Most IoT Breaches Aren’t Zero-Days—They’re Trust Failures

So most breaches don't come from zero days. they They're not just something that people randomly stumble over. They come from devices that trust inputs, maybe blindly, through connections or code that shouldn't be trusted. Again, another plug to Finite State, this is what is our bread and butter. We allow that kind of introspection into ah they the binary, the firmware to allow us to see what third party devices, third party libraries is it using? What SDKs are it you is it using? And you know what about those could be vulnerable What about those are insecure? What about them have map CVEs? So you're getting an intense insight into your device and all of the third party components that it's using. So you don't have to blindly trust all of these ah third parties and this free open source software. You can go in with confidence knowing that your device is using them in a secure way and that they're secure themselves. So, you know for example, you know people, unfortunately, You know, devices we see, you know, out in the ether, things that we pen test, we often see them accepting unsigned firmware binaries because, you know, it only updates over land. It's not going to go over Wi-Fi. Again, assumptions lead to problems. and you know Another example, a cloud API trusting a serial number with no authentication or a debug port left open because you know no one's going to crack this open. We screwed it with seven screws or we glued the edges. I mean, no one's going to go through that. you know People do. you know People have a lot of time on their hands. And so assuming that something is safe simply because you just feel like people won't make the effort to do that or people just won't stumble across it, people will. That's why you need to design with defense in depth. You need to ensure not one compromised component compromises the entire system. So it's not the bug count that matters. It's the flawed logic about who and what can be trusted by these IoT devices. Trusting everyone is really kind of a recipe disaster. So ensuring that you have that visibility into all the different open source components your IoT devices uses because of the you know the incredible capabilities of our platform, you can go in with confidence knowing that you're trusting the correct people, you're trusting the correct code, and that is not you could spend all day securing your IoT device. But you know if you're allowing unsecured or very insecure code, it really doesn't matter at the end of the day. So that's where real attackers operate. And too often, you know it's where engineering team teams fail to really ask the right questions.