Cybersecurity Solutions

Embedded Systems & Hardware Security

Build secure, resilient products from design to end of life.

Truesec helps companies developing embedded systems, IoT devices, medical devices, industrial control systems, and connected products make security an integral part of the product lifecycle.

Solutions for Connected Products

Embedded Systems

IoT Devices

Medical Devices

Industrial Control

Connected Products

The Challenge

Product Security Demands a Lifecycle Perspective

A connected product must remain secure in the real world, often for many years and in environments where physical access, legacy components, and operational constraints change the risk picture.

Vulnerabilities can originate in a chipset, boot process, firmware component, debug interface, wireless protocol, cloud connection, supply chain, or update mechanism.

A compromised IoT device could expose customer data or become an entry point into a wider network. A vulnerability in a medical device or industrial control system could affect availability, safety, and critical operations.

 

Your Benefits

Stronger Security For Products and the Business Behind Them

Threat Detection of IT systems

Reduce Product and Operational Risk

Identify exploitable weaknesses early and prioritize issues that could affect safety, availability, sensitive data, intellectual property, or customer operations.

Build Security Into Product Development

Give engineering teams practical methods, tools, and knowledge to make better security decisions from concept to end of life without slowing innovation.

Navigate Regulation With Confidence

Prepare for the Cyber Resilience Act and relevant standards while strengthening customer trust and market readiness.

Our Capabilities

Secure Product Development Lifecycle

Security is most effective when it begins before implementation and continues after a product reaches the market. We help establish or improve a Secure Product Development Lifecycle tailored to embedded systems and hardware products.

Support can include maturity and gap assessments, security requirements, architecture and design reviews, threat modeling, secure hardware and firmware design, supply chain considerations, security verification, release criteria, vulnerability handling, coordinated disclosure, and update planning.

Product Security Testing

Hardware and Embedded Systems Security Testing

Discover how your product withstands realistic attacks before adversaries, customers, or certification activities expose weaknesses.

Our specialists perform security assessments and penetration tests of complete product solutions, combining hardware attacks with analysis of firmware, embedded software, communications, and connected services.

A product security penetration test can cover physical and debug interfaces, secure boot, firmware extraction, cryptography and key protection, authentication, update mechanisms, wireless communications, and exposed services.

Regulation and Standards

Product Regulation and Standards Readiness

The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) introduces cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements, including secure development, vulnerability handling, documentation, and security updates across the support period.

Truesec assesses your current state, identifies gaps, clarifies priorities, and builds a practical roadmap. Depending on your products and markets, this may include the Radio Equipment Directive (RED), the UK’s PSTI regime, and IEC 62443 for industrial automation and control systems.

Our goal is not compliance on paper. We help establish defensible practices and technical evidence that improve security in the product itself.

Regulation and Standards

CRA
Cyber Resilience Act
IEC 62443
Industrial cybersecurity
RED
Radio Equipment Directive
PSTI
Product security regime

Build Security Capability

Strengthen Product Security Across Your Teams

Product security improves when teams share an understanding of risk and can apply an attacker’s perspective to their own technology.

Expert-led threat modeling sessions map assets, trust boundaries, threats, and mitigations across the product and its ecosystem. We also deliver training and hands-on workshops adapted to your products, technology stack, and team maturity.

Your teams leave with shared priorities, practical skills, and actions they can apply directly to current and future products

One Partner for Your Complete Product Security Journey

Effective product security requires both an engineering mindset and an attacker’s perspective. Truesec brings together specialists in embedded systems, hardware security, secure development, penetration testing, strategic advisory, and incident response.

This breadth allows us to follow risks across technical and organizational boundaries, from a component on the circuit board to the processes used to maintain products in the field.

Frequently Asked Questions

Embedded Systems and Hardware Security FAQ

Answers to common questions about product security, testing, and regulatory readiness.

What is an embedded systems penetration test?

A controlled security assessment that examines how an attacker could compromise a physical product and its connected ecosystem. It can combine hardware attacks with firmware analysis, interface testing, protocol assessment, and testing of supporting services.

Which parts of a connected product can Truesec test?

Testing can include circuit boards, debug interfaces, processors and secure elements, boot processes, firmware, cryptographic key storage, update mechanisms, wired and wireless communications, exposed services, and ecosystem trust boundaries.

What types of products and systems can Truesec assess?

Examples include IoT devices, medical devices, industrial control systems and components, gateways, sensors, connected appliances, and other products combining hardware, firmware, communications, and supporting services.

When should product security activities begin?

Product security should begin during concept and architecture, when important design decisions can still be changed efficiently, and continue through testing, release, vulnerability handling, and product updates.

How can Truesec help with the Cyber Resilience Act?

Truesec can assess products and development processes, identify gaps, and create a prioritized readiness roadmap covering secure development, risk assessment, testing, technical documentation, vulnerability handling, disclosure, and update processes.

Can Truesec help with IEC 62443?

Yes. Support can include gap assessments, architecture reviews, threat modeling, security testing, and practical recommendations based on the relevant parts of IEC 62443.

Make Security Part of Your Product's DNA

Whether you are designing a new connected product, strengthening an existing portfolio, preparing for the Cyber Resilience Act, or need an independent penetration test, Truesec can help.