Case Study: Ellie Mae achieves streamlined, trusted third-party cyber risk monitoring with Black Kite

Ellie Mae eliminates noise, with findings they can “share and trust”

Ellie Mae, a SaaS provider that automates residential mortgage origination and compliance, struggled with an earlier cyber rating tool that was noisy, opaque about data sources, and unable to export or filter findings—creating heavy manual work for their vendor risk team. In 2019 they were introduced to Black Kite and evaluated its cloud-based cyber risk/monitoring solution as a potential replacement.

Black Kite’s cyber risk monitoring platform was adopted to provide continuous, standards-based assessments that the InfoSec and third‑party risk teams could both use. The Black Kite implementation delivered accurate, easily exportable findings, reduced manual effort and saved time in third‑party risk management, enabled straightforward sharing with vendors, and earned Black Kite a preferred‑vendor status with Ellie Mae.

Ellie Mae

Christy Smith

Senior Vendor Risk Manager