Black Kite & Sayari unite cyber & supply chain risk

Black Kite has partnered with Sayari to combine cyber risk monitoring with corporate and supply chain intelligence.

The integration is designed to give customers a single view of third-party risk across suppliers, ownership networks and trade relationships. It brings Sayari's data on corporate ownership, trade activity and commercial links into Black Kite's platform, where users already monitor cyber exposure and threat intelligence.

Businesses are under growing pressure to assess risk across extended supply chains, particularly when data sits in separate systems and teams. The combined offering aims to reduce that fragmentation by linking information on an entity's connections with its cyber posture.

Sayari's dataset spans more than 250 jurisdictions and is used to map ownership structures, trade flows and other commercial relationships. Black Kite's cyber risk intelligence covers more than 40 million companies and is used by more than 3,000 customers.

The integration is intended to support tasks including due diligence, supply chain risk management, compliance, government and national security use cases, and merger or onboarding reviews. In practice, customers can examine beneficial ownership and upstream supplier dependencies while also assessing cyber vulnerabilities.

Broader view

Third-party risk has become a greater concern as supply chains have grown more global and opaque, and regulators have placed more emphasis on resilience, sanctions compliance and exposure to financial crime. Cybersecurity and compliance teams also often work from different datasets, making it harder to identify how ownership, trade relationships and technical weaknesses intersect.

Black Kite and Sayari aim to address that overlap by combining data that would usually be reviewed separately. This could help users identify hidden ownership structures, N-tier supplier exposure and links to geopolitical or financial crime risks.

Bob Maley, chief security officer at Black Kite, said the market still often treats connected risks as separate issues.

"Risk doesn't exist in silos-but most tools still do," Maley said.

He said the partnership is intended to give customers a more joined-up view.

"By combining Sayari's global network intelligence with Black Kite's continuous cyber risk insights, we're helping organizations move from fragmented signals to a connected, operational view of third-party risk," Maley said.

Compliance overlap

The agreement reflects a wider shift in risk management, as companies try to connect cyber, operational and compliance data rather than assess each area in isolation. Supply chain scrutiny has also intensified as businesses look beyond direct vendors to deeper supplier tiers that may introduce disruption, sanctions exposure or security weaknesses.

Sayari said the partnership would help customers make decisions using both corporate transparency data and cyber intelligence. That could be relevant for organisations conducting enhanced due diligence or trying to trace ownership and control through layered international structures.

Owen Denby, general counsel at Sayari, said companies now need a broader basis for assessing counterparties and suppliers.

"Understanding risk today requires more than a single lens," Denby said.

He said the integration brings together two strands of information that are often reviewed separately.

"This partnership brings together two critical dimensions of risk-corporate network transparency and cyber exposure-so organizations can make faster, more confident decisions in an increasingly complex global environment," Denby said.

The integration is also intended to reduce manual research by connecting data sources that are often siloed. That could help users prioritise investigations and assess third parties more quickly across their wider business network.