Case Study: Fractional CISO achieves next-day vendor risk visibility and same-day critical vulnerability detection with Black Kite

Fractional CISO - Customer Case Study

Fractional CISO provides Virtual CISO advisory services to midsize organizations, helping with SOC 2/ISO 27001 readiness, risk assessments and full cybersecurity programs. Their challenge was slow, manual vendor intake and limited visibility into clients’ supply chains—onboarding and vendor assessments could take weeks and left blindspots that increased risk. To solve this, Fractional CISO adopted Black Kite’s cyber risk intelligence platform to scan and monitor client vendors and flag issues that need immediate attention.

By using Black Kite, Fractional CISO automated vendor discovery and continuous monitoring, gaining a 360-degree view of supply chain risk and prioritized findings much faster. Black Kite cut ramp-up time from weeks (or a month) to next-day or same-day results, decreased time to find critical vulnerabilities from the first month to the first day, and exposed issues such as poor patching, email/DNS and IP vulnerabilities—allowing Fractional CISO to give clients actionable, evidence-backed recommendations quickly.

Fractional CISO

Rob Black

Founder