21 billion devices. An attack surface beyond control.
Non-patchable firmware, protocols with no authentication, an opaque supply chain — and a Cyber Resilience Act coming into force in 2026. Manufacturers and industrial operators no longer have the luxury of waiting.
WHY THE IOT IS THE MOST EXPOSED BORDER
OUR SERVICES
QREDTEAM
ADVERSARY SIMULATION
- Red Team on IIoT/OT infrastructure — factories, smart buildings, utilities
- Pentest of IoT devices before CRA certification or market release
- Simulation of the IT→OT pivot from the corporate network to the controllers
- Testing of OTA mechanisms — a major unauthenticated attack vector
- Red Team on industrial protocols Modbus, BACnet, OPC-UA.
QLAB
DEEP SECURITY RESEARCH
- Reverse engineering of IoT/IIoT firmware without source access
- Hardware analysis: JTAG, UART, flash extraction, SCA/FIA on MCUs
- 0-day research on PLCs — Modicon, SIMATIC, FactoryTalk
- Supply-chain audit of third-party components in firmware
- SBOM evaluation and CRA 2027 compliance roadmap.
QSHIELD
SOFTWARE PROTECTION
- Protection of firmware against reverse engineering and competitor cloning
- Anti-counterfeiting for manufacturers exporting to risky markets
- Obfuscation of proprietary libraries in connected equipment
- IP protection of embedded algorithms against side-channel analysis
- Code-level attack-surface reduction — CRA Art. 13 compliance.
QUARKSLAB DIFFERENTIATOR
Quarkslab is one of the few players to master the entire offensive IoT chain: from the hardware component — SCA/FIA, JTAG — through network exploitation to the protection of embedded code. Defensive competitors (Dragos, Claroty, Armis) do detection and monitoring; they don’t find the vulnerabilities. Generalist consultancies (Wavestone, Atos) lack the hardware and firmware depth. QShield is the market’s unique offering for protecting manufacturers’ embedded code against competitor or nation-state cloning.
WHAT WOULD WE SAY TO EACH OTHER, FACE TO FACE
Is your firmware really secure — or simply never audited?
The Cyber Resilience Act changes everything: for the first time, a manufacturer can be held liable for its firmware’s vulnerabilities after market release. The question is no longer “do we need an audit?” — it’s “will we have time to do one before September 2026?” Quarkslab delivers a complete firmware audit with SBOM and CRA roadmap in 4 to 8 weeks depending on product complexity.