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By Sean Rayment
Two leading cybersecurity companies have joined forces to deploy a cutting-edge artificial intelligence tool to bring greater security to hundreds of international organisations. Beyon Cyber, a Beyon Group company and the fastest-growing cybersecurity company in the Middle East, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Haven Cyber Technologies, a global cybersecurity services provider and Microsoft Solutions Partner, through its UK-based subsidiary ITC Secure.
The move has allowed Beyon Cyber, a Bahrain-based company, and Haven Cyber to form a strategic partnership to deploy and integrate Orryx AI, Beyon Cyber’s agentic AI tool, into ITC Secure’s Security Operations Centres (SOCs). The partnership will provide world-class protection for Haven Cyber’s global base of enterprise clients.
Agentic AI is an autonomous artificial intelligence system that can independently make decisions and take actions to achieve goals with minimal human intervention, marking a major step change for cybersecurity. While traditional AI only responds to prompts, agentic AI is proactive, capable of multi-step reasoning, planning, using tools, and adapting to changing conditions to complete complex tasks. Agentic AI combines capabilities such as reasoning, planning, memory, and the ability to act with a degree of agency, making it useful for countering AI viruses developed by criminal gangs and hostile states intent on stealing data from governments and private clients.
Agentic AI is cheaper and faster than existing solutions and increases the efficiency of cyber specialists operating SOCs. Crucially, it is more accurate, producing fewer false positives and hallucinations. The development also reflects the internationalisation of leading Middle Eastern cybersecurity intellectual property, aligning with Bahrain’s goal of building a sovereign digital economy.
Developed by Beyon Cyber Labs, Orryx AI is the region’s first fully autonomous SOC platform. Unlike traditional tools that overwhelm analysts with alerts, Orryx AI autonomously investigates, prioritises, and responds to threats from cybercriminals and hostile actors. By combining intelligent noise reduction with adaptive learning, it delivers machine-speed triage, actionable insights, and continuous protection, helping SOC teams focus on high-impact decisions instead of manual firefighting.
Dr Khalid Al Khalifa, CEO of Beyon Cyber, said: “Deploying Orryx AI with a global leader like Haven brings our platform into a global MSSP environment where its value may reach hundreds of clients. By automating detection, triage, and response, we help international organisations stay ahead of algorithmic adversaries while showing that regional innovation can set new benchmarks that challenge even the most established global players in AI-driven security.”
Arno Robbertse, CEO of Haven Cyber, added: “Integrating Orryx AI into our SOC alongside Microsoft Copilot will strengthen our SOC’s AI capabilities. It will enable us to provide our customers with speed and early warning while reducing cost, raising the bar for detection, triage, and response across all industries we serve.”
