Dubai, UAE — According to Gartner, “forty-eight percent of board directors rank cyber risk as a top enterprise risk”. Cyber risk incidents can have significant operational, financial, reputational, and strategic consequences.

To aid regional organizations with understanding their overall security posture, CyberKnight has become the Middle East VAD for SecurityScorecard – the global leader in cybersecurity risk ratings, response, and resilience. The company provides a comprehensive platform to proactively build a more secure ecosystem for organizations and their vendors, mitigate cyber risks, eliminate vulnerabilities, and meet compliance standards, regardless of the industry.

The Forrester New Wave™: Cybersecurity Risk Rating Platforms, Q1 2021 report has recognized SecurityScorecard as a leader in cybersecurity risk ratings. SecurityScorecard is the only platform that allows customers to push their data to, and ingest data from, other third-party solutions. SecurityScorecard’s volume of workflow automations and integrations across key categories such as IT service management (ITSM), EDR, SIEM), third-party risk management (TPRM), and more ensures customers can access rich threat intelligence to enhance their existing security and compliance workflows.

“Organizations today are struggling to understand their own security risk posture, including risks associated with their supply chain. This knowledge gap opens them to security vulnerabilities, and puts them at risk for data breaches, lost business, and the ensuing damage to their reputations. We are very excited about this partnership with SecurityScorecard so that we can help regional enterprise and government customers articulate risk and ROI to defend against costly cyberattacks.”, commented Vivek Gupta, Co-Founder and COO at CyberKnight.

“SecurityScorecard evaluates cybersecurity risk using data-driven, objective, and continuously evolving metrics that provide visibility into any organization’s information security control weaknesses, as well as potential vulnerabilities throughout the supply chain ecosystem. We are thrilled to partner with CyberKnight, a leading cybersecurity VAD in the Middle East, to increase our footprint in the region while delivering the benefits of cyber risk ratings to CyberKnight’s channel so that they can assess and continuously monitor the cybersecurity posture of their customers.”, said Jan Bau, Vice President, EMEA at SecurityScorecard.

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About CyberKnight:

CyberKnight Technologies is a cybersecurity focused value-added-distributor (VAD) covering the Middle East with on-the-ground presence in all key regional markets. Our ZTX (Zero Trust Security) methodology, based on the Forrester framework, incorporates emerging and market-leading cybersecurity solutions that protect the entire attack surface, by leveraging AI, threat intelligence and collective defense. CyberKnight helps security and risk teams at enterprise and government customers simplify breach detection, prevention, and incident response, while addressing regulatory compliance. CyberKnight's Art of Cybersecurity Distribution methodology enables strategic partners to achieve greater market penetration, return-on-investment, and time-to-value.

About SecurityScorecard:

Funded by world-class investors including Evolution Equity Partners, Silver Lake Waterman, Sequoia Capital, GV, Riverwood Capital, and others, SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings with more than 12 million companies continuously rated. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard's patented rating technology is used by over 30,000 organizations for enterprise risk management, third-party risk management, board reporting, due diligence, cyber insurance underwriting, and regulatory oversight. SecurityScorecard is the first cybersecurity ratings company to offer digital forensics and incident response services, providing a 360-degree approach to security prevention and response for its worldwide customer and partner base. SecurityScorecard continues to make the world a safer place by transforming the way companies understand, improve and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees and vendors. Every organization has the universal right to their trusted and transparent Instant SecurityScorecard rating. For more information, visit securityscorecard.com or connect with us on LinkedIn.