THE PHOSPHORUS
15-30-60 xIoT Challenge
A Framework for Preventing xIoT Threats Faster.
SURVIVAL OF THE FASTEST
The 15-30-60 Rule for Preventing xIoT Threats Faster
TO STAY AHEAD OF xIoT THREATS YOU MUST:
DISCOVER IN
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min
HARDEN IN
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min
REMEDIATE IN
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min
- Without agents, hardware, or hassles
THE CURRENT STATE
Three of the Most Challenging xIoT Security Gaps
LACK OF FULL VISIBILITY
Legacy passive discovery solutions depend on network monitoring to perform discovery, resulting in limited visibility, inaccurate inventory, long mean-time-to-inventory, and high network impact.
Legacy active solutions fail with xIoT assets because of their brute-force device approaches that result in disrupted and degraded operations.
Legacy active solutions fail with xIoT assets because of their brute-force device approaches that result in disrupted and degraded operations.
NO HARDENING OR REMEDIATION
Legacy passive IoT and OT security solutions — including every other Cyber-Physical System (CPS) Protection Platform — are detection-based only, and do not provide any hardening and remediation capabilities. Without Phosphorus, hardening and remediation of xIoT assets is primarily a manual process.
HIGH COST & COMPLEXITY
Infrastructure-dependent legacy solutions require big network investments — including SPANs & TAPs — and are slow, complex, error-prone, and costly.
A NEW APPROACH
The Key to Preventing IoT, OT, & IoMT Threats
THE PHOSPHORUS 15-30-60 xIoT CHALLENGE*
A Framework for Preventing IoT Threats Faster
*Estimated times to completion are based on typical network configuration.
Actual times may vary, depending on specific configurations and complexities of network environment.
Actual times may vary, depending on specific configurations and complexities of network environment.
CLOSING THE xIoT SECURITY GAP:
Do you Meet the15-30-60 Rule?
With Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) outnumbering traditional endpoints by an order of magnitude, the xIoT security gap continues to grow — with IoT and OT devices representing up to 30% of the overall enterprise attack surface.
And, the majority of these critically vulnerable xIoT devices are still UNKNOWN, UNMANAGED, and UNMONITORED.
Meanwhile, legacy IoT and OT security tools fail to deliver on the promise of proactive, efficient, and lightweight xIoT security:
SURVIVAL OF THE FASTEST*
The Phosphorus 15-30-60 xIoT Framework. See For Yourself.
*Estimated times to completion are based on typical network configuration.
Actual times may vary, depending on specific configurations and complexities of network environment.
Actual times may vary, depending on specific configurations and complexities of network environment.
Fulfilling the Promise of Proactive xIoT Security Management and Breach Prevention
At Phosphorus, we believe that every organization should be empowered to fundamentally reduce risk by meeting the 15-30-60 rule for xIoT security and threat prevention.
15 MINUTES TO DISCOVER
Discovering, identifying, and assessing every xIoT device in your environment is the first step to proactively reducing risk on vulnerable IoT, OT, IIoT, and IoMT Cyber-Physical Systems. The sooner you can find and assess every xIoT device in your environment — without having to deploy agents or hardware — the sooner you can prioritize automated hardening and remediation actions to fix default passwords, insecure configurations, and vulnerable unpatched firmware.
On average, it can take days to weeks to discover the same number of xIoT devices with legacy passive and active discovery tools compared to Phosphorus with incomplete and inaccurate results Legacy passive and active discovery tools can take days to weeks with incomplete and inaccurate results — combined with disrupted or degraded operations. And this doesn’t include the time it takes to procure, deploy, and set up all the costly and complex infrastructure.
Phosphorus' Unified xIoT Security Management Platform can be up and running in minutes, enabling our patented and deterministic Intelligent Active Discovery engine to find, identify, and assess all of your xIoT devices in as fast as 15 minutes (for a typical Class B network) – without infrastructure or agents.
30 MINUTES TO HARDEN
Across most industry segments, 75% of xIoT devices are deployed with default passwords. And nearly as many are deployed with insecure and risky configurations, like Telnet, enabled. These vulnerabilities represent one of the most crucial attack vectors to fix on often mission-critical or life-critical IoT, OT, and IoMT devices in your environment. Seamlessly, safely, and efficiently hardening device configurations and credentials on your xIoT devices is fundamental to proactively managing the security hygiene of your xIoT attack surface.
Phosphorus finds that most organizations fail to change, manage, and harden device configurations and passwords since doing so at scale — and across all types of IoT, OT, IoMT Cyber-Physical Systems — is simply not possible with legacy IoT and OT tools. It can take, on average, 60 hours to manually change and update passwords and configurations on even a single category of xIoT devices. And this doesn’t include the regular rotation of passwords according to industry best practices.
With Phosphorus, you can be hardening device configurations and changing default passwords at scale, and in as little as 30 minutes after deploying our software-based platform.
60 MINUTES TO REMEDIATE
In addition to hardening configurations and passwords on multitudes of xIoT devices, remediating and patching Cyber-Physical Systems remains a very difficult problem to solve for enterprises and operators. This is while the number of IoT and OT vulnerabilities continues to grow at a rapid rate. Across all xIoT devices, the average age of firmware is 7 years, with 68% of devices having High to Critical CVSSs that are unpatched and exploitable.
However, like fixing default passwords and risky configurations, most organizations simply aren’t managing firmware or patching their vulnerable xIoT devices. With millions of unique IoT, OT, IIoT, and IoMT device models, the prospect of manually managing firmware across your ever-expanding xIoT estates is a massive security gaps since legacy tools are simply not capable of safely and automatically remediating and patching firmware – especially on sensitive, mission-critical, and life-critical Cyber-Physical Systems.
Manually remediating and patching even a single category of xIoT devices — while ensuring device integrity and safety — can take over 100 hours of manual time and effort, on average.
With Phosphorus’ automated CPS Protection Platform, you can be safely and efficiently patching and remediating even the most sensitive, mission-critical xIoT devices in as little as 60 minutes — with full control.
See for yourself how your organization can meet the 15-30-60 Rule for xIoT threat prevention and start to proactively reduce your risk today!
TAKE THE 15-30-60 xIoT CHALLENGE
When you take the Challenge, Phosphorus comes to your door for a live 15-30-60 Proof-of-Value Engagement.
SCHEDULE YOUR FREE 15-30-60 xIoT CHALLENGE WORKSHOP
Commit to securing and managing your entire xIoT attack surface without a massive time commitment.
