Automating Third-Party Cyber Risk Management with Black Kite & Torq

We’re excited to announce our integration and technology partnership with Torq to bring third-party cyber risk intelligence directly into automated security workflows.  

Automation across core third-party risk processes is still a major gap security teams face - from vendor onboarding and reporting to detection and response workflows. Without automation, processes remain fragmented, response is delayed, and cyber risk management is difficult to scale. 

To close this gap, Black Kite and Torq have partnered to enable security teams to implement third-party risk that scales - moving beyond manual triage to automated orchestration. 

Why Black Kite + Torq

Black Kite is a leading third-party cyber risk management platform, known for deep, trusted risk intelligence that reduces exposure across the vendor ecosystem and limits the downstream impact of third-party threats.

Torq is an AI SOC platform that uses adaptive agentic reasoning and automation to accelerate the identification, prioritization, and remediation of critical threats, reducing MTTI and MTTR while increasing team productivity.

Together, Black Kite and Torq give security and risk teams a unified, automated approach to TPCRM. Organizations gain always-on visibility into their vendor ecosystem through Black Kite’s continuous monitoring and cyber risk intelligence, which feed directly into Torq workflows for faster action.

How it works in practice

Once integrated, Black Kite’s webhook alerts, cyber ratings, and Ransomware Susceptibility Index^™ (RSI^™) data feeds are seamlessly integrated into Torq’s orchestration engine. Security and risk teams can immediately begin automating third-party incident response, vendor risk reporting, and ransomware risk monitoring - without writing any code.

Black Kite intelligence automatically triggers Torq workflows to automatically classify risk signals, create cases, and pull in relevant context for SOC investigation.

Key features

→ Real-time Black Kite webhook alerts - including FocusTag^® events, RSI^TM thresholds, and data breach signals - automatically trigger Torq response workflows.  

→ Pre-built workflow templates for third-party incident response, cyber rating reporting, and ransomware risk reporting, available instantly in the Torq library.  

→ Multi-dimensional cyber ratings across 20 risk categories streamed into automated reporting workflows on a daily or weekly schedule.  

→ Automated vendor population analysis surfaces top ransomware risk vendors with detailed context - providing months of advance notice before a cyber event occurs

Key automation use cases

Accelerated Third-Party Incident Response:

Eliminate the lag between detecting third-party risk and taking action. Black Kite webhook alerts arm SOC teams with months of advance notice, triggering Torq playbooks the moment ransomware susceptibility rises, a critical vulnerability emerges, or a high-profile FocusTag^® event is applied.

Automated Vendor Risk Reporting:

Replace manual, time-consuming vendor risk reviews with automated, scheduled reporting. The integration continuously aggregates Black Kite's multi-dimensional cyber ratings across your entire supply chain, surfacing trends and risk signals before they escalate.

Proactive Ransomware Risk Monitoring:

Move from reactive to proactive. Weekly automated analysis of your vendor population using Black Kite's RSI™ identifies which vendors are trending in the wrong direction, and why, giving teams the context to act proactively.

Scalable Operations Without Added Headcount:

Torq's AI-native orchestration handles Tier-1 triage and enrichment autonomously. Combined with Black Kite's always-on risk intelligence, security and risk teams can scale their third-party cyber risk management program without scaling their team.

How to get started 

The Black Kite and Torq integration brings automated, intelligence-driven third-party cyber risk management directly into existing security workflows.

Setup takes just minutes. Simply connect Black Kite to your Torq tenant to gain instant access to pre-built workflow templates available in the Torq library.

To learn more, check out our joint solution brief or reach out to our team.