Meet the Company

Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Dubai, The Kernel is a cybersecurity distributor and enablement partner serving the Middle East and Africa. The company focuses on trust and identity solutions, including identity management, multi factor authentication, privileged access management, public key infrastructure, cryptography, security operations, and strong authentication.

The Kernel’s regional footprint includes the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa, with Kernel Afrika supporting cybersecurity adoption across African markets from Johannesburg. Through this network, The Kernel helps vendors, channel partners, and organizations bring specialist security technologies into high growth markets with local enablement, training, technical support, and long term partner development.

Through its partnership with Skysnag, The Kernel adds automated email authentication, domain protection, secure email transport, and verified brand identity to its regional cybersecurity portfolio.

Challenge

Organizations across the UAE, Middle East, and Africa face a growing volume of phishing, domain spoofing, brand impersonation, and business email compromise threats. Attackers frequently exploit trusted domains, executive identities, customer facing brands, government communications, and supplier relationships to deceive recipients.

For enterprises, financial institutions, government entities, and service providers, email security cannot stop at mailbox filtering. A malicious message does not need to come from the organization’s own infrastructure to damage its reputation. If a domain can be spoofed or an unauthorized sender can impersonate the brand, customers, employees, and partners may still be exposed.

Many organizations in the region also operate complex email environments with cloud platforms, marketing systems, CRMs, ticketing tools, transactional platforms, and third party service providers. Without centralized sender visibility, it becomes difficult to know which systems are legitimately sending email and which sources should be monitored, remediated, or blocked.

Why Skysnag

Skysnag and The Kernel partnered to help organizations across the UAE and MEA region strengthen domain level email security with support from an established regional cybersecurity distributor.

Skysnag provides automated enforcement and monitoring for DMARC, SPF, DKIM, MTA STS, TLS RPT, and BIMI. The Kernel brings regional cybersecurity expertise, channel relationships, technical enablement, and deployment support for enterprises that require trusted local guidance.

Rollout model

Through this partnership, The Kernel will make Skysnag Protect and Skysnag Suite available to organizations across the UAE and wider MEA region. The rollout model is designed for customers that need enterprise grade domain security, but also require local support and channel led implementation expertise.

Skysnag helps automate the technical layer behind trusted email communication, while The Kernel supports regional adoption through partner enablement, customer education, technical guidance, and deployment support.

Rollout steps:

1. Discover legitimate senders: Customers gain visibility into the platforms, cloud services, third party tools, and internal systems sending email on behalf of their domains.
2. Enforce domain authentication: DMARC, SPF, and DKIM are configured, monitored, and enforced to help block unauthorized sending and reduce spoofing risk.
3. Expand trusted communication controls: MTA STS, TLS RPT, and BIMI help strengthen secure email transport, reporting visibility, and verified brand identity in supported inboxes.

Partnership proof signals

This partnership gives organizations across the UAE and MEA region access to Skysnag’s automated email authentication platform through a cybersecurity distributor with regional reach and specialist expertise in identity, authentication, PKI, cryptography, and enterprise security.

The partnership expands Skysnag’s regional channel presence while giving The Kernel’s customers and partners access to automated domain security, phishing defense, sender visibility, and verified email identity capabilities.

Partner perspective

This will be a truly great partnership built on shared values, trust, and collaboration. Skysnag’s reliable and extensive expert technical support is impressively fast without ever compromising quality, consistently delivering precise, high end solutions when it matters most.

Rami Kayyali, Director and CTO at The Kernel

Partnering with The Kernel marks a significant step forward in our mission to make email authentication accessible and impactful across the globe. Their regional presence and technical expertise make them an ideal ally in driving cybersecurity awareness and adoption across the MENA region.

Jad Aizarani, CEO at Skysnag

What this means for enterprise buyers

For CISOs, IT leaders, compliance teams, and security partners across the UAE and MEA region, domain level email protection is becoming a critical part of cyber resilience. Phishing and impersonation attacks target trust first. That makes authentication, enforcement, and sender visibility essential controls for protecting customers, employees, and brand reputation.

The Skysnag and The Kernel partnership helps regional organizations deploy these controls with automation, visibility, and local expertise. Customers can strengthen DMARC enforcement, improve sender governance, support BIMI readiness, and reduce the operational complexity usually associated with email authentication projects.

For channel partners, the partnership also creates a stronger path to deliver email authentication as a managed, repeatable security offering across enterprise, government, and regulated environments.

Looking ahead

As digital transformation accelerates across the Middle East and Africa, trusted communication will become even more important for enterprises, governments, banks, service providers, and high growth businesses.

Together, Skysnag and The Kernel will help organizations protect their domains, reduce impersonation risk, strengthen phishing defenses, and build a more trusted foundation for business communication across the region.