Tamkeen Security, a Saudi Arabia-based value-added cybersecurity distributor, announced on 18 October 2026 that it has signed a distribution partnership with AIBound.
Managed security service providers (MSSPs) and resellers across the Middle East can now bring AIBound to their customers.
Tamkeen Security is now distributing AIBound across the Middle East. AIBound is an Enterprise AI Security Platform for AI Usage Control (AIUC) at the endpoint.
Tamkeen works with MSSPs and resellers in the region so their customers can find every AI resource on company endpoints, grade each one for risk, and stop the high-risk ones in real time.
What Is the Tamkeen Security and AIBound Partnership?
Tamkeen Security is a Saudi Arabia-based value-added cybersecurity distributor, and it now distributes AIBound across the Middle East.
It works with MSSPs and resellers to develop customer opportunities and bring endpoint-level AI security into their enterprise offerings, so security teams in the region can say yes to AI and stay in control of it.
“Organisations across the Middle East are moving quickly with AI, and they need a way to do so with confidence,” said Naser Alshareef, Co-founder, Tamkeen Security.
“Through our MSSP and reseller partners, we can bring AIBound’s visibility, risk insight and controls to enterprises that want to accelerate AI adoption while protecting their data and meeting governance requirements.”
What Does AIBound Do for a Customer?
AIBound stops the high-risk AI on the endpoint in real time. It grades every AI agent, MCP server, skill, and prompt A to F on evidence, and shows the customer what each one can reach.
Enterprise AI no longer arrives through procurement. An employee installs an AI assistant. A developer wires a model into a production system. An agent is handed credentials and starts acting on its own.
None of it waits for a review board, which leaves security teams maintaining a list of approved AI tools while a different set of AI runs across the estate.
The published results show what that looks like in practice:
- European insurer: found 3,572 AI applications and 47 high-risk systems. Compliant with the EU AI Act 8 weeks before the deadline.
- Manufacturer: found an unvetted MCP server wired into Workday HR records, with 9 installs. F trust score, blocked, 0 records exfiltrated.
- Software company: found an agent with admin access across 14 repositories and 2 admin scopes. Secured.
Why Does AI Security Have to Work at the Endpoint?
Most security tools look at AI from the outside. Gateways read network traffic. XDR reads endpoint processes. AI-SPM tools read cloud and SaaS connectors. None of them list the agents, MCP servers and skills installed on the endpoint, which is where they run.
“A policy cannot govern an AI agent no one knows exists,” said Niall Browne, Co-founder and CEO of AIBound.
“Proxies and network tools have no visibility at the endpoint, and the endpoint is where the AI runs. AIBound reads the AI itself, at the endpoint, and acts inside the agent.
“Working with Tamkeen, channel partners across the Middle East can show a customer every AI resource running in their environment and stop the risky ones before they reach anything sensitive.”
The same evidence feeds the GRC program the customer already runs, mapped to the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001, rather than standing up a new governance system alongside it.
How Does a Partner Get Started?
A partner starts with a scoping call. If it fits, the customer runs AIBound for 14 days in their own environment against success criteria they write, with no proof of concept to negotiate. The customer sees every AI resource on their endpoints, graded A to F.
- Scope. Agree what the customer needs to see.
- Connect. IT pushes the AIBound Secure Client like any other app.
- Look. After install, the partner and the customer are looking at the same list of every AI resource, graded A to F.
- Decide. The customer sets what is allowed, what needs approval and what is denied. Enforcement starts when the customer authorizes it.
MSSPs and resellers in the region who want to work with AIBound should contact Tamkeen Security at tamkeensecurity.sa.
Talk to Tamkeen About AIBound
If you are an MSSP or a reseller in the Middle East, Tamkeen Security is the route in.
If you are an enterprise and want to see what is running on your own endpoints, ask your Tamkeen partner for a scoping call, or book a demo with AIBound directly.
Install takes 15 minutes. Book a Demo
About Tamkeen Security. Tamkeen Security is a Saudi Arabia-based value-added cybersecurity distributor. It works with partners to bring innovative security solutions to organisations in the Kingdom and beyond. Learn more at tamkeensecurity.sa.
About AIBound. AIBound is an Enterprise AI Security Platform for AI Usage Control (AIUC) at the endpoint, where your employees' AI already runs: the agents, MCP servers, skills, models, apps, and prompts most security stacks can't see.
Founded by the former Global CISO of Palo Alto Networks and Chief Trust Officer of Workday, AIBound was built by security operators for security operators. Learn more at aibound.com.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Tamkeen Security?
Tamkeen Security is a Saudi Arabia-based value-added cybersecurity distributor. It works with partners to bring security solutions to organisations in the Kingdom and beyond. Under this partnership it distributes AIBound to MSSPs and resellers across the Middle East.
What is AI Usage Control (AIUC) at the endpoint?
AI Usage Control (AIUC) at the endpoint is finding, grading and stopping the high-risk AI your employees already run, on the endpoints where it runs. That covers agents, MCP servers, skills, models, apps and prompts. It also means keeping evidence for audit.
Does AIBound need network taps or a rip-and-replace?
No. IT pushes the AIBound Secure Client like any other app, with no network taps and no rip-and-replace.
Does AIBound replace our GRC platform?
No. AIBound feeds audit-ready evidence into the GRC program a customer already runs, mapped to the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001. It supplies the endpoint evidence a GRC platform does not reach.
How long does it take to see results?
Install takes 15 minutes. Every AI resource is graded A to F on evidence, so the team can focus on the few that carry real risk.
About AIBound
AIBound is an Enterprise AI Security Platform for AI Usage Control (AIUC) at the endpoint. It was founded by the former Global CISO of Palo Alto Networks and the Chief Trust Officer of Workday. Learn more at www.aibound.com.
Media contact
AIBound. Niall Browne, Co-founder and CEO. Analysts and media who want a briefing can contact:
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