Why customers choose SAFE vs. Black Kite
Liminal positions SAFE as the best TPRM solution for organizations and practitioners alike, by focusing on automation, zero-trust principles, and AI-powered capabilities.
Trusted By Industry Leaders
Why SAFE Wins Vs Black Kite
SAFE is #1 in product capability, outperformed other leaders in practitioner satisfaction by 8%, and secured excellent scores in strategy, product, and market presence.
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Continuous Monitoring
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SAFE combines built-in questionnaires and GenAI analysis, feeding responses into a vendor’s risk profile. Black Kite’s ‘Assess’ focuses on AI-scanning but lacks a proven, interactive questionnaire portal
Remediation Enablement
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SAFE notifies vendors, assigns fixes, tracks SLAs, and verifies closure, so you actually reduce risk, not just report. Black Kite rates vendors but only packages information as a remediation workflows
Autonomous, Agentic AI
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SAFE is a 100% autonomous TPRM platform with Agentic AI, whereas Black Kite has a limited number of AI Agents that automate specific tasks
SAFE vs Black Kite Overview
SAFE is redefining cyber risk management with Agentic AI. We empower CISOs, cybersecurity, and TPRM leaders to continuously quantify, prioritize, and mitigate cyber risks across their entire attack surface - enabling digital growth and organizational resilience.
SAFE is the category leader in Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) and the first company to deliver 100% autonomous Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) and Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM).
Trusted by industry leaders including Google, Fidelity, T-Mobile, Chevron, and IHG, SAFE has achieved triple-digit revenue growth for three consecutive years and raised over $170 million to date.
SAFE is the category leader in Cyber Risk Quantification (CRQ) and the first company to deliver 100% autonomous Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) and Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM).
Trusted by industry leaders including Google, Fidelity, T-Mobile, Chevron, and IHG, SAFE has achieved triple-digit revenue growth for three consecutive years and raised over $170 million to date.
Black Kite
Black Kite focuses on cybersecurity risk scoring, providing a platform for real-time insights into third-party cybersecurity risks.
It evaluates vendor and supplier cybersecurity postures through standards-based assessments addressing technical vulnerabilities, compliance gaps, and financial impact. While Black Kite’s AI enhances the usability and presentation of its scoring model, its actual impact on improving TPRM risk-reduction outcomes remains questionable.
The platform’s per-tier, per-vendor pricing can create scaling challenges, often restricting monitoring to only the most critical suppliers. Additionally, they have a very limited questionnaire management capability.
It evaluates vendor and supplier cybersecurity postures through standards-based assessments addressing technical vulnerabilities, compliance gaps, and financial impact. While Black Kite’s AI enhances the usability and presentation of its scoring model, its actual impact on improving TPRM risk-reduction outcomes remains questionable.
The platform’s per-tier, per-vendor pricing can create scaling challenges, often restricting monitoring to only the most critical suppliers. Additionally, they have a very limited questionnaire management capability.
Liminal Link Index Report: Cybersecurity TPRM (2025)
Safe Security achieves a product capability coverage score of 95%, positioning as the highest scoring Leading Vendor in this category. Practitioners report high satisfaction with data privacy preservation (73%) and accuracy (70%), both exceeding the Leading Vendor medians.