Black Kite Achieves SOC 2 – Type 2 Compliance
Black Kite, the leader in third-party cyber risk intelligence, today announced Black Kite has successfully completed its Systems and Organizational Control (SOC) 2 Type 2 examination and achieved compliance with these standards.
BOSTON – July 23, 2024
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Black Kite, the leader in third-party cyber risk intelligence, today announced Black Kite has successfully completed its Systems and Organizational Control (SOC) 2 Type 2 examination and achieved compliance with these standards.
SOC 2 reports focus on a Service Organization’s internal controls designed to meet its service commitments and system requirements based on the Security, Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity and Privacy criteria established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The examination was conducted by Dansa D’Arata Soucia LLP (www.darata.com). In doing so Black Kite maintains its adherence to one of the most stringent, industry-accepted compliance frameworks for service organizations and provides additional assurance to its clients, through an independent auditor, that its business process, information technology and risk management controls are properly designed and operating as intended.
The official auditors’ report provides a thorough review of Black Kite internal controls, policies, and processes. It also reviews Black Kite processes relating to risk management and subservice (vendor) due diligence, as well as Black Kite entire IT infrastructure, software development life cycle, change management, logical security, network security, physical & environmental security, and computer operations.
“We are pleased that our SOC 2 report has shown that we have the appropriate controls in place to mitigate risks related to the services we provide to our customers,” said Bob Maley, CISO, Black Kite. “Compliance with these controls communicates to our customers and the world that we are committed to ensuring their data is secure while providing superior third-party cyber risk intelligence.”
Black Kite is disrupting third-party cyber risk management practices by providing security experts with the industry’s most accurate and comprehensive cyber intelligence, resulting in unparalleled visibility into the risk vendors introduce into their environments. The award-winning platform pushes the limits on predictive insights, delivering the highest quality intelligence to help organizations make better risk decisions and improve the health and safety of the entire planet’s cyber ecosystem.
About Black Kite
Black Kite is the only Cyber Security Ratings Service (SRS) to deliver the highest quality intelligence that helps leaders make better risk decisions for their organizations. Built from the hacker’s perspective, our standards-based third-party cyber risk monitoring platform is purpose-built to provide shareable and quantifiable analysis that prioritizes vendor risk, automates compliance framework mapping and transforms defensible risk decision-making.
With more than 1000 customers across the globe and counting, we’re committed to improving the health and safety of the entire planet’s cyber ecosystem with the industry’s most accurate and comprehensive cyber intelligence. Black Kite provides the only standards-based cyber risk assessments that fully analyze supply chain’s cybersecurity posture from three critical dimensions: technical, financial and compliance.
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Lane Kearney
Corporate Ink for Black Kite
About Dansa D’Arata Soucia LLP
Dansa D’Arata Soucia LLP (“DDS”) is a full service CPA firm based out of Buffalo, New York. Over the past decade, DDS has built a team of auditors dedicated to understanding the AICPA’s Trust Services Criteria and how properly applying best practices to comply with this set of criteria results in mitigation of risk as it relates to protecting sensitive data. DDS understands that a SOC 2 examination can be initially intimidating. As such, DDS has worked tirelessly on finding ways to streamline the examination process to be as minimally invasive as possible on company resources. This allows the management teams of their clients to stay focused on growing their businesses! To learn more about DDS and their SOC services, please contact Daniel Garigen, CPA at [email protected] and visit their website at www.darata.com.
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