embedded / iot
embedded/iot penetration testing
Adversarial testing for the devices and systems that quietly run your business—and your customers’ lives.
why embedded and iot systems are different
Embedded and IoT systems blend hardware constraints, long lifecycles, and always‑on connectivity. They often sit in places that are hard to patch, easy to overlook, and attractive to attackers. A meaningful test has to respect the realities of your deployment while still asking: what happens if someone really goes after this?
• Your devices ship into environments you don’t fully control.
• Updates are infrequent, risky, or operationally complex.
• Third‑party components, cloud services, and mobile apps extend your attack surface.
• A compromise could affect safety, uptime, or customer trust at scale.
We design tests that reflect how attackers discover, analyze, and abuse embedded and IoT systems—from firmware and protocols to cloud backends and mobile apps —then turn the results into concrete guidance for your teams.
what we test
We look at the device in context: silicon, firmware, network, and the services around it.
01/hardware
device, firmware & hardware interfaces
02/ecosystem
protocols, apps & cloud
03/operations
fleet & operational risk
- Local attack surface including ports, debug headers, and management interfaces.
- Firmware extraction, reverse engineering, and integrity checks.
- Secure boot, storage protections, and secrets handling.
- Wireless and wired protocols (BLE, Wi‑Fi, Zigbee, proprietary RF, IP, fieldbus).
- Mobile and desktop companion applications.
- APIs and cloud services that provision, manage, or receive data from devices.
- Enrollment, provisioning, and deprovisioning flows.
- Update and configuration management at scale.
- Detection, logging, and response options when something goes wrong.