Black Kite announces completion of new integration with CrowdStrike Falcon Next - Gen SIEM

This integration will natively incorporate the real-time network risk intelligence of Black Kite into the Falcon platform, enabling security teams to identify risks and automate responses at machine speed.

Boston, November 2, 2026 / PRNewswire / -- Third-party network risk management company Black Kite today announced a new integration with CrowdStrike that will directly import real-time third-party supplier risk intelligence into CrowdStrike Falcon ® Next - Gen SIEM. Black Kite stated that this new integration combines first-party and third-party data, native threat intelligence, artificial intelligence, and workflow automation to drive the transformation of SOC and provide security operations teams with the visibility, speed, and control needed to prevent third-party vulnerabilities before they occur.

Black Kite indicates that today's security operation centers face a critical blind spot: the risks brought to organizations by third-party suppliers and vendors. Although the SOC team manages tens of thousands of inbound signals every day, they lack the visibility to detect third-party ransomware risks in real time, as well as tools to handle third-party incidents and vulnerabilities within existing workflows. As a result, there are delays in incident response, repair processes rely on manual intervention, and supply chain risks remain unresolved until it is too late.

It is stated in the text that Falcon Next - Gen SIEM offer more capabilities than the traditional SIEM and the products positioned as alternatives to SIEM. The search performance can be up to 150 times faster, and the total cost of ownership over three years is 80% lower. By natively integrating third-party network risk intelligence from Black Kite into Falcon Next - Gen SIEM, both parties' common customers can now bridge this gap, associating external supplier risk signals with internal telemetry data within the same platform that is already in use by SOC.

• Leveraging the detection capabilities driven by AI and the rich contextual insights from Black Kite to identify and investigate hidden threats, including real-time Ransomware Susceptibility Index ® ( RSI ™) ratings, FocusTags ®, as well as comprehensive supplier network ratings that cover technical, financial, and compliance dimensions;
• By streamlining data access via Black Kite, automating third-party vulnerability investigation scripts with SOAR, and communicating with suppliers through The Bridge ™, the deployment and response times can be accelerated; the company claims that this can reduce the response time for third-party incidents by a factor of five.
• Unify SOC data and workflows to achieve better security results at a lower total cost, integrating third-party risk monitoring, vulnerability management, and repair reports within a single interface between Falcon Next and Gen SIEM.

This integration provides the security operations team with a fully automated third-party vulnerability management process: Black Kite will escalate and push third-party vulnerabilities to Falcon Next - Gen SIEM based on severity, confidence level, and EPSS scoring; subsequently, Charlotte Agentic SOAR scripts will supplement information and conduct investigations for each discovery. Fix requests are sent directly to suppliers through The Bridge ™, while ticket status and operational metrics—including supplier registration rates, FocusTag ® resolution times, and the average number of days to close critical findings—are fed back to the SIEM dashboard for continuous reporting and return on investment measurement.

Black Kite indicates that the common customers of both parties will benefit from a single, centralized view to monitor cross-network security trends, ransomware vulnerability (RSI ™), data leakage indicators (DBI), as well as comprehensive third-party risks based on FAIR. This will enable security leaders to demonstrate the quantifiable impact of their third-party risk initiatives to stakeholders.

Black Kite Chief Product Officer Chuck Schauber stated: "Third-party vulnerabilities account for a considerable proportion of the incidents that our customers have to deal with, but most SOC workflows do not have mechanisms to identify them before the risk evolves into an active incident. This integration will Black Kite directly bring open-standard network risk intelligence—RSI ™ ratings, FocusTags ®, and comprehensive supplier ratings—into the CrowdStrike environment that analysts are already using. As a result, security operations teams can investigate, prioritize, and fix third-party risk exposures just like they would any other threat: quickly, automatically, and on a scalable basis."

Black Kite integration has now been launched on CrowdStrike Marketplace. This platform is described as a one-stop solution for the third-party security product ecosystem. The company states that for more information regarding the collaboration between Black Kite and CrowdStrike, visitors can visit the relevant pages.

About Black Kite

Black Kite is a AI native third-party network risk management platform built for the connected world. The company claims that by extracting billions of external risk signals from millions of monitored organizations, Black Kite provides credible intelligence to support connected defense networks, helping organizations to identify risks earlier, take action more quickly, and move from isolated defenses to collective resilience. Black Kite states that with its platform, organizations can gain greater control, earlier warnings, and the confidence to collaborate securely with third parties in large-scale scenarios.

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