Bitsight vs. Black Kite:
choosing the right fit for your risk program

 
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External Attack Surface Management leadership (Frost Radar™ EASM report 2024) Bitsight placed top right as a Leader and was recognized as a top 3 Innovator. Black Kite was not cited.
Attack Surface Management leadership (KuppingerCole Leadership Compass 2025) Bitsight was named an Overall Leader. Black Kite was not cited.
Bitsight is named a Leader
(The Forrester Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms)		 Bitsight earned top scores across evaluated criteria. Provides externally benchmarked security ratings used by enterprises, insurers, and regulators.
Pricing See Black Kite website Bitsight pricing reflects the breadth of integrated capabilities, including predictive risk scoring validated against real-world outcomes, large-scale external telemetry, and embedded threat intelligence across clear, deep, and dark web sources. Bitsight pricing is customized and quote-based for each customer, tailored to their needs, size, and scope of monitoring.


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Frost Radar™: External Attack Surface Management, 2024

"Bitsight is a leading provider of EASM solutions supported by strong growth and innovation strategies. Its acquisition of Cybersixgill presents a significant opportunity to enhance growth potential and market leadership."

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Bitsight vs. Black Kite Overview

Bitsight

With more than 3,500 customers and 70 patents, Bitsight is a global leader in cyber risk intelligence & exposure management, specializing in external attack surface management, cyber threat intelligence, third-party risk monitoring, vulnerability detection and response, and cybersecurity analytics. Bitsight pioneered the security ratings industry in 2011, and today its data scanning capabilities now encompass:

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

Black Kite

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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Proven Data Correlation

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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Trust Matters

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.

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