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US-based Phosphorus Cybersecurity has established its foot in the door to the local region with two local hires, including CrowdStrike’s formal regional director for Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ), Tom Beresford, and Palo Alto Networks’ former regional chief security officer, Alex Nehmy.
Phosphorus Cybersecurity is a cyber-physical systems platform that delivers a proactive approach to security management for connected devices across the IoT, OT, IIoT and IoMT landscapes.
In a LinkedIn post, Beresford wrote that after “almost [seven] years, my time at CrowdStrike has come to an end.”
“Without a doubt, the greatest chapter in my career and certainly the one I’m most proud of,” he said.
Beresford told ARN leaving CrowdStrike was hard.
“This was a difficult decision to make,” he said. “My time at CrowdStrike is to date, the highlight of my career.
“We built a brand at a scale and speed that’s never been done before. I’ll miss the culture, the people, and the way that the Falcon platform changed the game for so many Australian organisations.”
According Beresford, Phosphorus Cybersecurity has done the “hard engineering yards” to build a platform that is solving problems that the enterprise has put into the too hard basket for too long.
“CrowdStrike is as strong as ever and I leave behind an incredibly capable team that will I am sure remain laser focused on stopping breaches,” he said.
“The CrowdStrike brand has customer evangelism like our industry has never seen before – and if we can repeat just some of that at Phosphorus, we’ll be in rarified air. That’s absolutely a goal of mine and I am personally thrilled to be part of building something special again at Phosphorus.”
Beresford stated in his LinkedIn post that he would be a “founding member of the APJ Team at Phosphorus Cybersecurity alongside its “newly minted APJ [chief technology officer], Alex Nehmy”.
Nehmy most recently served as regional chief security officer at Palo Alto Networks. He publicly announced on LinkedIn that he started at Phosphorus on 16 August.
“IoT and operational technology are transforming industries[;] from manufacturing, transportation and hospitals to airports, energy grids and smart cities, IoT is becoming pervasive and critical,” he wrote.
“Securing these inherently insecure devices is the next great cyber security challenge. We cannot have a world controlled by digital systems without being able to rely on them to be safe and available when we need them.”