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.
