Why customers choose Bitsight vs. Black Kite

In today’s competitive cybersecurity marketplace, there’s always a risk of misinformation amongst options and capabilities.

Forrester Research, Inc., known for its respected, independent research in technology and security, has named Bitsight a Leader in its Forrester Wave™ report for Cybersecurity Risk Ratings. Bitsight earned the highest possible scores across 18 key criteria, solidifying its position as a top choice for organizations seeking robust cyber risk management solutions.

 

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Bitsight vs. Black Kite: Capabilities

 

Bitsight

Black Kite

Cyber Risk Ratings Platform Leader

 Highest total score earned by Forrester Wave, Cyber Risk Ratings Platforms  

 Listed as a Contender

External Attack Surface Management Leader

 Placed top right as Leader on Frost Radar™ EASM report, recognized as top 3 in Innovation

 Not listed

Attack Surface Management Leader

 Recognized by KuppingerCole Leadership Compass, Attack Surface Management and Frost Radar, EASM

 Not listed. No 4th party capabilities

Correlation of insights and security rating to real-world outcomes

 Correlated to real-world risk, validated by independent studies from Marsh Mclennan, Moody’s, Gallagher Re and more

 No independent data that correlates scores to real-world incident likelihoods or outcomes

Transparent Return on Investment (ROI)

 297% ROI. See the calculator

 ROI data not available

Comprehensive data collection capabilities

 Bitsight data collection includes proprietary Internet scanner, the largest sinkhole, and other technologies. More than 4 billion-plus routable IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and 40 million entities scanned daily

 Scans 35 million companies, frequency unclear

Ability to identify and attribute assets across an expanded attack surface

 Comprehensive Exposure Management powered by Bitsight technologies like Groma and GIA, that can find new internet assets in less than 2 hours (Greynoise.io), plus a team of 95 technical researchers to review & add context to the data attribution

 Mapping includes non-quantitative measures, including social network, which are not beneficial for third-party risk analysis

Actionable threat intelligence from across the clear, deep and dark Web

 Real-time cyber threat intelligence 

 Does not offer

R&D, investment in innovation, and product roadmap

 64 patents to date and the largest R&D investment. View latest announcements

 No publicly known patent data

Analytics and insights on the impact of security programs

 Governance and analytics that include detailed industry peer and competitor benchmarking capabilities and root cause reporting

 Primarily focuses on third-party risk, no dedicated offer for governance use cases

Forecasting analytics and capabilities

 Robust forecasting tools based on historical data and trends to predict how resource allocation can impact security posture. Scenario modeling to simulate remediation strategies and potential impact to support informed decision-making

 No public resource to indicate this capability

Remediation plan development to prioritize efforts

 Comprehensive analytics displayed in dashboards within SPM app to help easily identify and prioritize findings to remediate within organizations and their vendor ecosystem. Allows companies to create detailed remediation plans targeting specific risk vectors

 Focuses on point in time compliance gap for remediation efforts

Customer onboarding and engagement

 Customized experience and plan to maximize program efficiency. Read about onboarding tailored to individual customer needs

 Limited customer support

Vendor network access

 Vendor network greater than 45,000 and grows 35% YoY. Trust Management Hub enables vendors to securely build a profile to send and receive critical documentation, attestations, and questionnaires

 No vendor network

User experience and investment

 Usability Team continuously conducts user testing with customers and reviews roadmap enhancements bi-annually. Scored the highest for Platform User Experience in The Forrester Wave

 Independent study shows that customers “cited issues with slow page loading and performance."

 

Bitsight vs. Black Kite: Customer Reviews

 

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Black Kite

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The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms, Q2 2024

"[Bitsight] boasts an unmatched commitment to innovation…”; Bitsight “leans heavily into ratings model validation and correlation studies to continuously test its ratings’ alignment with real-world incidents."

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With more than 3,100 customers and 64 patents, Bitsight is a global leader in cyber risk management, specializing in external attack surface managementthird-party risk monitoring, vulnerability detection and response, cybersecurity analytics, and financial risk quantification. Bitsight pioneered the security ratings industry in 2011, and today it’s data scanning capabilities now encompass:

  • 40 million-plus monitored organizations
  • 250 million-plus host names
  • 4 billion-plus routable IP addresses

Black Kite, founded in 2016, is a third-party cyber risk intelligence platform that monitors the cybersecurity posture of vendors and partners. Their solutions include technical cybersecurity ratings based on letter grades, financial impact assessments, compliance correlation, and ransomware susceptibility. Black Kite offers actionable intelligence and tracking of high-profile cyber events, but does not offer direct incident response or managed security services, focusing instead on risk assessments and continuous monitoring.

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The Bitsight Security Rating provides an objective, data-driven lens to view the health of an organization’s cyber security program.

Bitsight data is independently verified to correlate with an organization’s risk of a security incident or data breach. See reports by AIR Worldwide, IHS Markit, Marsh McLennan, and Moody’s Analytics, demonstrating this critical connection.

Per Moody's Analytics, Bitsight Analytics is also correlated to financial risk and firm value.

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Security leaders need solutions that help them identify and mitigate risks in their own organizations and broader third party supply chain, including vendors, suppliers, and business associates. Attackers continue to exploit known vulnerabilities and target critical third party suppliers to gain access to sensitive data or inflict operational harm. With the growing criticality of cybersecurity risk rating platforms in the global marketplace, trust and data accuracy matters.

Bitsight is committed to creating trustworthy, data-driven, and dynamic measurements of organizational cybersecurity performance derived from objective, verifiable information. In 2017, Bitsight helped create the "Principles for Fair and Accurate Security Ratings,” (PDF) a series of practices developed alongside some of the world’s largest and most risk-focused companies. These Security Ratings Principles affirm the critical role of security ratings in society and the important responsibility that Bitsight holds in creating these measurements.