Secure Your Connected Future with Comprehensive IoT Security Assurance
As IoT ecosystems expand, the attack surface grows exponentially. ACL Digital provides specialized security testing that goes beyond the software layer, addressing the unique challenges of resource-constrained devices, proprietary protocols, and integrated hardware-firmware architectures. Backed by 10+ years of expertise, our IoT security practice delivers dedicated penetration testing across embedded devices, covering firmware analysis, hardware interfaces, and cloud backends, ensuring your connected products are resilient against sophisticated physical and remote exploits, for complete end-to-end assurance.
To ensure that your products meet global security requirements and market trust benchmarks, our testing methodology is directly aligned with leading industry standards and regulatory frameworks, including GDPR (data privacy), HIPAA (for handling health data), PCI DSS (for payment-enabled IoT devices), ISO/IEC 27001 (ISMS compliance), FDA regulatory expectations, and IEC 62304.
Fortify
Physical & Hardware Integrity
Validate
The Chain of Trust
Neutralize
Protocol & Path Exploits
Scale
Control-Plane Resilience
Comprehensive Security across the IoT Ecosystem
Hardware & Debug Interface Security (Physical VAPT)
Assess hardware interfaces, device ports, and debug interfaces to reduce the risk of unauthorized access, tampering, and side-channel exposure.
Firmware, Boot, and Binary Security Analysis
Use reverse engineering and static/dynamic analysis to review firmware, secure boot, and binary integrity, uncovering hardcoded secrets, weak keys, and insecure update flows that weaken the chain of trust.
Communications & Protocol Security Validation
Audit communication protocols including BLE, Zigbee, Wi-Fi, cellular, LoRaWAN, and proprietary industrial protocols to reduce data integrity risks across the full communication path.
Cloud & Mobile Control-Plane Hardening
Test APIs, authentication and authorization mechanisms, and mobile and remote management components that control your device fleet, securing every interaction from edge to backend.
Accelerators/Frameworks
Our IoT Security Assessment Methodology
Our structured testing methodology provides comprehensive visibility into your product’s security posture while delivering actionable recommendations.
Planning
Define project objectives, establish assessment scope, and align security testing with business priorities.
Training
We prioritize your needs to create customized talent solutions.
Threat Modelling
Identify attack paths, analyze potential risks, and prioritize the areas that require deeper security validation.
Vulnerability Assessment
Perform comprehensive security assessments to discover, validate, and document vulnerabilities across hardware, firmware, communication layers, and supporting infrastructure.
Exploitation
Target identified vulnerabilities and safely attempt exploitation through controlled testing to validate real-world impact and business risk.
Reporting
Deliver detailed findings, prioritized risks, and practical remediation guidance that supports informed security decisions.
Why Choose ACL Digital to Secure Your IoT Ecosystem?
Silicon-to-Cloud Mastery
We perform deep-level hardware hacking, side-channel analysis, and firmware reverse-engineering to secure the very foundation of your connected devices.
Protocol-Agnostic Precision
Whether your fleet runs on BLE, Zigbee, LoRaWAN, or proprietary 5G stacks, we provide bespoke testing frameworks designed specifically for your device’s unique communication language and environment.
Defensive Reverse Engineering
Our team deconstructs binaries and bypasses secure boot chains to identify “Zero-Day” vulnerabilities that automated tools and standard enterprise tests often miss.
Lifecycle-Integrated Assurance
Our testing integrates into your R&D and manufacturing phases, ensuring your products are “Secure-by-Design” and remain resilient throughout their entire field life.
Client Impact
SIEM and Security Automation Orchestration for an Investment Bank
The client is a prominent French multinational investment bank faced challenges managing a high volume of security alerts and incident responses. ACL Digital partnered with them to enhance their security posture, streamline incident management, and ensure compliance.
The Challenges
- Large volume of security alerts hindered prompt addressing of critical threats.
- False positives led to critical issues being overlooked or unaddressed timely.
- Lengthy processes and manual incident management caused delays in incident resolution.
The Outcomes
- 70% reduction in response time was achieved through the automation of incident response and workflow management, allowing quicker threat mitigation.
- 50% fewer escalations to Tier 2/3 were realized due to automation and integrated threat intelligence, empowering the initial response team to handle incidents more effectively.
Technical Risk Assessment for a $100mn US-based Software Service Provider
A US-based multinational software service provider, specializing in commodity management platforms, experienced a critical security breach on a Linux machine hosting source code. ACL Digital partnered with them to conduct a comprehensive technical risk assessment across their on-premise and public cloud infrastructure assets.
The Challenges
- Applications hosted in a SaaS-based model on AWS cloud, lacked effective monitoring for security incidents
- Vulnerability of web-facing applications due to lack of a robust security posture
- Limited visibility into critical security incidents
The Outcomes
- 100% reduction in critical vulnerabilities, significantly enhancing defense against potential exploits
- 50% improvement in overall security posture with stronger threat detection, response, and mitigation capabilities.
Transformed Privileged Access Security and Implemented CyberArk Solution for $6bn Telecommunications Provider
A $6B telecommunications company in Belgium partnered with ACL Digital to design and deploy a tailored Privileged Access Security (PAS) solution and Identity Access Management system, providing secure, automated monitoring, control, and protection of privileged access to reduce security risks and bolster compliance.
The Challenges
- Privileged accounts have elevated permissions to access and modify sensitive systems and data.
- If compromised, they can gain unauthorized access to IT infrastructure and confidential information.
- Breaching privileged accounts can expose customer data and intellectual property.
- Compromised accounts can disrupt operations, disable security, and cause financial loss.
The Outcomes
- 70% reduction in manual, error-prone administrative processes, saving time and resources
- 60% improvement in regulatory compliance through the strengthened security of privileged access
