Overview

Black Kite is a comprehensive cyber risk management platform designed to provide businesses with a 360° view of their cyber posture. Built from a hacker’s perspective, Black Kite offers a non-invasive approach to quantify and monitor cyber risk across thousands of third parties. The platform provides intelligence from technical, financial, and compliance perspectives, eliminating false positives and ensuring a holistic approach to vendor risk management.

Features

• Technical Cyber Rating: Black Kite uses industry-standard MITRE frameworks to convert technical data into digestible findings, providing a trustworthy snapshot of supply chain risk in the form of a letter grade.
• Risk Quantification: Utilizing the Open FAIR™ model, Black Kite calculates the probable financial impact of a third-party breach, communicating risk in quantitative, business-friendly terms.
• Compliance Correlation: The platform’s automated parsing technology maps to globally-recognized standards and frameworks, measuring the external compliance level of target companies and saving time and effort.
• Ransomware Susceptibility Index®: Black Kite is the only cyber rating platform with a tool to detect the likelihood of a ransomware attack, using data analysis techniques and common indicators.
• Standards-Based Data: Ensures transparency in how findings are calculated, providing users with a clear understanding of their cyber risk.
• Unmatched Scalability: Black Kite’s data lake offers visibility into over 34 million companies, with 20+ risk categories and 290 controls, providing comprehensive insights into detected vulnerabilities.
• FocusTags™: Automatically flags vendors who have experienced data breaches, ransomware attacks, or other significant cyber incidents, creating new tags within hours of an event.

Benefits

• Holistic Risk Management: Provides a comprehensive view of cyber risk from technical, financial, and compliance perspectives.
• Enhanced Communication: Converts complex technical data into easy-to-understand findings, facilitating communication between IT and senior stakeholders.
• Time Efficiency: Automated compliance correlation and risk quantification save time and effort for both businesses and their vendors.
• Proactive Security: The Ransomware Susceptibility Index® helps businesses develop informed policies to avoid business interruption and data loss.
• Scalability: Suitable for managing cyber risk across thousands of third parties, with unmatched scalability and data visibility.
• Transparency: Standards-based data ensures users know exactly how their findings are calculated, promoting trust and reliability.