Black Kite Third-Party Cyber Risk vs Drata

Black Kite Third-Party Cyber Risk is a web platform for monitoring and assessing cyber risk across vendor portfolios and extended supply chains. It provides visibility from first-party posture through fifth-party exposure, flags suppliers, software products, and geographies as possible single points of failure, and maps downstream exposure. Black Kite Monitor continuously tracks vendor portfolios, while FocusTags connect breaches, active exploits, CVEs, and dark-web exposures to vendors. The Ransomware Susceptibility Index provides a predictive, vendor-specific signal. Black Kite Assess parses policies and compliance documents, mapping evidence to more than 25 global frameworks or a custom framework; its shared workspace supports gap sharing, remediation requests, and follow-up with vendors. The platform grounds findings in open, auditable standards, and Open FAIR-based analysis translates cyber posture into dollar-denominated exposure. It supports hybrid assessments, questionnaire libraries, framework mapping, evidence collection, and workflow automation. Official integrations include ServiceNow, Aravo, OneTrust, Splunk, Jira, Power BI, Slack, Zapier, Microsoft Teams, and others. Pricing is on request.

Drata helps companies manage compliance, internal and third-party risk, and customer assurance. It automates control monitoring, evidence collection, and framework mapping. Its Trust Center offers customers a secure self-service portal to review a company’s security posture and request document access. Vendor risk features include inventory synchronization, questionnaire automation, risk tiering, agentic risk scoring, and automated assessment reports. Drata says it integrates with hundreds of tools across a technology stack. Its Open API follows REST standards and allows granular read and write permissions for API keys. Framework support includes SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, CCPA, and multiple NIST frameworks. Pricing is available on request, and there is no free plan. Approved customers may receive trial services until the communicated trial ends, a purchased subscription begins, or Drata terminates the trial. Support is provided by chat and ticket Monday through Friday, 24 hours per day, excluding specified holidays, at no additional charge. Trust Center Essential and Pro are not currently supported on mobile device screens.