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Who is Black Kite?
Black Kite provides a third-party cyber risk intelligence and scoring platform for enterprises to assess, monitor, and communicate vendor and supply chain security posture.
- Third-party and supply chain cyber risk rating and monitoring platform (security risk management)
- External attack surface and technical cyber posture assessment for vendors and partners (attack surface management)
- Cyber risk quantification mapped to financial exposure and business impact models (cyber risk quantification)
- Compliance and regulatory mapping for third-party ecosystems, including alignment to common security frameworks (compliance management)
- Reporting and workflows for Vendor Risk Management (VRM) teams, security leaders, and boards (governance, risk, and compliance)
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More About Black Kite
Black Kite operates in the third-party and supply chain cyber risk management category, providing an external risk rating and intelligence platform used by enterprises, financial institutions, and public-sector organizations. Its core platform (security risk management) ingests and analyzes externally observable data related to a vendor or partner’s cyber posture, generating standardized cyber risk scores that can be consumed by security, risk, and procurement teams.
The company’s offerings focus on third-party risk lifecycle workflows, from onboarding and due diligence through continuous monitoring. Using techniques aligned with attack surface management (attack surface management), Black Kite evaluates internet-facing assets, potential vulnerabilities, and configuration issues to produce a view of a vendor’s exposure without requiring direct network access. The platform then aggregates these findings into normalized ratings and detailed issue lists that can be integrated into VRM processes.
Black Kite also associates its cyber risk ratings with financial exposure estimates (cyber risk quantification), translating technical findings into probabilistic loss scenarios or cost ranges to support business decision-making. This mapping is often aligned to established cyber risk quantification approaches, enabling comparison across a portfolio of vendors or suppliers. Security and risk teams can use this data to prioritize remediation discussions, negotiate contractual requirements, or align cyber risk with broader enterprise risk registers.
On the compliance front, Black Kite maps vendor posture to widely used security and privacy frameworks (compliance management), such as NIST-based controls, ISO-style control domains, and sector-specific regulatory expectations referenced on its site. This capability allows organizations to compare a supplier’s assessed security posture against internal policy baselines or regulatory obligations, and to identify control areas where further due diligence or documentation is required.
In enterprise environments, Black Kite is typically positioned alongside or integrated with Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) systems, VRM tools, and Security Operations (SecOps) workflows. Its data can supplement questionnaire-based assessments by adding an externally observable, continuously updated signal. Compared with traditional manual vendor assessments, a ratings-based platform can support broader coverage across a large third-party ecosystem and provide near-real-time alerts when a vendor’s observed posture changes, such as new vulnerabilities, exposed services, or credential issues.
From a directory and taxonomy perspective, Black Kite aligns primarily with Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM), cyber risk ratings, attack surface management, and cyber risk quantification solution areas. Its platform is relevant to roles including CISOs, vendor risk managers, procurement officers, enterprise risk managers, and board-level stakeholders who require standardized cyber risk visibility across external relationships.
Our description of Black Kite. Updated December 2025.
