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Supply Chain and Vendor Risk

Your suppliers could be the way in.

The CyberGrape Platform integrates Black Kite to monitor every vendor in your ecosystem in real time. Risk scores, ransomware susceptibility, financial impact: surfaced in your platform dashboard without asking your suppliers to do anything.

Most breaches start with a supplier, not a direct attack.

Supply chain attacks have become the preferred route for sophisticated threat actors. Your suppliers have legitimate access to your systems, your data, and sometimes your clients. If they are compromised, you can be too, and often without any action on your part.

The problem for SMBs is that traditional vendor risk management is expensive and manual. Annual questionnaires that suppliers fill in with minimal scrutiny, reviewed by someone who has limited context to assess the answers. It is security theatre, and everyone knows it.

Black Kite eliminates the questionnaire. It monitors your suppliers continuously using open-source intelligence and threat feeds: no co-operation required. You get a real-time risk picture that updates the moment something changes.

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Real-time risk scores for every vendor in your ecosystem: no questionnaires required

app.cybergrape.io/supply-chain/vendor-risk
Portfolio Rating
B+
Vendors Monitored
24
High Risk
3
Critical Findings
8
Critical: Exposed admin portal detected on NexGen Networks, RSI 67%, action required within 48 hrs
Vendor
Category
Rating
RSI
Risk Level
Change
Acme Cloud Services
Cloud InfrastructureA12%Low+2
GlobalTech Solutions
Software DevB+28%Low-1
SecureData Corp
Data ProcessingB41%Medium-5
NexGen Networks
NetworkingC+67%High-8
Velocity Hosting
Managed HostingB-38%Medium+1
ProLink IT Services
IT MSPA-9%Low-

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Black Kite is the leading third-party cyber risk intelligence platform. CyberGrape is one of the first firms in Australia and New Zealand to make it accessible to SMBs.

Real-time vendor risk ratings

Continuous monitoring of every supplier in your ecosystem via Black Kite. Risk scores on a 0–900 scale, updated as new intelligence is gathered. No agents, no questionnaires: open-source intelligence and threat feeds do the work.

Ransomware Susceptibility Index

Black Kite's proprietary RSI tells you how likely a vendor is to suffer a ransomware attack based on their current security posture. Know which suppliers are high-risk before they become your problem.

Financial impact in dollar terms

Vendor risk quantified in dollars using the FAIR methodology. The number that gets a board's attention: not a RAG rating, but an estimated financial exposure if this supplier is compromised.

Breach and change alerts

Instant notification when any monitored vendor's posture changes: a detected breach, leaked credentials, a critical vulnerability. You know before the vendor tells you, and often before they know themselves.

Vendor scorecards and remediation guidance

Board-ready supplier risk reports with plain-language findings and remediation steps that can be shared directly with your vendors. Turn supply chain risk into actionable supplier conversations.

Compliance mapping across frameworks

Every vendor assessed against ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI DSS, SMB1001 and other frameworks. Know which suppliers satisfy your compliance obligations and which create gaps you need to address.

SMB1001 Diamond

Required for Diamond. Valuable well before that.

A digital trust programme is a mandatory SMB1001 Diamond control (4.9.0.1). But the business case exists at every tier: enterprise clients, cyber insurers and government procurement are all asking for evidence of supplier risk management. Having it gives you a commercial advantage over competitors who don't.

Satisfies SMB1001 Diamond control 4.9.0.1
Supports cyber insurance underwriting documentation
Answers procurement due diligence questions proactively
Regulatory alignment for DORA, NIS2 and SEC frameworks
See SMB1001 Diamond certification →

Know your risk before it knows you.

Get started and see your vendor risk picture within your first session.