The results of our annual Third Party Breach Report are in! We scoured OSINT and exclusive sources to track and analyze nearly every third-party breach from 2023. Here are the highlights: 🛑 Unauthorized network access remains the leading cause of third-party breaches, accounting for 53% of incidents. 👾 Ransomware group CL0P wreaked havoc by exploiting vulnerabilities in MOVEit and GoAnywhere. 💪 Companies are prioritizing transparency and promptness, decreasing the average time to report incidents from 108 to 76 days. Read more in our 2024 Third Party Breach Report: https://lnkd.in/eKj2-RPs
Black Kite
IT Services and IT Consulting
Boston, Massachusetts 11,250 followers
The Power of Visibility | Third Party Cyber Risk Intelligence
About us
One in four organizations suffered from a cyber attack in the last year, resulting in production, reputation and financial losses. The real problem is adversaries attack companies via third parties, island-hopping their way into target organizations. At Black Kite, we're redefining vendor risk management with the world’s first global third-party cyber risk monitoring platform, built from a hacker's perspective. With 500+ 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. While other security ratings service (SRS) providers try to narrow the scope, Black Kite provides the only standards-based cyber risk assessments that analyze your supply chain's cybersecurity posture from three critical dimensions: technical, financial, and compliance.
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- IT Services and IT Consulting
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- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Boston, Massachusetts
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- Privately Held
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- 2016
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- Vulnerability Management, Targeted Cyber Threat Intelligence, Continuous Perimeter Monitoring, CyberSecurity, Cyber Risk Management, Cyber Insurance, Third Party Risk Management, Third Party Cyber Risk, Continuous Monitoring, Vendor Management, Supply Chain Risk Management, Due Diligence, and Reputational Risk
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Updates
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This week's Focus Friday is now live! Check it out now to learn about the latest vulnerabilities impacting today's TPRM landscape. https://lnkd.in/guePBTZ3
Focus Friday: TPRM Insights On Cleo File Transfer, BeyondTrust PRA and RS, and Ivanti Cloud Services Application Vulnerabilities
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Jeffrey Wheatman, congratulations on your outstanding achievement!
Today we are excited to introduce you to our 2024 Cyversity Ally of the Year, Jeffrey Wheatman! Since joining the organization in 2022, Jeffrey has been an impactful member of our community. He first joined Cyversity because he was looking for an opportunity to give back to the cybersecurity community. He has served as a mentor in every cohort of our Mentorship Program since joining, has volunteered his time as a speaker within the Mentorship Program, and has engaged with Cyversity at various industry events - including the 2023 Cyversity Conference, where he gave a fantastic presentation on IT Risk! Outside of Cyversity, Jeffrey hosts Risk and Reels: A Cybersecurity Podcast, which he uses to highlight the stories and perspectives of cybersecurity professionals from a diverse array of backgrounds. When asked what allyship meant to him, Jeffrey explained that he sees it as a three-fold effort to: 1. Lead by example; 2. Make yourself available when someone needs help; and 3. Speak up when you see a problem. As for the advice that he wants to offer to others looking to be strong allies in this industry? “Don't assume you understand the problem if you haven't lived the problem; listen more than you talk; [and] stop being offended on other people's behalf,” he said. “If someone tells you that you acted in a way deemed not aligned with optimal behavior ... don't take it personally and don’t get defensive; [and] if you see/hear something, say something.” Jeffrey further went on to say that he was deeply grateful to have received this award. “We all see ourselves in certain ways, and often there is a disconnect between what we see and what others see in us. I don’t think we ever get there all the way – this award tells me I’m at least moving in the right direction,” he stated. “In short I am honored in a way that words can’t express.” Congratulations to Jeffrey for this remarkable achievement!
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Black Kite consistently delivers fast, actionable intelligence, empowering our customers to respond swiftly to emerging threats and cyberattacks. Here’s what one customer shared about our intelligence during the Cleo File Transfer ransomware attack. Read our detailed and continuously updated post about the Cl0p ransomware attack on Cleo to stay informed and protect your business. https://lnkd.in/eC4Akpuq
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Cl0p is back, and this time they’ve set their sights on Cleo—a widely used tool for supply chain integration. By exploiting critical vulnerabilities, Cl0p is once again demonstrating how systemic third-party risks can disrupt entire ecosystems. Our latest blog explores: How Cl0p's tactics mirror past MOVEit, GoAnywhere, and Accelion Why Cleo's role in supply chains amplifies the impact Immediate steps organizations need to take to protect their operations Read the full blog to understand the threat and how to respond effectively. https://lnkd.in/emCUUFvj
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Here we go again... The holiday gift nobody asked for... The Cl0P ransomware group has just announced they will begin publishing victims due to attacks exploiting CLEO vulnerabilities. Last week, we highlighted how CLEO's vulnerabilities mirror the infamous MOVEit attacks of 2023. This is Cl0P's MO: they don’t operate year-round. Instead, they execute mass exploitation of vulnerabilities in Managed File Transfer (MFT) products, attacking hundreds of companies in a single campaign. We saw it with GoAnywhere. We saw it with MOVEit. And now, it’s CLEO. Stay vigilant, patch immediately, and assess exposure to CLEO vulnerabilities. Link to our article from last week: https://lnkd.in/dbyjUYWg
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With traditional risk assessments stretching to hundreds of questions, scaling your process can overwhelm even the most prepared teams. Our latest blog, “Vendor Risk Assessments: Why Scaling Feels Impossible (and What To Do About It)” outlines four practical steps to help you move away from manual, one-size-fits-all approaches and toward a strategy that’s streamlined, efficient, and focused on the vendors that matter most. https://lnkd.in/eNn3VVZp
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This week's Focus Friday is now live! Check it out now to learn about the latest vulnerabilities impacting today's TPRM landscape. https://lnkd.in/eQSDNhbM
Focus Friday: TPRM Insights on Qlik Sense, Cleo File Transfer, And SAP NetWeaver JAVA Vulnerabilities
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Our latest blog dives into the Blue Yonder attack, the emergence of the Termite Ransomware Group, and how cascading risks impact supply chains. Learn how intelligence and tools like Black Kite’s FocusTags™ help mitigate these threats so you can stay ahead of future events that could impact your cyber ecosystem. Check it out! https://lnkd.in/e7rPaGCQ
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A new episode of Risk and Reels: A Cybersecurity Podcast is now live! This week Jeffrey Wheatman and Sandra Saliba dig into the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), the implications of DORA for financial institutions, and the importance of managing third-party risk in the face of increasing cyber threats. Check it out now! https://lnkd.in/eXtt_3af