Strategic partnership brings AI-powered threat intelligence, dark web monitoring, and attack surface management solutions to SOC teams and MSSPs across the Middle East and Africa to address rising cyber governance mandates.
Security operations teams across the Middle East and Africa are gaining enhanced visibility into external threats following an agreement by AI SPERA’s Criminal IP to appoint Reconn as its regional distributor. The partnership brings decision-ready threat intelligence and AI-powered attack surface management (ASM) directly to managed security service providers (MSSPs), SOC teams, and threat analysts across North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East.
Organizations across the MEA region face unique operational hurdles, from advanced threat actors targeting infrastructure to complex cloud and hybrid environments that stretch traditional monitoring tools. Compounding these challenges are strict regulatory mandates from central banks and governing bodies—such as the CBUAE, SAMA, DFSA, CBN, BRSA, and NCA-EC, which increasingly require rigorous visibility into external threats and attack surface exposure.
Criminal IP addresses these gaps through continuous global IP scanning across 4.29 billion addresses. By tracking threat actors, identifying command-and-control (C2) servers, and surfacing leaked credentials before attacks materialize, the platform significantly reduces the window between detection and response.
“Every SOC and MSSP we talk to in the region faces the same problem: they need to see threats coming at them from outside their network,” said Shenoy Sandeep, Founder of Reconn. “This partnership lets us bring that capability to our customers helping them detect threats before attacks happen, respond faster, and actually know what they’re defending.”
Operating in over 150 countries and integrated with more than 40 cybersecurity platforms—including Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, OpenCTI, and Wazuh, Criminal IP’s infrastructure is built for seamless API-first integration into existing SIEM, SOAR, and XDR workflows.
By teaming up with Reconn, AI SPERA aims to pair its advanced scanning and enrichment capabilities with localized implementation support, proof-of-concept engineering, and compliance training.
“We see the Middle East and Africa as a strategically important region where organizations are increasingly looking for greater visibility into external threats and their expanding attack surfaces,” noted Byungtak Kang, CEO of AI SPERA. “Our partnership with Reconn combines Criminal IP’s global threat intelligence and attack surface management capabilities with Reconn’s strong regional expertise and customer network.”
Through this distribution agreement, regional enterprises will leverage two flagship pillars of the Criminal IP ecosystem:
- Threat Intelligence (TI): Powered by AI and OSINT, TI delivers threat scoring, reputation data, and real-time detection of malicious indicators across IPs, domains, and URLs, while masking services like anonymous VPNs and proxies.
- Attack Surface Management (ASM): Combines continuous asset discovery with deep threat context—such as vulnerability intelligence, C2 detections, and dark web exposure, empowering teams to proactively prioritize and mitigate exposures.
Organizations interested in evaluating the platform can explore the free threat intelligence search engine at search.criminalip.io or reach out directly to Reconn for localized demonstrations, implementation planning, and attack surface assessments.
