Phosphorus Wins 2025 IoT Breakthrough Awards for “IoT Security Platform of the Year”

Prestigious Annual IoT Breakthrough Awards Program Recognizes Standout Internet-of-Things Companies and Products

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 8, 2025 – Phosphorus Cybersecurity Inc., the leading provider of unified, prevention-based security management for the xTended Internet of Things (xIoT), today announced that it has been selected as winner of the “IoT Security Platform of the Year” award in the 9th annual IoT Breakthrough Awards program conducted by IoT Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global Internet-of-Things (IoT) market today.

Phosphorus is the industry’s only proactive Cyber-Physical System (CPS) Protection Platform made to secure and manage the expanding IoT, OT, and IoMT (xIoT) attack surface. Phosphorus’ Unified xIoT Security Management Platform delivers safe, fast, and accurate discovery and assessment of all xIoT devices while enabling automated hardening and remediation at scale—all without agents, hardware, or hassles.

The Phosphorus platform is powered by Intelligent Active Discovery, its patented solution that provides accurate and granular discovery to identify device model, firmware version, serial number, certificate, end-of-life, and credential status. This powerful solution empowers organizations to mitigate vulnerabilities, update firmware automatically, rotate credentials, and isolate vulnerable devices with open ports, expired certificates, or out-of-support status.

In today’s evolving and dynamic enterprise landscape, traditional IT and IoT security solutions cannot find, fix, and manage the growing xIoT attack surface of millions of devices. Phosphorus enables organizations to take proactive credential and device hardening actions and quickly remediate vulnerabilities at scale while maintaining complete control in sensitive and critical environments.

“Unlike legacy solutions that run exhaustive scans that overwhelm the older systems and cause interruption, Phosphorus delivers a device-aware discovery designed for xIoT. Legacy solutions require changes to the environment they monitor. This process is intrusive and sometimes impractical for remote offices without IT personnel,“ said Steve Johansson, managing director at IoT Breakthrough. “Phosphorus discovers xIoT assets significantly faster and with much lower network traffic than traditional solutions, and its highly flexible agentless architecture can be deployed quickly, requiring no additional hardware, agent, or configuration change to the network. We’re excited to award Phosphorus with ‘IoT Security Platform of the Year!’”

The mission of the IoT Breakthrough Awards program is to conduct the industry’s most comprehensive analysis of the global Internet-of-Things industry and then recognize the ‘breakthrough’ innovators, leaders, and visionaries in a broad range of IoT categories, including Industrial and Enterprise IoT, Smart City technology, IoT Security, Connected Home and Home Automation, Connected Car, and many more. This year’s program attracted thousands of nominations from companies all over the world.

“The rise of xIoT technologies has created a vast attack surface that has long been overlooked. This award is a validation of our team’s hard work and commitment to solving one of the most important security issues facing all organizations today, from Fortune 500s to critical infrastructure and national governments,” said Chris Rouland, CEO of Phosphorus. “We’re honored to receive this recognition from IoT Breakthrough, and we will continue to develop groundbreaking solutions that automate the discovery, hardening, and defense of these critical Cyber-Physical Systems.”

Breakthrough features of Phosphorus include the platform’s unique ability to communicate with embedded xIoT devices in their native protocols. The company’s evidence-based risk assessment capability collects over three times more data points from xIoT assets than other services (including high-fidelity analysis of device posture, status of device credentials, current firmware version and CVEs, certificate status, risky configurations, end-of-life status, banned devices, etc.), making it significantly more granular and accurate than traditional vulnerability scanning or passive network monitoring-based approaches.

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About Phosphorus Cybersecurity
Phosphorus Cybersecurity® is the leading CPS Protection Platform delivering a proactive approach to security management for the expanding IoT, OT, and IoMT attack surface. Designed to find and secure the rapidly growing, unknown, and often unmonitored world of Cyber-Physical Systems across the xTended Internet of Things landscape, our Unified xIoT Security Management Platform provides unmatched security management across every industry vertical—delivering high-fidelity discovery and risk assessment, proactive hardening and remediation, and continuous monitoring and management. With patented xIoT Intelligent Active Discovery and risk assessment, Phosphorus automates the mitigation and remediation of the most significant IoT, OT, IIoT, and IoMT device vulnerabilities – including unknown and inaccurate asset inventory, default credentials, out-of-date and vulnerable firmware, risky configurations, banned and end-of-life devices, and expired or self-signed certificates. Follow Phosphorus on LinkedIn, X, BlueSky, and YouTube, and learn more at www.phosphorus.io.

About IoT Breakthrough
Part of the Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the IoT Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in Internet-of-Things technologies, services, companies and products. The IoT Breakthrough Awards program provides a forum for public recognition around the achievements of IoT companies and products in categories including Connected Home and Home Automation, Connected Car, Industrial IoT (IIoT) and Smart City, Consumer IoT and more. For more information visit IoTBreakthrough.com.

Tech Breakthrough LLC does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our recognition programs, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with award designations. Tech Breakthrough LLC recognition consists of the opinions of the Tech Breakthrough LLC organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Tech Breakthrough LLC disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this recognition program, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Media Contact for Phosphorus Cybersecurity Inc.
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