Black Kite

Black Kite is a cyber risk management company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The company provides technology for continuously assessing and monitoring the cybersecurity posture of third parties, suppliers and other external organizations. Black Kite's platform uses external data and security intelligence to generate cyber risk assessments and help organizations identify vendors that may present elevated exposure. Its capabilities include third-party risk management, cyber risk ratings, ransomware intelligence, attack surface monitoring and cyber risk quantification. The company has developed automated assessment workflows designed to reduce the time required to evaluate suppliers during onboarding and ongoing reviews. Black Kite also provides financial risk quantification using frameworks such as Open FAIR to help security and risk leaders translate cyber exposure into potential business impact. Its ransomware intelligence capabilities analyze external signals associated with organizations before and after ransomware events, helping customers understand supplier exposure and prioritize remediation. Black Kite serves enterprises, financial institutions, insurers and organizations with large supplier ecosystems. Its platform can integrate cyber risk information into procurement, governance and security workflows. The company focuses strongly on continuous monitoring rather than one-time questionnaires, allowing teams to identify changes in third-party risk over time. Its technology is particularly relevant to organizations that need scalable vendor risk visibility across large ecosystems.