PASHA member Averox has been declared the Most Advantageous Bidder for the establishment of a Cyber Operations and Defence Emulation Lab at Pakistan’s National Computer Emergency Response Team, awarded through a highly competitive Single Stage Single Envelope public procurement process under the National Telecommunication and Information Technology Security Board.
Averox secured the Red Team Suite lot after achieving the highest combined evaluation score across all participating bidders, a result that reflects both the technical merit of its proposed solution and the credibility of the company as a locally developed cybersecurity provider capable of delivering on a critical national infrastructure contract. The win is significant not only for Averox but for Pakistan’s broader technology industry, as it demonstrates that indigenously built cybersecurity solutions can compete and succeed at the highest level of national security procurement against both domestic and international alternatives.
The solution at the centre of the bid is Averox’s Autonomous Security Validation Platform, an indigenously engineered system designed for continuous, agentless security validation against evolving cyber threats. The platform operates without requiring agents to be installed on target systems, allowing it to test and validate security postures across an organisation’s infrastructure with minimal operational disruption while maintaining an up-to-date picture of vulnerabilities and exposure. For a national cyber defence facility such as the nCERT lab, the ability to continuously emulate real-world attack scenarios and validate defensive controls in an automated manner is precisely the capability that red team and security operations environments require to stay ahead of the threat landscape.
PASHA highlighted the achievement as part of its Milestone Saturday series recognising member company accomplishments, noting that the contract win underscores the growing capability of Pakistan-built cybersecurity solutions to support critical national initiatives and contribute to the country’s digital resilience at the institutional level. The nCERT Cyber Operations and Defence Emulation Lab, once established, will serve as a dedicated facility for testing, simulating, and responding to cyber threats against Pakistan’s national digital infrastructure, making Averox’s role in building its foundational security validation layer a contribution of direct national strategic significance.
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