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Security Ratings
Security ratings are standardized, continuously updated measures of an organization's cybersecurity posture, derived from externally observable data. Black Kite differentiates its approach by building ratings exclusively on open standards — MITRE frameworks, Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), Common Weakness Scoring System (CWSS), and Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) — making outputs transparent and defensible rather than based on proprietary, black-box scoring methodologies.