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title: "Black Kite Connector Guide"
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# Black Kite Connector Guide

Black Kite provides external cyber risk assessments that analyze the organization’s supply chain cybersecurity posture from three dimensions: technical, financial, and compliance. The **Balbix integration with Black Kite** ingests IT infrastructure domains, assets and associated vulnerabilities discovered by Black Kite.

Balbix leverages AI to aggregate, normalize, and deduplicate ingested data, along with information integrated from your existing IT and cybersecurity tools. This creates a unified view of your entire asset inventory, including vulnerabilities and their business and operational context. Balbix’s AI models then analyze this data to provide insights such as deployment gap analysis, risk-based vulnerability prioritization (with detailed ranking and scoring), and risk quantification. This process delivers a comprehensive assessment of risk, whether for a single asset, groups of assets, or your entire enterprise, enabling more informed and effective security decisions.

## Integration Summary

The table below provides information about the integration type, asset types, and data types that are fetched by the Balbix connector for Black Kite.

| **Integration Type** | **Fetch**: An inbound API integration used to retrieve IT infrastructure domains, assets, and associated vulnerability information. |
| --- | --- |
| **Types of Assets Fetched** | Host devices including servers, virtual machines, desktops, and laptops. |
| **Types of Data Fetched** | Asset names, location information, interface information (MAC address, IP address), vulnerabilities information, and all relevant timestamps such as first observed, last observed. |

## Prerequisites

**Generate credentials for the Balbix connector**

To configure the Balbix connector, first generate a **Black Kite client ID** and **client secret**. These credentials are required to complete the configuration process.

## Set up your Black Kite connector

After completing the prerequisites, follow these steps to configure your Balbix connector for Black Kite.

### Step 1: Select the connector

Start by selecting a connector using the steps outlined below:

1. Go to **Data Sources** from the left navigation bar.
2. In the Connectors table, click **+ Add Connector**.
3. Click **Select a Connector to Configure** to expand the window and view the list of available connectors.
4. Click the **+** icon on the **Black Kite** tile.
5. 

### Step 2: Configure the connector

Configure the connector using the steps outlined below.

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## **API reference documentation**

For more information about the Black Kite API, see the following references:

- [Black Kite API](https://app.blackkitetech.com/ApiDocs/v2/swagger/)