Your connected devices are more exposed than you think.
Every sensor, controller, and connected device in your environment is a potential entry point.
Most were never built with security in mind, and most organizations have no idea how many they’re running.
THE PROBLEM
You can’t secure what you can’t see.
IoT and IIoT devices have quietly become one of the largest and least-scrutinised attack surfaces in most organizations.
They’re deployed fast, often by operational teams rather than security teams, and they rarely make it onto the patching schedule. Default credentials go unchanged. Firmware goes unreviewed. And because they’re not traditional IT endpoints, they’re frequently invisible to your existing security tooling.
Attackers know this.
A compromised sensor or controller isn’t just a device problem — it’s a foothold into your network, your operational systems, and in some environments, your physical infrastructure.
What we test
Device & firmware security
Extracting and analyzing firmware to identify hardcoded credentials, insecure boot processes, and exploitable vulnerabilities beneath the device surface.
IIoT environments
Industrial IoT deployments connecting sensors, controllers, and edge devices to operational systems.
We identify the paths that bridge your IoT estate to your critical infrastructure.
Authentication & access controls
Default credentials, weak authentication, and privilege escalation paths that give an attacker persistent access from a single compromised device.
Network exposure & segmentation
How your IoT devices communicate, what they can reach, and whether they’re isolated from systems they have no business accessing.
HOW WE APPROACH IT
Hardware-level testing. real-world attack paths.
IoT testing requires a different approach to traditional IT penetration testing. We go beyond the network layer, analyzing devices at the firmware and hardware level to find vulnerabilities that a network scan would never surface.
01 Device & Asset discovery
Identifying what’s actually on your network, including devices your own team may not know are there.
02 Firmware analysis
Extracting and reviewing device firmware for hardcoded credentials, insecure configurations, and exploitable vulnerabilities.
03 ACTIVE device TESTING
Authentication bypass, privilege escalation, and exploitation of identified vulnerabilities – scoped carefully to avoid operational impact.
04 FINDINGS VIA THE PORTAL
Real-time findings as we discover them, not a PDF three weeks later. Direct access to your CovertSwarm team to validate fixes and retest.
WHAT WE FIND
The Vulnerabilities Hidden In Plain Sight.
IoT devices consistently surface some of the most exploitable vulnerabilities we encounter. Not because they’re technically complex, but because they’re overlooked.
Default credentials, direct access to supposedly isolated systems. Completely overlooked by every previous assessment.
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KNOW WHAT’S ON YOUR NETWORK.
Our IoT specialists will map your connected device estate and build a testing plan around your environment and risk exposure
