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Master CSA’s Security, Trust, Assurance, and Risk program—download the STAR Prep Kit for essential tools to enhance your assurance!

STAR-Enabled Solution:

Black Kite

Founded in 2013 by the Cloud Security Alliance, the Security Trust Assurance and Risk (STAR) registry encompasses key principles of transparency, rigorous auditing, and cloud security and privacy best practices.

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Black Kite

Black Kite provides the only standards-based cyber risk assessment that continuously analyzes your supply chain posture from three critical dimensions: Technical, financial, and compliance. Built on the latest Cloud technology, we follow commonly used frameworks to provide an easy-to-understand cyber risk rating, correlated with financial risk using Open FAIR™ and AI-powered compliance mapping.

Organizations who have the CSA Trusted Cloud Provider seal demonstrate a commitment to organizational security. They are a CSA Corporate Member volunteer regularly for CSA, and have at least one staff member who has earned their CCSK.
Information about Black Kite
Listed Since: 09/10/2021
Last Updated: 11/19/2024

STAR Level 1

Self-Assessment & Partner-Provided

Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire v4.0.2

CAIQ 4.0.2 Self-assessment
Offers an industry-accepted way to document what security controls exist in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services. It provides a set of Yes/No questions a cloud consumer and cloud auditor may wish to ask of a cloud provider to ascertain their compliance to the CSA Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM).