Founding partners Holly and Sarah have spent nearly two decades immersed in the nebulous edges of the world's most challenging systems and people. From active conflict zones to authoritarian regimes to political campaigns, they have designed solutions to keep people safer in dynamic threat environments where there was no precedence and no answers. Their deeply grounded, battle tested approaches to security and safety combine empathy, psychology, technical expertise, and deft organizational management skills to create lasting shifts in communication cultures that are safer, more resilient, and sustainable.

Today, the majority of cyber attacks focus on human engineering rather than network vulnerabilities. Our adversaries know how to exploit our human tendencies. We work fast and on the go, trust that people are who they seem to be, and we wanting to be helpful and will say and click on things we shouldn't. Hackers manipulate nice people. The answer to this sort of manipulation isn’t more technology, but rather arming our workforce with the know-how and instincts to keep your business up and running. In this game of cat and mouse between us and the hackers after our information, we bridge the space between HR and IT -- humans and technology -- to help everyone understand the threats you face and to become your business' first and best line of defense against cyber threats.

Blue Pine Strategies specializes in creating teams of people that are resilient to socially engineered attacks. Our work enhances the effectiveness of traditional, often technical, cyber security measures by ensuring that the people who have access to your network, systems, and data can keep them secure. Through easy conversation, exercises, game play and simulation, our talented team will guide you through the complex landscape of threats and bring you to a place of clarity and focus to create and deepen your team's digital security culture. We’ve worked with teams large and small, from tech companies in the southern US to networks of human rights defenders in the former Soviet States. Blue Pine Strategies includes an expert team of psychologists, cyber security analysts, and digital security specialists to provide your team with holistic support.