Exploitability Findings
Validated issues with the attack path that reached them
The Challenge
A connected product ships as a stack. Boot firmware, drivers, an operating system, third-party libraries, cloud endpoints, and debug interfaces left enabled in production all travel together, and a tester's first job is working out which of them is worth the time.
Firmware arrives without source code or usable documentation.
Firmware, drivers, OS, applications, and cloud services in one product.
Test schedules compress against ship dates and procurement deadlines.
Findings need reproducible evidence behind them.
Before the Test
The Finite State Platform reads the build and returns a software inventory, the components inside it, and the risks already visible in the code, all while the engagement is still being scoped.
During scoping
Analyze firmware and binaries without source code
Open individual files inside the firmware for manual investigation
Surface hard-coded credentials and cryptographic material
Flag the components that warrant deeper manual review
How It Works
Threat modeling drives the plan for each device, and activities are selected to match how the product is built and deployed.
Fix the hardware revision and the firmware builds the engagement covers.
Platform analysis returns the inventory and the risks already visible in the code.
Practitioners work the surface by hand, chaining what the analysis surfaced.
Validated issues, remediation guidance, and the evidence behind both.
Bring the hardware revision, the build, and the deadline. We'll scope the pen test from there.
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Ship knowing what an attacker could actually reach. Our Red Team tests a specific hardware revision and build by hand, and every engagement ends with validated findings, remediation guidance, and evidence your customers and auditors can review.










Doc McConnell
Head of Policy and Compliance
THE APPROACH
Automation narrows the field. Our practitioners handle the exploitation, the chaining, and the judgment calls that decide whether a finding is real, so each side does the part it's better at.
Our team brings backgrounds in federal cybersecurity policy, embedded engineering, offensive testing, vulnerability research, SANS instruction, and BSides leadership.









Doc McConnell
Head of Policy and Compliance
THE APPROACH
Automation narrows the field. Our practitioners handle the exploitation, the chaining, and the judgment calls that decide whether a finding is real, so each side does the part it's better at.
Our team brings backgrounds in federal cybersecurity policy, embedded engineering, offensive testing, vulnerability research, SANS instruction, and BSides leadership.
During the Test
Reachability analysis and exploit context narrow the surface before hands-on testing starts, so the hours go to components that can be reached in the shipped build.
Where the hours go
binary instruction set architectures analyzed
of findings confirmed unreachable since 2024
"Using Finite State feels like showing up to a test with X-ray vision. Instead of wasting days on manual reverse engineering, I get an enriched SBOM, mapped vulnerabilities, crypto misuse, and even hard-coded secrets before I start."


After the Test
Testing tells you where the product stands on the day it's tested. Finite State keeps that picture current afterward through continuous monitoring, remediation validation, and product security posture management across releases.
Every engagement produces documentation your engineers can act on and your customers or regulators can review.
Deliverables
Validated issues with the attack path that reached them
Specific fixes tied to the affected component and build
Reproducible records supporting customer assurance, procurement, and regulatory review
The component inventory and vulnerability context behind the test
A readable account of product risk for engineering and business leadership
Related Resources
Testing connects to your release schedule, your compliance obligations, and how you manage risk after the product ships.