CyberKnight Partners with Horizon3.ai to Deliver Advanced Offensive Security Solutions in MENA

CyberKnight,  a leading value-added distributor, has signed a strategic partnership with Horizon3.ai, a top provider of offensive security solutions. The announcement was made on the first day of Black Hat, with representatives from both companies present, including Horizon3.ai’s Matt Percival, Regional Director for EMEA, and Tamer Odeh, Regional Sales Director, alongside CyberKnight’s CEO and Founder Avinash Advani, and Chief Strategy Officer Wael Jaber.

The partnership comes as demand for automated penetration testing and adversarial exposure validation continues to rise. Organizations are facing limited red-team capacity, expanding attack surfaces, and a need for continuous validation of security controls. The global cybersecurity market is increasingly shifting from periodic, manual assessments to scalable, automated models. Horizon3.ai has executed more than 180,000 autonomous penetration tests and was recently recognized as a Sample Vendor in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Security Operations under the Adversarial Exposure Validation category.

Horizon3.ai’s solutions allow security teams to operate from an attacker’s perspective by automatically chaining misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and credential weaknesses into simulated attack paths across internal, external, cloud, and hybrid environments. This approach exposes exploitable weaknesses and verifies that remediation efforts are effective in practice, addressing the challenge of scaling manual penetration testing to keep pace with rapid digital transformation.

The partnership is particularly significant for the MENA region, where rapid adoption of cloud services, AI initiatives, and large-scale modernization are driving the need for continuous, automated security validation. Many organizations, especially in banking, government, and energy, currently lack real-time visibility into their true exposure. By partnering with Horizon3.ai, CyberKnight aims to provide offensive security solutions to enterprises and channel partners across the region, helping security teams mature toward continuous threat exposure management. CyberKnight’s regional presence and focus on best-in-class vendors will support integration of attacker-centric validation into existing architectures and regulatory frameworks.

The collaboration is expected to help organizations move from compliance-driven testing to continuous, evidence-based security outcomes. It empowers enterprises and government entities to think like attackers, validate their controls continuously, and prioritize remediation based on actual risk, ultimately strengthening cybersecurity resilience across the Middle East.