Black Kite identifies vulnerabilities and assault patterns utilizing 400 safety controls and over 20 standards. These embody credential and patch administration, assault floor, DDOS resiliency, SSL/TLS power, IP/Area Repute, and DNS well being. We additionally leverage the Open FAIR™ mannequin to calculate the possible monetary impression of third-party knowledge breaches—and assign easy-to-understand letter grades with clear formulation developed by the MITRE Company.
Scaling and Securing Black Kite
I began Black Kite as a licensed moral hacker (CEH) and beforehand labored with the North Atlantic Treaty Group (NATO) Counter Cyber Terrorist Job Pressure to determine cybercriminal loopholes. Slowly I began to construct an superior administration crew after founding the corporate.
As we transitioned to a startup with a restricted funds, we shortly realized we couldn’t securely and quickly scale and not using a dependable expertise accomplice to assist us course of, analyze, and retailer huge quantities of delicate knowledge. That’s why we began working with Google Cloud and partnering with the Google for Startups Program. We participated within the Mach37 incubator and accelerator and obtained a $100okay credit score that’s legitimate for two years. Google Cloud offers us a extremely secure-by-design infrastructure that complies with main worldwide knowledge privateness legal guidelines and requirements. Black Kite shops and encrypts every thing on extremely safe Cloud Storage, leveraging a mixture of solid-state drives (SSDs) and onerous disk drives (HDDs) for warm, nearline, and coldline knowledge. We additionally handle and archive the 30 terabytes of logs Black Kite generates daily with Google Cloud’s operations suite.
To create danger evaluation rankings, we spin up Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Cloud Features, and Cloud Run. The platform scans registered domains utilizing pure language processing (NLP) and different machine studying (ML) strategies with refined fashions developed on TensorFlow. We additionally leverage extra Google Cloud merchandise to function Black Kite, together with App Engine, Cloud Scheduler, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Duties.
Working thousands and thousands of microservices on Google Cloud
In 2016, we began an thrilling journey to assist firms to work safely and securely with third-party distributors, companions, and suppliers. Because of Google Cloud, the Google for Startups Program, and the Mach37 incubator and accelerator, over 300 firms all over the world are happy Black Kite prospects. These firms repeatedly use our platform to evaluate third-party cyber dangers, price ransomware susceptibility, and guarantee compliance with worldwide knowledge and privateness legal guidelines.
Along with being the highest-rated buyer’s selection vendor, we proceed to work with the Google Cloud Success crew to additional optimize our 5,000 microservices that run concurrently throughout each risk-assessment scan. Google startup specialists are amazingly responsive, with deep technical information and problem-solving abilities that assist us scale as much as one million microservices a day!
We additionally wish to spotlight the Google Cloud analysis credit we use to affordably discover new options to handle, analyze, and validate the large quantities of data Black Kite generates. We now flawlessly run thousands and thousands of standards-based cyber danger assessments—and quickly correlate knowledge with main trade requirements resembling Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Expertise (NIST), Cost Card Business Knowledge Safety Customary (PCI-DSS), and Normal Knowledge Safety Regulation (GDPR).
With Black Kite, firms are taking management of third-party cyber danger evaluation on a scalable, automated, and clever platform constructed from a hacker’s perspective. We will’t wait to see what we accomplish subsequent as we proceed to increase the Black Kite crew and positively disrupt the safety trade to safeguard programs and data for companies (and their prospects) worldwide.
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