Blackfort Technology

Founded in 2017, Blackfort Technology is a cybersecurity company based in Bonn, Germany working in penetration testing, identity & access, ot/ics security +5 more.

Blackfort Technology is an owner-managed information security consultancy based in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, founded in 2017 by Christian Gebhardt. It works at the interface between regulatory requirements and technical implementation, covering ISMS and compliance consulting (NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001, BSI IT-Grundschutz, BSI C5, IEC 62443, TKG 166, Cyber Resilience Act) as well as technical services. These include penetration testing, web application and Active Directory security testing, red team exercises, PKI and certificate management, system hardening, SBOM management, centralised logging with SIEM integration, and cloud security reviews. The company also acts as external information security officer and supports AI security, including LLM pentesting and AI governance. Its in-house products are the Blackfort Privileged Access Bridge (PAM), the Blackfort Log Vault (tamper-protected log archiving), the Blackfort Security Bridge (Defender-to-Jira vulnerability ticketing) and the Blackfort Threat Exposure Filter (CERT/CVE alert filtering). The company serves regulated sectors including finance and insurance, healthcare, energy and critical infrastructure, telecommunications, IT service providers and manufacturing. It is a partner of the Alliance for Cyber Security and has a permanent member on its AI working group.