Vendor Risk Assessment

A vendor risk assessment is a structured evaluation of a third party's cybersecurity posture, compliance status, and operational practices to determine the level of risk the vendor introduces to the first party's organization. Vendor risk assessments may combine outside-in technical scanning, questionnaire-based evidence collection, and AI-powered document analysis. The depth and frequency of assessment is typically calibrated to the vendor's criticality tier. Black Kite's Cyber Assessment module accelerates vendor risk assessments by automating document parsing, control gap analysis, and framework mapping.