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CyberKnight and Elastic Forge VAD Partnership in the Middle East

According to a recent survey conducted by Gartner, an overwhelming 79% of corporate strategists emphasized the significance of technologies like analytics, AI, and automation in achieving their data goals within the next two years. This highlights the increasing need for a robust platform that enables organizations to leverage these technologies effectively while ensuring data security, mitigating potential threats, and achieving operational stability across different environments.
To support the region’s IT decision-makers, CyberKnight has launched its Data Analytics Business Unit by becoming the value-added-distributor for Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch®, the development platform used by thousands of companies, to find the answers they need in real-time using all their data, at scale.
Elastic delivers complete, cloud-based, AI-powered solutions for enterprise security, observability and search built on the Elasticsearch platform. The Elasticsearch platform is powered by built-in vector search and transformer models, and takes advantage of AI and ML to find more relevant meaning and context in proprietary unstructured data, enabling customers to advance their AI initiatives today without a lot of additional resources.
“Elastic is the only platform that enables real-time search, logging, security, analytics, and visualization of data regardless of format while offering the next generation of capabilities for monitoring and analysis across virtually every vertical. We are thrilled about this strategic partnership with Elastic to provide regional customers with an unparalleled technology experience while maximizing their return on investment.”, commented Avinash Advani, Founder & CEO at CyberKnight.
“Partnering with CyberKnight helps us to accelerate our growth in the region and allows more enterprise and government customers to use Elastic’s AI-powered solutions to find the answers that matter from their data. With CyberKnight’s strong technical expertise and deep-rooted end-user and channel partner relationships, we can help channel partners turn data into actionable insights, collect data seamlessly, manage risk, ensure compliance, and minimize upkeep and maintenance for Middle East customers”, added Steve Furniss, area vice president of Emerging Markets at Elastic.
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Dynatrace Names DXC Global Partner of the Year

DXC Technology has announced it has received the Global Partner of the Year award at the Dynatrace Amplify Partner Sales Kickoff. This award recognizes DXC’s 15-year collaboration with Dynatrace, highlighting DXC’s technical expertise, strategic investment, and results for enterprise customers worldwide.
The Global Partner of the Year Award acknowledges organizations that show innovation and promote the adoption of Dynatrace solutions. DXC earned this recognition for its ability to use Dynatrace solutions to drive growth and success, consistently meeting and exceeding client expectations. DXC was also recognized for establishing a dedicated Dynatrace strategic business unit, which includes over 280 certified engineers and more than 1,500 trained professionals globally.
Howard Boville, President, DXC Consulting & Engineering Services Powered by AI, said, “This recognition underscores the power of our partnership and the trust our customers place in our joint solutions. In just the past 15 months, we’ve helped more than 200 organizations, including some of the most complex enterprises in the world—adopt Dynatrace. With the industry’s largest team of Dynatrace-certified engineers, a dedicated business unit, and automation that facilitates onboarding in minutes, we’re enabling clients to accelerate transformation, resolve issues faster, and realize the full value of AI-powered observability.”
DXC contributes significant scale and expertise to the Dynatrace ecosystem, with one of the largest investments in Dynatrace talent within the IT industry. DXC’s dedicated Global Dynatrace Strategic Business Group demonstrates its commitment to providing next-generation observability solutions. DXC is also the only IT services provider with a Center of Excellence focused on Logs Management on Grail, highlighting its leadership in applying AI to enterprise-scale applications.
Jay Snyder, SVP, Global Partners and Alliances, Dynatrace, said, “It’s my honor to congratulate DXC Technology on being named our 2025 Global Partner of the Year. This well-deserved award reflects DXC’s remarkable commitment to innovating and driving market growth, and we couldn’t be prouder to recognize their achievements. Our combined potential to deliver true business outcomes is only increasing, and we look forward to building on this success and delivering even greater impact in the year to come.”
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CyberKnight and ON2IT Bring Zero Trust as a Service to META

CyberKnight and ON2IT have announced a strategic partnership. The collaboration is aimed at helping enterprise and government organizations across the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) move away from perimeter-based defenses. Their unified Zero Trust framework lowers cyber-risk, bolsters compliance and reduces operational cost.
According to Gartner, the Zero Trust approach delivers the resilience to mitigate cyber risk, enables modern business capabilities and a hybrid workforce, and provides the flexibility to enable appropriate access methods, while removing implicit access based on location. By 2026, 10 percent of large enterprises will have a mature and measurable Zero Trust program in place, up from less than 1 percent today.
Meanwhile Forrester’s Principal Analyst, Chase Cunningham, said, “Zero Trust is no longer optional.” These analyst findings underline an urgent reality: in a fast-changing world defined by AI-driven threats and escalating geopolitical tensions, Zero Trust has become a business necessity, not a ‘nice-to-have’.
“Current security stacks weren’t built for today’s cyber war,” said Wael Jaber, Chief Strategy Officer at CyberKnight. “By adding ON2IT’s Zero Trust as a Service to our portfolio, we give META customers direct access to globally proven Zero Trust Readiness, Fast Track and Coaching services, empowering them to adopt Zero Trust with confidence, clarity and ease.”
ON2IT’s Managed Detection & Response (MDR) service runs on its AUXO security platform, which ingests log data from any IT, OT or cloud source -without the complexity of a traditional SIEM. Each event is analyzed both in real time and retrospectively against the AUXO Threat Intel Feed™. It’s then routed through EventFlow and, when necessary, escalated to ON2IT’s 24/7 SOC. The result is a prevention-first approach that blocks attacks before they escalate while cutting data-storage overhead and tool sprawl.
“CyberKnight and ON2IT are proud to join forces to offer globally leading Zero Trust consulting services across the Middle East and Africa,” said Marcel van Eemeren, CEO & Co-founder of ON2IT. “With a decade of Zero Trust leadership and a SOC-driven, prevention-first approach, ON2IT delivers modular, scalable services tailored to each organization’s unique needs. Through this partnership, META organizations gain the same Zero Trust strategies trusted by global leaders and mandated by governments, no SIEM required, no trade-offs made.”
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Qualys Partners with Teksalah, the First Middle Eastern MSP in its mROC Alliance

Qualys has announced the expansion of its invite-only managed Risk Operations Center (mROC) Partner Alliance with seven new global partners, including Teksalah from the Middle East. This marks a significant step forward in Qualys’ mission to build a robust Risk Operations Center (ROC) ecosystem—making business-aligned cyber risk management more accessible, actionable, and measurable for organizations worldwide.
Built on the Qualys Enterprise TruRisk™ Management Platform, the ROC framework consolidates risk signals across an organization’s digital footprint into a single pane of glass. It enables Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), cyber risk quantification, and risk remediation, empowering CISOs to translate cyber risk into business terms, ensure audit readiness, and build long-term resilience.
The mROC Partner Alliance equips partners to drive growth by delivering enhanced Qualys-powered ROC services that transform how enterprises measure, manage, and reduce cyber risk. The expanded roster of partners brings world-class expertise to help organizations overcome common cybersecurity challenges such as fragmented tools, disjointed risk response, and limited visibility—enabling a proactive approach to managing cyber risk at scale.
“When we introduced the concept of the Risk Operations Center, we knew it had the potential to redefine how organizations manage cyber risk,” said Sumedh Thakar, president and CEO of Qualys. “Today, with the launch of our inaugural global mROC partners, we’re delivering on that vision. This is a major milestone in building a thriving ROC ecosystem—one that helps businesses around the world take control of cyber risk with clarity, speed, and measurable impact.”
mROC Partners, through a comprehensive suite of risk service offerings, play a critical role in Qualys’ mission to make cyber risk management easier to adopt, more practical to implement, and more impactful for organizations globally. This innovative group of mROC partners has been thoroughly trained and enabled to operate a ROC powered by Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM), delivering comprehensive managed risk services. By aggregating and analyzing risk signals from both Qualys and third-party tools, they offer their clients a holistic, business-aligned view of their risk exposure.
“The Teksalah and Qualys partnership is built on a shared vision — to embed a holistic risk-based, proactive approach at the core of enterprise cybersecurity. Through our powerful platforms, intelligent tools, and proven services—covering real-time risk monitoring to effective remediation—we are enabling organizations to manage risk with precision and drive secure innovation. Together, we are transforming our client’s cybersecurity from a control function into a catalyst for business growth and resilience,” commented Murali Konasani, CEO, Teksalah.
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