Partnership Unveiled at Black Hat USA 2025 Addresses Critical Gap in Small-to-Midsize Enterprise Cybersecurity
Las Vegas, NV — August 5, 2025 — NINJIO, a leading human risk management solution, and Defendify, a leading IT security platform, today announced a strategic partnership at Black Hat USA 2025 to address one of the most persistent challenges facing small and midsize organizations: achieving comprehensive cybersecurity protection without the complexity of managing multiple vendors or the expense of building dedicated security teams.
The groundbreaking partnership integrates NINJIO’s advanced cybersecurity awareness training and human risk management platform with Defendify’s comprehensive cybersecurity tools suite, creating the industry’s first truly unified human-and-IT security solution designed specifically for resource-constrained organizations.
“Cybersecurity leaders have asked us to help them reduce risk from both their people and systems, and they need these processes to work together seamlessly,” said Gary Noke, President & CEO of NINJIO, announcing the partnership from the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas. “This partnership represents a fundamental shift from fragmented point solutions to a coordinated defense strategy that recognizes the critical interplay between human behavior and technical security controls.”
The collaboration directly addresses a market reality that has left many organizations vulnerable: cybersecurity tools are only as effective as the people using them, while security training loses impact without robust technical safeguards to reinforce lessons learned. By combining these traditionally separate approaches, the partnership creates a force multiplier effect for organizational security.
“Our customers consistently told us they understood the need for both comprehensive employee awareness training and multiple layers of technical protection, but managing disparate vendor relationships was creating operational overhead that smaller organizations simply couldn’t sustain,” explained Rob Simopoulos, CEO and Co-Founder of Defendify. “This partnership eliminates that friction while delivering superior security outcomes through integrated human and technical risk management.”
The strategic alliance acknowledges that modern cyber threats target both human psychology and technical vulnerabilities simultaneously. The reality remains, well-trained employees can fall victim to sophisticated social engineering attacks, and even the most advanced security systems can be circumvented by attackers who successfully manipulate human behavior. The combined solution creates overlapping defensive layers that continuously address both attack vectors.
Under the partnership, NINJIO will integrate Defendify’s complete platform of cybersecurity tools—including managed detection and response (MDR), endpoint protection, vulnerability management, penetration testing, and more—with their proprietary cybersecurity awareness training and simulated phishing technologies. This creates a single-vendor solution that provides comprehensive coverage across a broad and ever-evolving threat landscape.
The timing of the announcement at Black Hat USA 2025 underscores the partnership’s significance within the cybersecurity community, as industry leaders gather to discuss the latest threats and defensive strategies. The combined solution is now available to new and existing customers of both companies, with migration support provided for organizations currently using separate solutions.
About NINJIO
NINJIO’s human risk mitigation platform reduces cybersecurity risk through personalized security coaching, engaging awareness training, and adaptive testing. Our multi-pronged approach to risk mitigation focuses on the latest attack vectors to build employee knowledge and the behavioral science behind social engineering to sharpen users’ intuition. Our simulated phishing and coaching tools build a proprietary Emotional Susceptibility Profile for each user to identify their specific social engineering vulnerabilities and change behavior. For more information: www.ninjio.com.
About Defendify
Defendify is pioneering cybersecurity for scaling organizations. Delivering multiple layers of protection, Defendify provides cybersecurity expertise and support through an all-in-one platform designed to continuously strengthen cybersecurity across people, process, and technology. Defendify streamlines cybersecurity assessments, testing, policies, training, detection, and response in one consolidated and cost-effective cybersecurity solution. Take the next step towards robust cybersecurity at www.defendify.com.
