Blue Cloud Softech secures $9.63m defense cybersecurity contract

Blue Cloud Softech Solutions Limited signed a $9.63 million contract with Axiom Vortex Inc, a US-based defense technology company. The agreement focuses on deploying advanced EDR (Endpoint Detection & Response) and AI-Agentic Perimeter Security solutions for defense sector clients in Africa and the Middle East.

The partnership involves integrating Blue Cloud Softech’s Operational Technology (OT) Security Platform with Axiom Vortex's military-grade cryptographic technologies. This aims to deliver a comprehensive defense-grade cybersecurity framework, covering IT, OT, and network defense layers. The deployment, spanning strategic defense contractor facilities, is projected over a 15-month timeline.

Blue Cloud Softech's proprietary OT platform combines EDR, NDR, and XDR components with AI-based Agentic Perimeter Defense, and includes digital twin simulation for real-time threat modeling and vulnerability assessment across critical command and control systems, weapon interfaces, and secure communication networks.