Viakoo has published an open letter to the physical security community.

“The increasing convergence of physical and cyber systems presents a critical juncture for our industry,” said Viakoo. “The evolving landscape of threats, now heavily influenced by AI, demands a unified and collaborative response from the physical security community to protect our Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Gartner in a February 2025 report defines the term cyber-physical systems to encompass concepts such as IoT, smart city and systems created as a result of operational technology (OT) and IT convergence. CPS systems have one foot in the physical world and the other in the cyber world. Definitionally, physical security systems are cyber-physical systems and represent the largest number of CPS deployments. The rapid growth of the CPS attack surface and AI-driven threats has created unprecedented exposure management challenges, requiring remediation at a scale and speed never seen before. Beyond the sheer volume and diversity of CPS in physical security, we recognize that there are critical process and architecture issues that demand our collective attention in order to solve them.”

Read the full letter.