
An ethical hacker kept finding the same weakness outside the fortress. He turned that recurring clue into Black Kite - and a career spent making invisible supplier risk legible.

In 2018, Jessica Stanford warned that attackers would slip through the smaller companies around the perimeter. Seven years and several cybersecurity startups later, that old prediction became her new brief.
Paul Paget is the CEO of Black Kite, a Boston-based third-party cyber risk platform he joined in 2019 after a career running cybersecurity companies including PwnieExpress, Savant Protection, and Core Security Technologies. A Bowdoin history major turned career security operator, he has built and sold a string of security businesses and now leads Black Kite in the security ratings market.