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I recently acquired a blood angels army, and I'm not entirely certain about a rules interpretation I've come across.

Death Company have the Black Rage special rule, which makes them non-scoring. D.C. Dread Naughts, on the other hand, do not, and there is nothing in the errata that I can find that says otherwise; So, they are scoring units.
However, I want to know if they are objective secured.

They are listed as a troops choice in the army section. The person who gave me the army said that you can purchase one without taking up a force-org. slot for every five D.C. you purchase.
That's not what it says, though.
The exact rule says that you are allowed to purchase a D.C. Dread Naught for every five D.C. you have, that is true, but it does not say anywhere that they do not take up a force-org. slot. So, from what I can tell, they are a troops choice that has a restriction on how many you can take based off the number of D.C. you have in the army. Being a troops choice, if they were in a bound army, that would also make them objective secured.

Is that right, or am I missing something?

You are correct. The person who gave you the army is wrong.

It's worth pointing out that having a bound army isn't what gives troops Objective Secured. It's being in a detachment that gives troops ObjSec (like a Combined Arms or Allied detachment) that does it.

Yes, as are their drop pods should you take them, as are the Death Company Marines' drop pods should you take them also.

Interesting note. The Death Company themselves have Objective Secured as well, they just don't score therefore it doesn't matter

 Mulletdude wrote:
Interesting note. The Death Company themselves have Objective Secured as well, they just don't score therefore it doesn't matter

Actually, it does. It prevents ObSec units from scoring.