Black Kite announces its bi-directional technology integration with CrowdStrike, delivering continuous external vendor risk telemetry data into CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM. Through integration of external supply chain threats with internal enterprise telemetry, internal threat intelligence, and artificial intelligence, this architecture gives Security Operations Centers (SOCs) the visibility and automation capabilities that are needed to stop third-party attacks before any lateral movements take place.
Getting Rid of the Blind Spot for Third-Parties in Enterprise SOC Operations
Defense teams within the enterprise face critical challenges in terms of operational exposure from external vendors, partners, and software providers. As contemporary SOC departments analyze tens of thousands of internal telemetry signals daily, the analyst does not have any visibility into the third-party risks of ransomware or software vulnerabilities present in their vendor ecosystem.
This is due to the fact that traditional vendor risk assessments are disconnected and manual processes that do not work in tandem with security operations.
This is because traditional vendor risk management assessments are disconnected from other security processes and are manual, meaning that emerging supply chain risks often go unnoticed until an attack has occurred.
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CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM addresses these analytical demands by delivering search performance up to 150 times faster than legacy SIEM architectures and alternative platforms, while reducing the three-year total cost of ownership by up to 80%. Embedding Black Kite’s risk intelligence directly into this environment enables joint security teams to eliminate context-switching and evaluate external supplier posture alongside internal endpoint, cloud, and identity telemetry within a unified console.
Key Capabilities and SOC Performance Advantages
The unified integration establishes an end-to-end operational framework that automates third-party vulnerability management from initial discovery through vendor remediation:
Contextual Threat Detection and Risk Profiling: SOC professionals can detect sneaky threats and identify upstream risks by leveraging Black Kite’s AI-powered intelligence. It covers live Ransomware Susceptibility Index® (RSI™) calculation, customized FocusTags® to highlight specific risk areas, and comprehensive vendor risk assessment that evaluates technical hygiene, financial well-being, and regulatory compliance levels.
Automated Investigation using Agentic SOAR: Top vulnerabilities, which have been rated on the basis of criticality, data accuracy, and EPSS scores, are fed directly into Falcon Next-gen SIEM platform. The ingestion of these vulnerabilities automatically triggers investigation via Charlotte Agentic SOAR playbooks.
Streamlined Remediation via The Bridge™: Security teams can dispatch remediation directives directly to impacted external suppliers through Black Kite’s integrated communication portal, The Bridge™. Closed-loop operational metrics-including vendor onboarding rates, mean time to resolve FocusTags®, and average days to resolve high-severity findings-return directly to the Falcon SIEM console, accelerating incident response timelines by 5x.
Executives get one dashboard showing the whole outside risk picture. It pulls together cyber health ratings, Data Breach Indicators (DBI), and FAIR loss models in dollars, so leaders can tell stakeholders how the program is doing and how much risk has actually come down.
“Third-party breaches account for a significant share of the incidents our customers respond to, yet most SOC workflows have no mechanism to surface that risk until it’s an active incident. This integration puts Black Kite‘s open standards-based cyber risk intelligence – RSI™ scores, FocusTags®, aggregated vendor ratings – directly into the CrowdStrike environment where analysts are already working. The result is a security operations team that can investigate, prioritize, and remediate third-party exposure the same way they handle any other threat: fast, automated, and at scale.” said Chuck Schauber, Chief Product Officer, Black Kite.
