BLOCKSECBRAIN // Independent Cybersecurity Services
We break things professionally —
before attackers break your business.
Firmware Security. Hardware Security. Penetration Testing. Threat Intelligence. AI-Powered Security Research. We don't sell hardware, promote products, or chase sales targets — we deliver unbiased, expert-driven security assessments your organisation truly needs. We help with RED & CRA product readiness for IoT and OT devices, plus AI Security Assessment for LLMs, GenAI, and agentic systems.
Unbiased Services
No product pushing. No hardware sales agenda.
RED & CRA Ready
IoT/OT product compliance: RED, CRA, IEC 62443, ISO 21434.
AI-Ready Defense
LLM red teaming, agentic testing, prompt injection.
Assessment Pipeline · Scope → Test → Validate → Report
Attack Surfaces
Independent Security Validation
Four attack surfaces. One senior-led team. Every finding manually reproduced and evidenced.
Firmware
Boot chain, update paths, binaries
IoT / OT
Protocols, field devices, industrial edge
Cloud
Identity, workloads, exposed services
AI Security
LLM red teaming and agent guardrails
100+
Enterprise Assessments
Web, Cloud, Mobile & AI Security
0%
Vendor Bias / Sales Agenda
100% Independent Validation
< 24h
Critical Vulnerability SLA
Immediate Triage & Escalation
100%
Manual Proof-of-Concept
Zero Noise or Scanner Swallowing
Industry Expertise
Built for Regulated and Safety-Critical Industries
We work where a security failure carries operational, contractual, and certification consequences — not just reputational ones.
Automotive OEMs & Tier-1
ECUs, telematics, and connected vehicle platforms
Industrial Automation
PLCs, SCADA, and plant-floor networks
IoT Manufacturers
RED & CRA product readiness, connected devices, gateways
Medical Devices
Connected diagnostics, monitoring, and hospital systems
Cloud & SaaS
Multi-tenant platforms and customer-facing services
Enterprise Security Teams
Internal validation, assurance, and audit support
Our Services
Real-World Security Testing With a Futuristic Enterprise Edge
Our specialists run real-world simulations to uncover risk, validate exploitability, and help your organisation remediate with confidence across enterprise, embedded, cloud, and AI attack surfaces.
AI Security Assessment & LLM Red Teaming
We red team LLMs, GenAI apps, agentic workflows, and shadow AI deployments using adversarial testing methods that expose control failures before attackers can turn them into business risk.
AI Security Assessment
Adversarial security testing for LLMs, GenAI applications, agentic systems, and shadow AI. Aligned to OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, NIST AI RMF, and MITRE ATLAS.
- OWASP LLM Top 10 + MITRE ATLAS mapping
- Guardrail hardening recommendations
- Shadow AI inventory & governance plan
Web Application Security
Enterprise web application penetration testing covering OWASP Top 10, API security, business logic abuse, and authentication flaws with manual exploitation and proof-of-concept evidence.
- Proof-driven findings with PoC evidence
- Risk-rated remediation roadmap
- False-positive reduced reporting
Mobile Application Security
Android and iOS application penetration testing covering OWASP MASVS, insecure storage, runtime tampering, API trust boundaries, and platform hardening.
- OWASP MASVS-aligned findings
- Store-readiness hardening plan
- Reproducible PoCs per finding
Cloud Security
Cloud security assessment across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes covering IAM privilege paths, workload hardening, network exposure, and CIS benchmark alignment.
- Identity attack-path maps
- CSPM-aligned hardening plan
- Audit-ready control evidence
Firewall & Infrastructure Security
Network perimeter and infrastructure penetration testing covering firewall rule review, segmentation validation, Active Directory attack paths, and detection coverage.
- Segmentation & firewall hardening plan
- AD attack-path & privilege gap analysis
- Detection coverage recommendations
IoT / OT Security
IoT and OT penetration testing covering firmware analysis, hardware interfaces, industrial protocols, and IEC 62443 alignment with operations-safe methodology. RED & CRA product readiness.
- IEC 62443 / ISO 21434 evidence
- RED & CRA product readiness validation
- Operations-safe, non-disruptive testing
Assessment Pipeline
From recon to executive report
A repeatable pipeline that combines manual expertise, AI-assisted discovery, and threat intelligence correlation — so every finding is reproducible and business-relevant.
Scoping & Recon
Define targets, depth, timing, safety constraints, and escalation paths before testing begins.
AI-Assisted Discovery
Accelerate recon, highlight likely abuse paths, and correlate signals across binaries, apps, telemetry, and docs.
Firmware & Hardware Analysis
Review extracted filesystems, boot logic, hardcoded material, binary protections, and hardware interfaces.
Threat Intelligence Correlation
Map issues to exploitability, known attacker patterns, supply-chain exposure, and business-specific blast radius.
Executive Security Reporting
Risk-rated remediation guidance, proof-of-concept evidence, and sections tailored for both technical and leadership teams.
AI-assisted vulnerability discovery
Active mapping and validation
Firmware analysis workflow
Deep binary introspection
Threat intelligence automation
Continuous context gathering
Security assessment pipeline
Enterprise-ready delivery
Attack surface visualisation
Executive-level clarity
Regulatory evidence mapping
CRA, RED, IEC 62443, ISO 21434
Engagement Workflow
How We Work With You
A predictable delivery model with defined checkpoints, so your teams know exactly what happens and when.
Scoping & Rules of Engagement
Targets, depth, timing windows, safety constraints, and escalation contacts agreed before testing begins.
Threat Modelling
Trust boundaries, attacker goals, and abuse cases mapped so effort follows real business risk.
Execution & Validation
Manual, tool-assisted, and AI-accelerated testing with every finding reproduced and evidenced.
Reporting & Risk Rating
Technical detail for engineers and a prioritised risk narrative for leadership, in one report set.
Remediation Support
Direct access to the testing engineers while your teams design and implement fixes.
Verification Retest
Once your team patches the findings, we re-test every fix to confirm the vulnerability is genuinely closed.
Testing Packages
BlockSecBrain Security Testing Models
Flexible engagement models for organisations that need focused testing, hybrid validation, or deeper adversarial assessment across complex environments.
ENTERPRISE GRADE
Standard Security Testing
Full-cycle security testing with transparent pricing after a scope walkthrough. Suitable for well-defined applications and enterprise-grade systems.
- Full test planning, execution, and reporting
- Covers OWASP Top 10 and SANS 25
- Custom business-logic flaw testing
- Transparent pricing after scope walkthrough
- Ideal for enterprise-grade systems
BEST VALUE
Hybrid Security Testing
Risk-free assessment. Start with free or low-cost scans. Pay only for verified vulnerabilities. No findings means you cover only minimal hourly effort.
- Start free and pay only for findings
- Web, mobile, API, and infrastructure testing
- Source code and wildcard domain coverage
- Scalable to any budget or team size
- Post-remediation retest at minimal cost
ADVERSARY SIMULATION
Offensive Security Testing
Combines external attacker simulation with insider insights. Flexible post-assessment billing for mature applications needing deeper privilege and business-logic validation.
- External attacker simulation
- Internal logic validation
- Deep privilege escalation testing
- Flexible post-assessment billing
- Ideal for mature, complex applications
Hybrid Model · Pay-Per-Finding Estimator
Adjust the expected finding counts to estimate your Hybrid engagement cost. You only pay for verified, manually-confirmed vulnerabilities.
Estimated cost
$10,800 USD · illustrative
Final pricing is confirmed after a scope walkthrough. No findings = you cover only the minimal effort floor.
Get a precise quoteWhy BlockSecBrain
Unbiased by design — not just a marketing claim
Most “security” providers sell hardware, take vendor commissions, or chase sales quotas. Here's exactly how we differ from typical vendors and resellers.
| Capability | BlockSecBrain independent | Typical vendor product-tied | Reseller commission-led |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sells hardware or software products | Never | Often | Always |
| Takes vendor referral fees / commissions | Never | Sometimes | Always |
| Recommendations tied to a sales quota | Never | Often | Always |
| Every engagement led by senior researchers | Always | Sometimes | Rarely |
| Manual proof-of-concept for every finding | 100% | Mixed | Rarely |
| Firmware / hardware / IoT-OT depth | Full | Limited | None |
| AI / LLM red-teaming capability | Full | Emerging | None |
| Critical-vulnerability SLA | < 24h | 3–7 days | Varies |
| Post-remediation retest | Minimal charge | Paid add-on | None |
| Multi-framework compliance mapping (one engagement) | Yes | Sometimes | No |
| Pay-per-finding (Hybrid) model | Yes | No | No |
| Transparent pricing after scope walkthrough | Yes | Sometimes | Rarely |
Comparisons are illustrative of common industry patterns, not specific named vendors.
Questions
Frequently asked
Get In Touch
Ready to find your real attack surface?
Tell us what you're building. We'll tell you how we'd break it — and how to stop us.
Live OSINT Console
Attack-surface discovery, with real data
Enter a domain, IP, ASN, or email. The console detects the type and fires every passive intelligence module at once — DNS records, WHOIS, Shodan ports, certificate transparency, subdomains, email security, and tech stack fingerprinting.
Open OSINT ConsoleSelf-Assessment
Security Maturity Self-Assessment
Answer 6 questions across 6 security domains to get an instant maturity score, per-domain breakdown, and tailored service recommendations.
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Reference
Security Glossary
A quick reference for the security terms, frameworks, and attack patterns we use across our engagements. Search or filter by domain.
29 terms
Agentic Workflow
AIAn LLM-powered system that takes actions via tool-use (function calling) — a new class of attack surface for prompt injection.
BOLA
Web/APIBroken Object Level Authorization — an API flaw where an attacker can access objects they shouldn't by manipulating IDs. Also called IDOR.
Canary Token
GeneralA covert marker embedded in data or systems that alerts when triggered, detecting exfiltration or intrusion.
CISA KEV
GeneralCybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — flaws actively exploited in the wild.
CRA
ComplianceCyber Resilience Act — EU regulation mandating security-by-design, vulnerability reporting, and lifecycle obligations for products with digital elements (IoT/OT).
CVE
GeneralCommon Vulnerabilities and Exposures — a standardized identifier for publicly disclosed security flaws.
CVSS
GeneralCommon Vulnerability Scoring System — a standardized 0–10 severity score for security vulnerabilities.
Fault Injection
FirmwareA hardware attack technique (voltage/clock glitching) that induces errors to bypass security checks or extract secrets.
HSM
FirmwareHardware Security Module — a tamper-resistant physical device for key management and cryptographic operations.
IEC 62443
ComplianceThe international standard for industrial automation and control systems (IACS) security.
IEC 81001
ComplianceHealth software security standard supporting FDA premarket cybersecurity documentation for medical devices.
ISO 21434
ComplianceThe automotive cybersecurity engineering standard covering the full vehicle lifecycle.
JTAG
FirmwareA hardware debug interface (IEEE 1149.1) used for testing and debugging embedded devices — a common physical attack surface.
JWT
Web/APIJSON Web Token — a compact, signed token for stateless authentication. Vulnerable to algorithm-confusion attacks if misconfigured.
Mass Assignment
Web/APIA vulnerability where an API blindly accepts user-supplied object fields, allowing privilege escalation via hidden properties.
MITRE ATT&CK
GeneralA globally-accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations.
Modbus
IoT/OTA legacy unauthenticated protocol widely used in industrial control systems for PLC communication.
NIST CSF
ComplianceThe NIST Cybersecurity Framework (2.0) — Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover functions.
OWASP Top 10
Web/APIThe Open Worldwide Application Security Project's list of the ten most critical web application security risks.
Prompt Injection
AIAn attack where malicious input manipulates an LLM into ignoring its instructions or leaking protected data.
RAG Poisoning
AIInjecting malicious content into a retrieval-augmented generation knowledge base to influence LLM outputs.
RED
ComplianceRadio Equipment Directive — EU regulation requiring security features, SBOM, and vulnerability disclosure for wireless/connected devices.
SBOM
GeneralSoftware Bill of Materials — a formal record of components and dependencies in a software product, required by RED/CRA and US Executive Order 14028.
Secure Boot
FirmwareA boot-chain verification mechanism that ensures only cryptographically signed firmware runs on a device.
Shadow AI
AIUnsanctioned, unmonitored AI tools/endpoints used inside an organisation — a growing data-exfiltration surface.
Side Channel
FirmwareAn attack that extracts secrets from a device's physical characteristics (power, timing, EM emissions) rather than algorithmic flaws.
SSRF
CloudServer-Side Request Forgery — tricking a server into making requests to unintended destinations, e.g. cloud metadata endpoints.
TARA
ComplianceThreat Analysis and Risk Assessment — the ISO 21434 methodology for evaluating automotive cybersecurity risk.
Zone & Conduit
IoT/OTThe IEC 62443 network-segmentation model: zones group assets by security level; conduits control traffic between them.
Tooling & Methodology
Our security toolchain
We combine industry-standard tooling with custom AI-assisted pipelines. Vendor-neutral by design — we pick the right tool for each attack surface, not the one with the best reseller margin.
Web & API
3 toolsBurp Suite Pro
Web/API interception, fuzzing, active scanning
OWASP ZAP
Automated web app vulnerability scanning
Nuclei
Template-based vulnerability detection
Firmware & Hardware
4 toolsGhidra
Reverse engineering & binary analysis
IDA Pro
Disassembly & decompilation
Binwalk
Firmware extraction & analysis
JTAGulator
Hardware debug interface discovery
Mobile
2 toolsFrida
Dynamic instrumentation of mobile apps
MobSF
Mobile security framework scanning
IoT / OT
3 toolsModbusPal
Modbus protocol simulation & testing
Wireshark
Protocol analysis across OT/IoT traffic
Pacemaker
ICS protocol fuzzing
Cloud
3 toolsScoutSuite
Multi-cloud posture auditing
Pacu
AWS exploitation framework
CloudFox
Cloud attack-path discovery
AI / LLM
3 toolsGarak
LLM vulnerability probing
Promptfoo
LLM red-team & eval automation
PyRIT
Python Risk Identification Toolkit for generative AI
General
4 toolsMetasploit Pro
Exploitation & validation framework
BloodHound
Identity attack-path mapping
Nmap
Network discovery & security auditing
Custom tooling
In-house scripts & AI-assisted discovery pipelines
Tool-agnostic methodology
Our assessments never rely on a single scanner's output. Every finding is manually validated, reproduced, and evidenced — tools accelerate, but senior researchers decide. We also build custom tooling and AI-assisted discovery pipelines where off-the-shelf tools fall short.