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Hardware & ICS: signals, embedded devices, and OT protocols

Where security meets the physical layer: decoding bus traffic and industrial-control protocols most testers never touch.

Client: Classified, under NDA
Engagement: Live engagement against a production-grade system (under NDA)
Logic-analyzer decodeSerial/bus protocolsICS/OT protocolsFirmware artifacts

What we did

Decoded captured digital signals with a logic analyzer to recover the data carried on an embedded device's bus, and analyzed industrial-control-protocol traffic to understand and manipulate device commands. This is the layer beneath the application, where the device, the wire, and the control protocol live.

Why it matters to a client

If your product is an IoT device, an embedded component, or touches operational technology, the risk is not only in the web dashboard, it is on the device and the wire. Very few application testers can work at this layer; combining it with web/API testing means one assessor can follow a flaw from the cloud all the way to the hardware.

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