IoT & OT Penetration Testing
Connected devices, firmware and operational technology environments.
Security assessment of connected devices, firmware, wireless protocols and industrial control environments with safety-first methodology.
- Typical timeline
- Typically 2–4 weeks depending on device count
- Business benefit
- Secure connected products and production environments without risking uptime.
- Industries
- ManufacturingHealthcareGovernmentIT & Cloud ServicesRetail
Overview
What IoT & OT Penetration Testing covers
Connected devices combine hardware, firmware, radio protocols and cloud backends. A weakness in any layer can affect an entire deployed fleet.
In operational technology environments safety and availability come first: testing is passive by default and escalates only with explicit authorisation.
The problem we solve
Device fleets are hard to patch, and OT networks were designed for reliability rather than adversarial resistance.
Scope & outcomes
What we test and what you receive
Scope coverage
- Firmware extraction and analysis
- Hardware interfaces and debug ports
- Secure boot and update integrity
- Wireless and radio protocol security
- Device-to-cloud authentication and provisioning
- Mobile and web management interfaces
- OT protocol exposure and segmentation
- IT/OT boundary and remote access paths
Key benefits
- Reduced fleet-wide compromise risk
- Verified update and provisioning integrity
- Stronger IT/OT segmentation
- Product security evidence for customers
Deliverables
- Executive summary written for business stakeholders
- Technical findings with severity, CVSS and reproduction steps
- Evidence: requests, responses, screenshots and payloads
- Prioritised remediation roadmap
- Remediation support session with your engineers
- Re-test report and closure statement
Methodology
Our assessment process
- 01
Scoping with safety and availability constraints
- 02
Device and network architecture review
- 03
Passive OT traffic observation
- 04
Firmware and hardware analysis in the lab
- 05
Protocol and interface testing
- 06
Controlled exploitation where authorised
- 07
Risk analysis in operational context
- 08
Reporting with compensating controls
- 09
Re-testing after remediation
Tooling
Tools and techniques
Tooling supports expert manual testing — it never replaces it.
FAQ
IoT & OT Penetration Testing questions
No. OT testing is passive unless you explicitly authorise active testing, and active work is preferably performed on a lab or replica environment.
Yes, at least two representative units — one for non-destructive testing and one for invasive hardware analysis.
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Ready to scope IoT & OT Penetration Testing?
Talk to our offensive security team about scoping an assessment around your actual risk, stack and timelines.
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