Horangi, a Singapore-headquartered cybersecurity company founded by former Palantir engineers, and Huawei Cloud have announced a partnership to sell cloud security to organisations running on Huawei Cloud across ten countries in Asia-Pacific. The product at the centre of it is Warden, Horangi's cloud security posture management tool, which the company says will keep such organisations in line with local rules.

Horangi's specific claim is about compliance automation. It says Warden is the only cloud security product that automates compliance for regional standards — Malaysia's BNM-RMiT, Indonesia's OJK and Singapore's MAS TRM — alongside international ones such as SOC 2, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS, with Thai rules to follow. Paul Hadjy, Horangi's chief executive and co-founder, describes the firm as among the first Southeast Asian security vendors to support Huawei Cloud; Nicole Lu, who leads Huawei Cloud's ecosystem in the region, links the choice to Horangi's record in Asia.

What regional compliance automation means

Cloud misconfiguration and stolen credentials are, by IBM Security's account as cited in the release, a leading cause of cloud incidents, and a tool that maps a customer's settings to a regulator's checklist does something concrete. Whether it is unique is harder to test: compliance mapping is now a feature many posture tools offer, and uniqueness claims in this market are difficult to verify from outside, particularly for country-specific standards that themselves change.

Two things the release does not contain are a customer and a price. It does say Warden was scheduled to go live on Huawei Cloud in late October 2021, just before the announcement, and that Horangi had been named a partner in Singapore's SG Cyber Safe programme. A national-security-adjacent cloud provider is an unusual ally for a Singapore security firm, and whether customers follow is the test the announcement does not settle.