IoT assessment: firmware extraction and analysis, hardware/UART/JTAG interfaces, insecure protocols, and cloud/companion-app integration.
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Enumerate the full IoT ecosystem before touching it — the physical device, its companion mobile app, the cloud backend, and the network it talks on — plus regulatory and teardown intelligence.
Obtain, unpack, and analyze device firmware to find hardcoded secrets, vulnerable components, and insecure update mechanisms — the highest-yield phase of most IoT assessments.
Exercise the physical debug and storage interfaces — UART, JTAG/SWD, flash chips — and assess resistance to fault injection and side-channel attacks.
Assess the wired and wireless protocols an IoT device speaks — MQTT/CoAP, BLE, Zigbee/Z-Wave/RF, and exposed IP services — for authentication, encryption, and replay weaknesses.
Assess the companion mobile app, the device cloud API, and the device authentication/crypto that tie the ecosystem together — where remote, scalable device takeover usually lives.