A LETTER GRADE CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT A BREACH WILL COST.
SecurityScorecard tells you a vendor is risky. Black Kite tells you what's actually driving that risk with ransomware likelihood, financial impact, and transparent data.
The Difference Between a Rating and Intelligence
Built for Where the Market Is Going, Not Where It's Been
SecurityScorecard helped define the letter-grade era. That era is over. As the 2025 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ confirms, cyber risk ratings are giving way to Third-Party Cyber Risk Management. Black Kite was built for this shift — with transparent, standards-based methodology aligned to MITRE, NIST, and CVSS, not a proprietary black box your team can't explain to the board.
#1 in AI. Not as a Feature. As the Foundation.
In the April 2026 Forrester Wave™ for Cybersecurity Risk Ratings Platforms, Black Kite scored a 5/5 in AI capabilities and customer AI adoption. SecurityScorecard scored a 1. Black Kite's AI agent executes complex TPCRM workflows — investigations, assessments, reporting — autonomously. AI Built In, Not Bolted On™ isn't a tagline. It's an architecture decision made in 2016.
Stop wondering which vendors could get hit.
The Ransomware Susceptibility Index® (RSI™) predicts the likelihood that a specific vendor will be hit by ransomware — based on their actual technical posture. SecurityScorecard has no equivalent. For practitioners managing hundreds of vendors, the difference between a reactive letter grade and a predictive risk signal is the difference between escalating to leadership after the breach or before it.
You should be able to explain every finding. Every time.
Black Kite's 3x validation approach cross-references two independent sources against its own scanning — with full visibility into category weights, data sources, and scoring logic. SecurityScorecard uses proprietary algorithms with limited visibility into how findings are calculated. When a vendor disputes a rating, you need evidence — not a black box. Full transparency isn't a premium feature. It's the baseline.