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.

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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.

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Independent Security Validation

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

Assessment PipelineScope → Test → Validate → Report

100+
Enterprise Assessments: 0%
Vendor Bias / Sales Agenda: < 24h
Critical Vulnerability SLA: 100%
Manual Proof-of-Concept

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.

NEW 2026 SERVICE

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.

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Prompt injection & jailbreak testing

Agentic workflow abuse-path mapping

Tool-use & function-calling guardrail review

Training-data & RAG poisoning analysis

Shadow AI & unsanctioned model discovery

Model supply-chain & weight integrity review

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LLM RED TEAMING · AGENTIC SYSTEMS

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

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OWASP TOP 10 · BUSINESS LOGIC

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

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ANDROID · iOS · MASVS

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

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AWS · AZURE · GCP · K8S

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

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SEGMENTATION · AD · DETECTION

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

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FIRMWARE · IEC 62443 · RED & CRA

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

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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.

01
Scoping & Recon
Define targets, depth, timing, safety constraints, and escalation paths before testing begins.
02
AI-Assisted Discovery
Accelerate recon, highlight likely abuse paths, and correlate signals across binaries, apps, telemetry, and docs.
03
Firmware & Hardware Analysis
Review extracted filesystems, boot logic, hardcoded material, binary protections, and hardware interfaces.
04
Threat Intelligence Correlation
Map issues to exploitability, known attacker patterns, supply-chain exposure, and business-specific blast radius.
05
Executive Security Reporting
Risk-rated remediation guidance, proof-of-concept evidence, and sections tailored for both technical and leadership teams.

Enterprise Security Pipeline · Capability coverage

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

A free retest of remediated findings confirms the fix holds and closes the engagement.

Testing Packages

BlockSecBrain Security Testing Models

Flexible engagement models for organisations that need focused testing, hybrid validation, or deeper adversarial assessment across complex environments.

Standard Security Testing

ENTERPRISE GRADE

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

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Hybrid Security Testing

BEST VALUE

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
Free verification retest included

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Offensive Security Testing

ADVERSARY SIMULATION

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

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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.

Critical· $1,800/finding1

High· $1,400/finding3

Medium· $800/finding5

Low· $200/finding4

Estimated cost

$15,600USD · illustrative

Critical × 1$1,800

High × 3$5,400

Medium × 5$4,000

Low × 4$1,200

Minimal hourly effort floor$

Final pricing is confirmed after a scope walkthrough. No findings = you cover only the minimal effort floor.

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Self-Assessment

Security Maturity Self-Assessment

Answer 12 questions across 6 security domains to get an instant maturity score, per-domain breakdown, and tailored service recommendations.

Question 1 of 120/12 answered

🔧 FIRMWARE

How do you handle firmware signing & secure boot?

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 — real DNS records, WHOIS, Shodan ports, certificate transparency, subdomains, email security, tech stack, and more.

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Why 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	BlockSecBrainindependent	Typical vendorproduct-tied	Resellercommission-led
Independence
Sells hardware or software products		Often	Always
Takes vendor referral fees / commissions		Sometimes	Always
Recommendations tied to a sales quota		Often	Always
Expertise
Every engagement led by senior researchers		Sometimes
Manual proof-of-concept for every finding	100%	Mixed	Rarely
Firmware / hardware / IoT-OT depth		Limited
AI / LLM red-teaming capability		Emerging
Delivery
Critical-vulnerability SLA	< 24h	3–7 days	Varies
Free verification retest window	60 days	Paid add-on
Multi-framework compliance mapping (one engagement)		Sometimes
Value
Pay-per-finding (Hybrid) model
Transparent pricing after scope walkthrough		Sometimes	Rarely

Comparisons are illustrative of common industry patterns, not specific named vendors.

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

An LLM-powered system that takes actions via tool-use (function calling) — a new class of attack surface for prompt injection.

BOLA

Web/API

Broken Object Level Authorization — an API flaw where an attacker can access objects they shouldn't by manipulating IDs. Also called IDOR.

Canary Token

General

A covert marker embedded in data or systems that alerts when triggered, detecting exfiltration or intrusion.

CISA KEV

General

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — flaws actively exploited in the wild.

CRA

Compliance

Cyber Resilience Act — EU regulation mandating security-by-design, vulnerability reporting, and lifecycle obligations for products with digital elements (IoT/OT).

CVE

General

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures — a standardized identifier for publicly disclosed security flaws.

CVSS

General

Common Vulnerability Scoring System — a standardized 0-10 severity score for security vulnerabilities.

Fault Injection

Firmware

A hardware attack technique (voltage/clock glitching) that induces errors to bypass security checks or extract secrets.

HSM

Firmware

Hardware Security Module — a tamper-resistant physical device for key management and cryptographic operations.

IEC 62443

Compliance

The international standard for industrial automation and control systems (IACS) security.

IEC 81001

Compliance

Health software security standard supporting FDA premarket cybersecurity documentation for medical devices.

ISO 21434

Compliance

The automotive cybersecurity engineering standard covering the full vehicle lifecycle.

JTAG

Firmware

A hardware debug interface (IEEE 1149.1) used for testing and debugging embedded devices — a common physical attack surface.

JWT

Web/API

JSON Web Token — a compact, signed token for stateless authentication. Vulnerable to algorithm-confusion attacks if misconfigured.

Mass Assignment

Web/API

A vulnerability where an API blindly accepts user-supplied object fields, allowing privilege escalation via hidden properties.

MITRE ATT&CK

General

A globally-accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations.

Modbus

IoT/OT

A legacy unauthenticated protocol widely used in industrial control systems for PLC communication.

NIST CSF

Compliance

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (2.0) — Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover functions.

OWASP Top 10

Web/API

The Open Worldwide Application Security Project's list of the ten most critical web application security risks.

Prompt Injection

An attack where malicious input manipulates an LLM into ignoring its instructions or leaking protected data.

RAG Poisoning

Injecting malicious content into a retrieval-augmented generation knowledge base to influence LLM outputs.

RED

Compliance

Radio Equipment Directive — EU regulation requiring security features, SBOM, and vulnerability disclosure for wireless/connected devices.

SBOM

General

Software 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

Firmware

A boot-chain verification mechanism that ensures only cryptographically signed firmware runs on a device.

Shadow AI

Unsanctioned, unmonitored AI tools/endpoints used inside an organisation — a growing data-exfiltration surface.

Side Channel

Firmware

An attack that extracts secrets from a device's physical characteristics (power, timing, EM emissions) rather than algorithmic flaws.

SSRF

Cloud

Server-Side Request Forgery — tricking a server into making requests to unintended destinations, e.g. cloud metadata endpoints.

TARA

Compliance

Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment — the ISO 21434 methodology for evaluating automotive cybersecurity risk.

Zone & Conduit

IoT/OT

The 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 tools

Burp Suite Pro

Web/API interception, fuzzing, active scanning

OWASP ZAP

Automated web app vulnerability scanning

Nuclei

Template-based vulnerability detection

Firmware & Hardware

4 tools

Ghidra

Reverse engineering & binary analysis

IDA Pro

Disassembly & decompilation

Binwalk

Firmware extraction & analysis

JTAGulator

Hardware debug interface discovery

Mobile

2 tools

Frida

Dynamic instrumentation of mobile apps

MobSF

Mobile security framework scanning

IoT / OT

3 tools

ModbusPal

Modbus protocol simulation & testing

Wireshark

Protocol analysis across OT/IoT traffic

Pacemaker

ICS protocol fuzzing

Cloud

3 tools

ScoutSuite

Multi-cloud posture auditing

Pacu

AWS exploitation framework

CloudFox

Cloud attack-path discovery

AI / LLM

3 tools

Garak

LLM vulnerability probing

Promptfoo

LLM red-team & eval automation

PyRIT

Python Risk Identification Toolkit for generative AI

General

4 tools

Metasploit 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.

Questions

Frequently asked

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Response Time

Within 24 hours

Confidentiality

NDA and strict OPSEC

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We break things professionally —before attackers break your business.

Built for Regulated and Safety-Critical Industries

Automotive OEMs & Tier-1

Industrial Automation

IoT Manufacturers

Medical Devices

Cloud & SaaS

Enterprise Security Teams

Real-World Security Testing With a Futuristic Enterprise Edge

AI Security Assessment & LLM Red Teaming

AI Security Assessment

Web Application Security

Mobile Application Security

Cloud Security

Firewall & Infrastructure Security

IoT / OT Security

From recon to executive report

Scoping & Recon

AI-Assisted Discovery

Firmware & Hardware Analysis

Threat Intelligence Correlation

Executive Security Reporting

Enterprise Security Pipeline · Capability coverage

How We Work With You

Scoping & Rules of Engagement

Threat Modelling

Execution & Validation

Reporting & Risk Rating

Remediation Support

Verification Retest

BlockSecBrain Security Testing Models

Standard Security Testing

Hybrid Security Testing

Offensive Security Testing

Hybrid Model · Pay-Per-Finding Estimator

Estimated cost

Security Maturity Self-Assessment

How do you handle firmware signing & secure boot?

Attack-surface discovery, with real data

Unbiased by design — not just a marketing claim

Security Glossary

Agentic Workflow

BOLA

Canary Token

CISA KEV

CRA

CVE

CVSS

Fault Injection

HSM

IEC 62443

IEC 81001

ISO 21434

JTAG

JWT

Mass Assignment

MITRE ATT&CK

Modbus

NIST CSF

OWASP Top 10

Prompt Injection

RAG Poisoning

RED

SBOM

Secure Boot

Shadow AI

Side Channel

SSRF

TARA

Zone & Conduit

Our security toolchain

Web & API

Firmware & Hardware

Mobile

IoT / OT

Cloud

AI / LLM

General

Tool-agnostic methodology

Frequently asked

We break things professionally —
before attackers break your business.