Cyberknight, a value-added distributor, announced a strategic partnership with Horizon3.ai, a provider of offensive security solutions. The announcement was made on the first day of Black Hat, in the presence of Horizon3.ai’s Matt Percival, Regional Director for EMEA, and Tamer Odeh, Regional Sales Director, alongside CyberKnight’s Avinash Advani, CEO and Founder, and Wael Jaber, Chief Strategy Officer.

Demand for automated penetration testing and adversarial exposure validation continues to rise. Organizations face limited red-team capacity, broader attack surfaces, and the need for continuous security control validation. The global market is shifting from manual assessments to scalable, automated models. Horizon3.ai has successfully executed over 180,000 autonomous pentests and was recently recognized as a Sample Vendor in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Security Operations in the Adversarial Exposure Validation category.

Tamer Odeh, Middle East & Africa Regional Lead at Horizon3.ai, revealed that the company helps organizations move from reactive assessments to continuous security feedback loops. “This approach exposes exploitable weaknesses, validates fixes, and strengthens resilience over time,” he said.

Horizon3.ai enables security teams to operate with an attacker’s perspective. By automatically chaining misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and credential weaknesses into real attack paths, it verifies that remediation efforts work in practice. This approach helps organizations scale manual penetration testing to match the speed of digital transformation.

Across MENA, rapid cloud adoption, AI initiatives, and modernization are increasing the need for continuous security validation. Many organizations in banking, government, and energy still lack real-time visibility into their exposure. CyberKnight’s regional presence will help deliver offensive security solutions and integrate attacker-centric validation into existing architectures and regulatory frameworks.

Matt Percival, Regional Director for EMEA at Horizon3.ai, reported that partnering with CyberKnight enables autonomous pentesting and exposure validation for critical sectors. Wael Jaber, Chief Strategy Officer at CyberKnight, added that the partnership strengthens resilience for enterprises and government entities across the Middle East.

Key Highlights:

• Partnership brings Horizon3.ai’s automated pentesting to MENA enterprises.
• Focus on continuous security validation for cloud, AI, and digital programs.
• Targets banking, government, and energy sectors with real-time exposure management.

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