Osama Al Zoubi, MEA VP, Phosphorus Cybersecurity, shared the company’s vision of redefining cyber-physical security through complete visibility, risk assessment, and remediation across connected devices. Based in Saudi Arabia, Al Zoubi noted Phosphorus’s growing success across healthcare, smart cities, manufacturing, and financial sectors—all considered vital to national infrastructure.
He explained that while traditional IT security is well-covered, IoT remains a weak link, with millions of unmanaged, unprotected devices such as infusion pumps, building controllers, and CCTV systems. Phosphorus’s advanced AI- and ML-driven platform discovers and secures every connected device—whether legacy or modern—without deploying agents or hardware. It identifies vulnerabilities, rotates passwords, patches firmware, and integrates with PKI systems to renew digital certificates.
Al Zoubi described this as securing the Extended Internet of Things (XIoT), encompassing IoT, OT, medical, industrial, and military devices. He also emphasized how AI-powered discovery and risk management enable organizations to achieve 100% device visibility, scalable management, and compliance across thousands of endpoints.
As AI-driven attacks rise globally, Al Zoubi warned that time is running out to secure IoT environments. Phosphorus aims to deliver purpose-built protection for the connected world—bridging the gap between IT and operational technology with an intelligent, vendor-agnostic cybersecurity platform.