Phosphorus Cybersecurity Inc. SBIR Phase I Award, February 2021

The Air Force will bring a broad 5G and a broad array of networking-as-a-service over the next several years. One of the top unmet requirements of 5G deployment is the ability to manage and secure connected devices. With a distributed very high speed network, an innocuous device such as a health sensor or a smart watch could be compromised and easily used as a pivot to enable lateral movement across AFNET. There is not yet a concept of comply-to-connect in the 5G world. Phosphorus Cybersecurity Enterprise is a solution for managing the firmware and security patches, credentials and endpoint configuration of embedded devices (IoT/BoT/ICS).  Historically, this type of security is delivered to PC’s and servers with agents, however with the billions of IoT devices from thousands of manufactures, agent-based technology is not possible.   Phosphorus has developed an agent-less, completed automated platform for IoT security that acts as a radical force multiplier for security tasks and vulnerability remediation that have either been done by hand, or in most cases not at all.  The impact of this technology is full visibility into the customers embedded device world, and the ability to secure devices in an automated fashion, that have most likely never been secured at all.