CyberKnight just locked down a partnership with Horizon3.ai to push automated penetration testing across the Middle East and North Africa. The deal got announced at Black Hat with Matt Percival and Tamer Odeh from Horizon3.ai meeting up with CyberKnight's CEO Avinash Advani and Chief Strategy Officer Wael Jaber. Horizon3.ai has run over 180,000 autonomous pen tests, and Gartner recently name-dropped them in the security ops hype cycle under adversarial exposure validation.
The platform automatically chains misconfigs, vulnerabilities, and credential gaps into simulated attack paths across internal, external, cloud, and hybrid setups. That lets security teams see what attackers would actually exploit instead of just ticking compliance boxes. The MENA region is dealing with massive cloud adoption and modernization, especially in banking, government, and energy, so continuous automated validation is becoming way more critical than periodic manual assessments.
The platform automatically chains misconfigs, vulnerabilities, and credential gaps into simulated attack paths across internal, external, cloud, and hybrid setups. That lets security teams see what attackers would actually exploit instead of just ticking compliance boxes. The MENA region is dealing with massive cloud adoption and modernization, especially in banking, government, and energy, so continuous automated validation is becoming way more critical than periodic manual assessments.
