations and thought leadership program amplified by a content and digital strategy. The assignment is being directed out of the firm's Portland, San Francisco and New York offices, led by Wendy Lane Stevens, managing partner and Lisa Heathman, partner, at LANE, a Finn Partners Company.

"We're very excited to be working with the FINN team to educate our audiences about the importance of shifting the advantage from attackers to defenders with our patented cyber defense technology," said Bob Graham, CEO of BlackRidge Technology. "FINN demonstrated their expertise of this complex and evolving space and brings solid relationships with media, analysts and influencers who are central to reaching our customers and other key stakeholders and to establishing BlackRidge as a leading cyber defense thought leader."

BlackRidge was founded in 2010 to commercialize patented network security technologies originally developed to cloak battlefield assets for the Department of Defense. FINN's communications program will highlight how issues with cybersecurity begin at the point of connection to the Internet itself. To block cyberattacks, BlackRidge's technology authenticates the identity of every user and device at the moment of the first request to connect. Trusted users and devices are instantly allowed in. Anonymous or unauthorized traffic can't even see the network.

"In this era of data breaches, cybersecurity has never been more relevant," said Lane Stevens, "and BlackRidge fundamentally changes the security calculus by shifting the advantage from the attacker to the defender. We're taking on the communications challenge of creating awareness of a technology that makes it possible to bring trust to the Internet."

About Finn Partners, Inc.
Founded in 2011 on the core principles of innovation and collaborative partnership, Finn Partners has grown four-fold in seven years, becoming one of the fastest growing independent public relations agencies in the world. The full-service marketing and communications company's record setting pace is a result of organic growth and integrating new companies and new people into the FINN world through a common philosophy. With 650 professionals, FINN provides its clients with global access and capabilities in the U.S., Europe and Asia, in addition to PROI Worldwide. Headquartered in New York, FINN's other offices are located in Chicago, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, London, Los Angeles, Munich, Nashville, Paris, Portland, San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore and Washington D.C. Find us at finnpartners.com and follow us on Twitter and Instagram at @finnpartners.

About BlackRidge Technology
BlackRidge Technology enables our customers and partners to deliver more secure and resilient business services in today's rapidly evolving cyber threat environments. The BlackRidge adaptive cyber defense solution authenticates identity before allowing network connections to proactively isolate cloud services, protect servers and IoT devices, and segment networks. Our patented technology authenticates user or device identity and enforces security policy on the first packet of network sessions. This new level of real-time protection blocks or redirects unidentified and unauthorized traffic to stop port scanning, cyber-attacks and unauthorized access. BlackRidge was founded in 2010 to commercialize its military grade and patented network security technologies. For more information, visit www.blackridge.us.

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