BOSTON – November 02, 2026 -- Black Kite says its new CrowdStrike integration cuts third-party incident response times by 5x by moving vendor risk intelligence natively into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM.
The integration correlates external vendor risk signals with internal telemetry on the platform security operations centers (SOCs) already use. Black Kite says SOC teams handle tens of thousands of inbound signals daily but cannot detect third-party ransomware risk in real time or act on vendor incidents within existing workflows.
Black Kite scores and ratings land inside the SIEM
Analysts get Black Kite's Ransomware Susceptibility Index (RSI) scores, FocusTags and aggregated vendor cyber ratings across technical, financial and compliance dimensions. Joint customers also see data breach indicators and FAIR-based financial risk in a single view of aggregate third-party exposure.
Vulnerability handling runs through Charlotte Agentic SOAR playbooks
Black Kite escalates third-party vulnerabilities into Falcon Next-Gen SIEM based on criticality, confidence and EPSS scoring. Charlotte Agentic SOAR playbooks then enrich and investigate each finding. Remediation requests go to vendors through Black Kite's The Bridge. Ticket status and metrics flow back to the SIEM dashboard. Those metrics include vendor registration rates, FocusTag resolution time and average days to close critical findings.
CrowdStrike cites 150x search speed and 80% lower cost
The release states that Falcon Next-Gen SIEM delivers up to 150x faster search performance than legacy SIEMs. It also claims an 80% lower total cost of ownership over three years. Black Kite pitches the integration as consolidating third-party risk monitoring, vulnerability management and remediation reporting in one pane of glass.
Chuck Schauber, Chief Product Officer at Black Kite, said third-party risk can now be handled like any other threat: "fast, automated, and at scale."
The integration is available now in the CrowdStrike Marketplace.