Binary Analysis for Connected Devices
Much of the software in your products arrives without source code. Finite State analyzes firmware, binaries, containers, and mobile apps to produce a component inventory, vulnerability context, and the secrets and crypto issues sitting in the build.
THE CHALLENGE
Most of What You Ship Arrives Compiled
Third-party SDKs, board support packages, vendor firmware, and procured software all show up as binaries. Source-based tooling has nothing to read.
No source code
Suppliers ship executables, not repositories.
No build system
You don't control the pipeline that produced the artifact.
Modified components
Vendored and patched open source stops matching anything upstream.
Late-stage changes
Packaging can introduce components your build scans never saw.
OUR APPROACH
Read the Artifact Itself
The Finite State Platform unpacks the software you ship, identifies every component inside it, and matches each one against vulnerability and exploit intelligence. Statically linked and modified components get identified the same way as declared dependencies. What comes out is a ground truth software inventory that the rest of your product security work runs on.
From Artifact to Ground Truth Inventory
Inside the analysis
Unpack firmware images, containers, archives, and executables
Identify components with binary SCA, including modified and statically linked copies
Apply binary SAST to find weaknesses in the compiled code itself
Enrich every component with vulnerability, exploit, and license data
OUTPUTS
What Binary Analysis Surfaces
Component detection is the beginning. The same analysis surfaces credentials, cryptographic material, and license obligations.
Component Inventory
Every third-party, open source, and proprietary component in the build, exportable as an SBOM in CycloneDX or SPDX.
Vulnerability Context
CVEs and known exploits mapped to the components carrying them, with reachability analysis narrowing the list to what can be reached.
Secrets and Crypto
Hard-coded credentials, exposed keys, and cryptographic misuse found in the compiled code.
License Exposure
Open source licenses and obligations attached to components you inherited rather than chose.
OPERATIONAL IMPACT
Finite State Reads What Your Products Are Built From
Binary analysis is only useful if it can open the artifact in front of it.
Formats and Architectures
Binary instruction set architectures
Container, archive, and binary formats
Package managers
Findings analyzed for reachability since 2024
What Changes for Your Team
Analysis without cooperation. No source code request and no supplier questionnaire.
Components you didn't know about. Statically linked and vendored code shows up by name.
One inventory per product. Binary findings reconcile with source scans and supplier SBOMs.
FAQ
Binary Analysis Questions, Answered
FOUNDATION
Product Security Runs on Knowing What Shipped
SBOMs, reachability, VEX decisions, compliance packages, and pre-release testing all rest on knowing what's in the build. Binary analysis is where that starts.
See What's in Your Firmware
Bring one artifact, and we'll walk through the components, vulnerabilities, and secrets inside it.