Macnica expands its cybersecurity business to the Middle East. Agreement to acquire “CyberKnight”, a rapidly growing company in the Middle East

Macnica (Headquarters: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, President: Kazumasa Hara, hereinafter Macnica), a total Services & Solutions provider in semiconductors, networks, cybersecurity, and AI/IoT, is a rapidly growing cybersecurity company in the Middle East. We are pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement to acquire CyberKnight Technologies FZ-LLC (Headquarters: United Arab Emirates, CEO: Avinash Chandru Advani, hereinafter referred to as CyberKnight) and will expand our cybersecurity business to the Middle East.

Macnica is a Value Added Distributor (VAD) that develops IT solutions based on the world's cutting-edge technology, concludes sales agency agreements, and adds unique technical services such as implementation/operation support and training for the Japanese market. We have been developing our business as a. We have built a network with a wide range of global suppliers, from major companies to startups, and handle one of the largest number of solutions in the industry, especially in the cybersecurity field. Additionally, in 2016, we made iSecurity, headquartered in Taiwan, and Netpoleon, headquartered in Singapore, into our group companies in 2017, strengthening our security business in East Asia and ASEAN.

CyberKnight, which Macnica has agreed to acquire, was founded in 2019 by CEO Avinash Chandru Advani and COO Vivek Kumar Gupta, and has rapidly grown into one of the largest cybersecurity VADs in the Middle East in just three years. Headquartered in Dubai, the company has more than 50 employees, covers the entire Middle East region, and operates in six countries (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt, and Jordan). With multiple global system integrators as sales partners, the company has built a customer base centered on the financial, telecommunications, energy, and government organizations.

Macnica is advancing its growth plans by forming a strategic relationship with CyberKnight and expanding its scope of operations into the Middle East, with an eye to eventually expanding into neighboring regions such as Turkey and Africa. Furthermore, by combining the advanced and unique technical services we provide to the Japanese market with CyberKnight's expertise in zero trust security, we will be able to provide even more advanced technical services to the Middle East market.

Both companies have successfully pioneered new cybersecurity technologies to market, with many overlapping product portfolios, and this strengthened strategic partnership is expected to evolve their respective portfolios and strengthen the overall vendor relationship. will be strengthened. Through these synergies, Macnica, together with CyberKnight, aims to expand its security business as a representative VAD in Japan, Asia, and the Middle East.

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