# About Blackbird Cyber

> Blackbird Cyber was founded in 2026 to give critical infrastructure operators an OT security partner who has stood in a control room at 3 AM. We protect the water, power, fuel and defense systems that keep people alive and defended, and we keep them running while we do it.

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## Built by an engineer who has run the plant, not just assessed it.

Blackbird Cyber was founded in 2026 to give critical infrastructure operators an OT security partner who has stood in a control room at 3 AM. We protect the water, power, fuel and defense systems that keep people alive and defended, and we keep them running while we do it.

## Founder

**Matthew McManus**, Founder & principal engineer. B.S. Cybersecurity and Information Assurance.

OT/ICS cybersecurity engineer with six-plus years securing critical infrastructure, industrial control systems and government networks. Designs and builds segmented control networks, Industrial DMZs, secure SCADA communications and ICS monitoring aligned to NIST SP 800-82, the Purdue model and NIST CSF. US citizen with an active Secret clearance.

## Certifications — Credentials that map to the industry standard.

- GICSP (GIAC): Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional
- GRID (GIAC): Response and Industrial Defense
- GCTI (GIAC): Cyber Threat Intelligence
- CISSP (ISC2): Certified Information Systems Security Professional
- CASP+ / SecurityX (CompTIA): Advanced Security Practitioner
- CySA+ · PenTest+ · Network+ (CompTIA): Analyst, penetration testing, networking
- Azure Administrator (Microsoft): AZ-104
- ITIL 4 Foundation (PeopleCert): PeopleCert · IT service management

## Mission

Protecting humanity's critical infrastructure.

- **Availability is the first control**: A security change that stops the process is a failure. We design inside outage windows and never scan live control networks.
- **Operators first**: We speak to the people who run the plant before we speak to the people who fund it. Findings are written for both.
- **Consequence over compliance**: Standards are the floor. We rank every gap by what it lets an adversary do to the physical process.