Rob Black Email & Phone Number

Auburndale, Massachusetts, Us

Our team helps business leaders manage risk and grow their companies by providing tailored cybersecurity programs.Title changed to reflect my evolving role.

Auburndale, Massachusetts, Us

Rob Black, CISSP, is the Founder and Managing Principal of Fractional CISO. He helps organizations reduce their cybersecurity risk as a Virtual CISO. Rob is the inventor of three security patents. He consults, speaks, and writes on IoT and security.Fractional CISO enables client sales, reduces its risk and helps them comply with cybersecurity standards by providing expert cybersecurity advise. Medium sized companies turn to Fractional CISO to:• Assess their cybersecurity posture.• Create cybersecurity plans• Execute the cybersecurity plan• Tell their cybersecurity story• Comply with cybersecurity regulations and standardsSpecific deliverables include:• Gap assessments• Risk assessments• Cybersecurity plans• Cybersecurity project management• Cybersecurity advice• SOC 2 assistance• ISO 27001 assistance

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for Product Management for PTC’s IoT platform • First Product Management leader for ThingWorx - drove revenue from trivial amount to tens of millions.• Responsible for IoT division application security• Led many security initiatives resulting in significant improvement in product and corporate security - including initiating threat modeling, implementing software maturity framework, driving security training, improving application security testing, implementing vulnerability management and improving vulnerability resolution• Materially improved organization’s overall security posture by delivering security training to multiple audiences• Developed and rolled out ThingWorx security positioning which allowed for successful closing of tens of deals resulting in millions in revenue• Wrote white papers and blog posts to positively position ThingWorx especially its security posture in the marketplace• Delivered hundreds of presentations to customers, conferences, partners, press and other constituents to positively position ThingWorx• Assembled product management and security teams to accomplish business objectives• Led cross functional teams to deliver multiple product releases

Responsible for Product Management for Axeda's IoT platform• Drove product roadmap to help enable successful $170 million sale of business• Assembled product management and security teams to accomplish business objectives• Transformed on-premise Internet of Things (IoT) software to IoT Cloud/SaaS platform• Led cross functional teams to deliver multiple product releases• Responsible for product application security• Led many security initiatives resulting in significant improvement in product and corporate security - including initiating threat modeling, driving security training, improving application security testing, implementing vulnerability management, improving vulnerability resolution and driving many operational security improvements to cloud hosting• Materially improved organization’s overall security posture by delivering security training to multiple audiences• Delivered many presentations to customers, conferences, partners, press and other constituents to positively position Axeda

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Responsible for Product Management of flagship product, SecurID• Drove product and operational security improvements• Key remediation contributor to well publicized breach by hostile nation-state• Inventor of three security patents

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Marlborough, Ma, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

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Mba, Marketing & Finance

B.S, Computer Science; System Science And Engineering