Periphery

Periphery is a leading developer of advanced AI-powered cybersecurity threat management solutions for embedded military and defence systems.

Our technology protects the embedded computers—running Linux, RTOS, or Android—found in drones, autonomous vehicles, wearable devices, rugged network gateways, and other mission-critical IoT platforms. Designed specifically for complex and resource-constrained environments, our solutions defend against ever-evolving cyber threats across the lifecycle of defence assets.

Periphery addresses the critical challenge of maintaining security and compliance in the field. Our tools allow embedded systems to be security-hardened both before and after deployment, ensuring resilience even in hostile or disconnected environments. Once deployed, devices continue to be monitored in real-time, enabling the immediate detection of anomalous behaviour or breaches—wherever they occur.

Founded by former NATO and BAE Systems engineers, Periphery brings deep expertise in securing complex, high-risk environments. Our founding team has spent decades working on the front lines of national security, where they identified the critical need for scalable, lightweight cyber defence tailored to embedded systems.

Today, Periphery operates internationally from its UK headquarters, working closely with defence partners to safeguard next-generation technologies across land, sea, air, and space domains.

Insights

SBOM risk analysis for enhanced security & regulatory compliance

Periphery Insights is a regulatory readiness assessment purpose-built to accelerate compliance with the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), NIS2, and other emerging defence and critical infrastructure cybersecurity requirements. Designed for embedded military systems, Insights delivers a rapid, one-week gap assessment and readiness review, providing clear, actionable recommendations tailored to your platform.

At its core, Insights performs a comprehensive risk and vulnerability analysis using Periphery’s proprietary embeddable agents to generate a complete and continuously updated Software Bill of Materials (SBOM). This enables the identification of risks in third-party and open-source components, including outdated libraries, misconfigurations, and software supply chain threats—alongside detailed remediation guidance.

Expert regulatory advice and support is provided throughout the assessment period. We also combine real-time telemetry analysis with penetration testing, enriched by threat intelligence gathered from Periphery’s global network of honeypots and emulated attacks. This intelligence-led approach ensures your embedded systems are not only compliant—but resilient—against real-world adversaries and the latest cyberattack methods.

Detect

Real-time threat monitoring for your mission critical devices

Periphery Detect delivers real-time threat monitoring for mission-critical XIoT devices operating in complex and contested environments. Purpose-built for embedded systems, our lightweight agents are optimised for performance on resource-constrained platforms, continuously analysing telemetry and behavioural data to detect anomalies and suspicious activity early.

Detect conducts advanced attack surface analysis, uncovering exploitable vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and common attack vectors across your embedded infrastructure. These insights are enriched with threat intelligence from Periphery’s global network of honeypots and emulated attacks, enabling high-confidence alerts and rapid incident response.

Detect is part of Periphery’s ongoing initiative supporting cyber defence and infrastructure resilience in Ukraine. Intelligence gathered from this frontline deployment will feed directly into our models, ensuring our customers benefit from real-world insights and early visibility of emerging tactics.

Supporting Linux at the device layer and RTOS at the application layer, Detect integrates seamlessly into existing command-and-control (C2) infrastructure via an intuitive interface and comprehensive APIs—delivering complete situational awareness without adding operational complexity.

Respond

Real-time adaptation to emerging cybersecurity threats

Periphery Respond, launching in late H1 2025, will provide real-time defence against emerging threats in embedded and XIoT systems, closing the gap between detection and protection. Respond enables operators to proactively harden devices in the field, even in air-gapped or disconnected environments, by countering the most critical attack classes, such as OS command injection, memory corruption, privilege escalation, and firmware tampering.

Respond embeds preventive logic and adaptive mitigation strategies directly on-device, limiting exploit windows and ensuring continuous compliance with evolving cybersecurity requirements without patching delays. Devices running Respond can neutralise threats in real time before they impact mission integrity or safety, especially in high-risk or regulated sectors like defence, critical infrastructure, and autonomous systems.