About Blackwing Intelligence

Blackwing Intelligence is a boutique firm specializing in cyber security research and services. Our team is made up of researchers with decades of experience in security engineering and offensive research.

This is our passion — we’re hackers — we dream in code and live to find new ways to break things. There’s no bench here. Every person on a project’s technical team is hand-picked and has spent years finding and exploiting real vulnerabilities in shipping products.

Our team deliberately remains small so we can focus on our first principle: excellence over anything else. It permeates everything we do — who we hire, who we work with, what we deliver. While others focus on growing, we’re grinding.

Blackwing Intelligence was formed in 2005 to provide a higher level of security consulting in an industry dominated by cheap, compliance-driven service offerings.

Our founding technical team first came together to compete in DEF CON capture-the-flag — the preeminent hacking competition. We took first place - twice!

Since then we’ve made a habit of finding and exploiting deep vulnerabilities in the world’s most trusted products, from OS kernels to cloud computing platforms to secure embedded processors. Our research team is our client team. See our published research.

Of course, our published work only tells a small part of the story. Most of our work is never cleared for public release, but we are trusted by some of the most important tech companies in the world to help them secure critical systems at billion-device scale.

When you work with us, you’ll notice a difference. No padded reports full of fluff and false positives. No generic recommendations. Just concrete proof and actionable advice for making your systems resilient to attack. See services for more detail.

Our work has been featured by top media outlets worldwide. See press for a sampling.

Interested in joining the team? See careers.