Ship Predictably Without Late-Stage Security Escalations
Understand what’s actually in each build, determine whether vulnerabilities matter in the shipped configuration, and make release decisions that remain valid across variants, updates, and customer scrutiny—without turning security into a last-minute escalation.
Industrial Security Lives in the Release Cycle
Industrial teams operate under constraints most security tools aren’t designed for.
The Problems
- Products ship compiled binaries, supplier firmware, and third-party components, often without complete manifests or symbols.
- The same product may ship in dozens of configurations, each with different exposure profiles.
- Products remain deployed for years, with updates expected to be incremental, safe, and explainable.
- Late uncertainty doesn’t just slow delivery, it escalates quickly to engineering leadership.
In this environment, security must reduce unknowns at release, not introduce new ones.
The Consequences
- Findings arrive too late to resolve cleanly, forcing exceptions or shipment delays.
- CVE lists that don’t distinguish between theoretical presence and actual exploitability in a specific build and configuration.
- Results that don’t survive firmware changes, variant differences, or follow-on releases.
- SBOMs, impact analysis, and justifications recreated for each update, customer review, or escalation.
Industrial releases slip not because vulnerabilities exist, but because teams cannot prove whether they matter in time.
How Finite State Enables Predictable Release Readiness
Keep security aligned with industrial release workflows so it becomes a predictable release signal, not an escalation trigger.
Know What You're Shipping
Extract software components directly from firmware and binary images—not just declared manifests—to identify third-party libraries in stripped binaries and supplier-provided firmware. When extraction is incomplete, results are explicitly flagged so teams know what is proven, what is inferred, and what requires review.
Focus on Exploitable Risk
Reachability analysis determines whether vulnerable code paths can actually be executed in a given build and configuration. Releases are gated on exploitable exposure, not raw CVE counts.
Understand What Changed
As software evolves, Finite State highlights deltas between releases: what components changed, what new exposure was introduced, and which previously reviewed decisions remain valid. Teams avoid re-reviewing unchanged risk every release.
Reuse Decisions Across Variants and Updates
Risk assessments, VEX decisions, and supporting evidence remain tied to specific builds and configurations, allowing teams to reuse validated decisions instead of rebuilding justification under deadline pressure.
Audit-Ready Coverage for IEC 62443 and NIS2
When release decisions are grounded in shipped firmware, configuration-aware risk, and reusable evidence, compliance stops being a parallel process and becomes a natural output of the release process.
IEC 62443
Industrial Communication NetworksCybersecurity standards for industrial automation and control systems (IACS).
Key Requirements:
- Security by design
- Network segmentation
- Asset inventory
- Patch management
- Incident response
NIS2 Directive
Network & Information Systems SecurityEU cybersecurity requirements for essential entities in critical sectors.
Key Requirements:
- Risk management
- Incident reporting
- Business continuity
- Supply chain security
- Governance
CISA ICS Advisories
Critical Infrastructure SecurityAdvisories and recommendations for industrial control systems.
Key Requirements:
- Threat intelligence
- Vulnerability tracking
- Mitigation guidance
- Incident support
- Sector recommendations
Key Use Cases for Industrial Teams
Industrial organizations use Finite State to support:
Release Readiness & Security Gating
Make go/no-go decisions based on verified exposure, configuration context, and release status.
Design-to-Build Traceability
Maintain alignment between architecture intent and shipped reality.
SBOM & Vex Lifecycle Management
Generate and maintain defensible SBOM and VEX artifacts across long product lifecycles.
Reachability-Driven Vulnerability Prioritization
Focus remediation on exploitable risk across variants and builds.
Ready to Secure Your Industrial Operations?
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