Validate Real-World Risk in Shipped Products
Our engagements validate real exploitability in shipped firmware and deployed environments, grounded in actual system architecture, realistic attacker behavior, and regulatory context, not generic checklists or one-off reports.
Why Traditional Pentests Fall Short
Most penetration tests generate short-lived value:
Findings are not tied to shipped firmware, binaries, or deployed configurations
Results are disconnected from documented threat models and security requirements
Evidence is difficult to reuse for audits, certifications, or customer security reviews
Retesting requires starting from scratch, even for incremental releases
For connected products operating under regulatory and customer scrutiny, this creates unnecessary risk, duplicated effort, and brittle compliance artifacts.
Our Approach
We combine expert-led offensive testing with the Finite State platform so results strengthen both security and compliance outcomes over time. This is not checklist-driven scanning delivered through a SaaS interface.
Architecture-Aware Testing
Testing is informed by your actual product architecture and deployment model.
Inputs may include:
- System and data-flow diagrams
- Firmware images and update packages
- Hardware access paths and exposed interfaces
- Cloud services, mobile applications, and backend APIs
- Existing threat models and security requirements
These inputs directly shape test planning and attack path selection, ensuring coverage of realistic risk across device, cloud, and ecosystem boundaries.
Firmware-Grounded Validation
All findings are validated against shipped binaries, configurations, and runtime behavior.
We focus on:
- Production firmware images
- Real protocol implementations
- Deployed services and interfaces
- Debug, update, and management paths exposed in practice
This grounds results in what an attacker can actually exploit, not what static analysis alone suggests.
Exploitability-Focused Results
We prioritize reachable and meaningful risk.
Findings are assessed based on:
- Required attacker access
- Realism of preconditions
- Ability to chain into higher-impact outcomes
- Feasibility in real deployments
Each finding documents how the issue is exercised, what it enables, and the conditions required for exploitation, helping teams avoid spending cycles on issues that cannot be reached outside a lab.
Platform-Native Evidence and Longevity
All findings, evidence, and remediation guidance are delivered directly into the Finite State platform.
This enables teams to:
- Maintain traceability between verified attack paths, security requirements, and regulatory controls
- Reuse evidence for audits, certifications, and customer security reviews
- Compare findings across firmware versions and releases
Instead of exporting knowledge into static reports, security evidence remains tied to the product as it evolves.
What This Looks Like in Practice
Example Validated Attack Path
Objective: Demonstrate unauthorized control of the device update mechanism
- Extracted production firmware from shipped hardware
- Identified an undocumented debug interface exposed on an internal header
- Recovered hardcoded credentials reused across services
- Chained access into a device management API
- Demonstrated an unauthorized OTA update path affecting deployed devices
Each step is captured with reproduction steps, supporting evidence, impact assessment, and mapped security requirements and mitigations.
What Penetration Testing Looks Like at Finite State
Engagements are scoped to your product architecture, deployment model, and regulatory obligations.
Common engagement types include:
- Product and firmware penetration testing
- Network and interface testing, including wired, wireless, and protocol analysis
- Red team exercises for connected products and ecosystems
- Regulatory-driven testing aligned to FDA, ISO 21434, IEC 62443, and EU CRA expectations
All engagements are led by Finite State security engineers with deep experience testing connected and regulated products.
Our testers have backgrounds in:
- Embedded and firmware reverse engineering
- Device-to-cloud attack chaining
- Security testing for medical, automotive, and industrial systems
- Regulatory-driven product security assessments
Testing is not outsourced, automated, or junior-led.
Red Teaming for Connected Products
Red team engagements are objective-driven exercises designed to validate whether realistic attackers can achieve defined outcomes in deployed product environments.
These engagements focus on:
Chaining attacks across device, cloud, mobile, and backend components
Abusing update, provisioning, or lifecycle workflows
Demonstrating paths to real operational or business impact
Engagements are time-boxed, collaboratively scoped, and executed to balance realism with operational safety. The goal is not volume of findings, but demonstrated attacker capability against agreed objectives.
What You Receive
Verified findings tied to real, end-to-end attack paths
Clear remediation guidance mapped to security requirements and controls
Evidence that remains usable across releases, audits, and certifications
Who This Is For
Product security teams validating real exploitability
Compliance and regulatory teams preparing defensible evidence
Engineering leaders seeking assurance without slowing delivery
Ready to Plan Your Pentest?
Discuss your product architecture, threat surface, and testing goals with our experts. We will define a scoped engagement aligned to your technical reality and regulatory environment.