Embedded, IoT, and smart products
Custom electronics, appliances, cameras, access-control products, edge devices, and other standalone or network-connected products.
Cyber and physical security
Investigate attack paths before products and systems reach the field.
Holmdel Labs evaluates products, devices, and cyber-physical systems—from embedded electronics and instruments to communications, automation, industrial equipment, and integrated product ecosystems—across hardware, firmware, software, connected services, and physical access.
- Written client authorization
- System-specific threat models
- Evidence-backed findings
Representative systems we can evaluate
Security follows the interfaces, not the industry label.
We can scope products, devices, and integrated systems across sectors and development stages. Each assessment follows how the system is built, connected, accessed, updated, operated, and recovered.
Industrial, building, and infrastructure systems
Controllers, gateways, remote-monitoring equipment, manufacturing and building systems, grid-edge equipment, and water or utility technology.
Sensors, instruments, and test equipment
Process and environmental sensors, data loggers, imaging systems, scientific and laboratory instruments, and test-and-measurement equipment.
Communications, networking, and edge systems
Radios, telemetry devices, wired and wireless gateways, protocol converters, edge computers, and network appliances.
Robotics, automation, and mobile platforms
Robotic subsystems, motion controllers, autonomous equipment, uncrewed platforms, and connected electromechanical systems.
Integrated products and device ecosystems
Evaluation units, pre-production hardware, companion applications, APIs, management services, update infrastructure, and multi-device deployments.
Fit is defined during intake
These examples describe potential scope, not automatic acceptance or qualification. We qualify each engagement against the test article, interfaces, hazards, energy levels, maturity, authorization, data-handling requirements, and applicable standards. Live-production, high-energy, destructive, regulated, or accredited-certification work is not implied and may require additional controls, partners, or a separate scope.
Assessment tracks
One system. Multiple attack paths.
Cyber weaknesses and physical access paths often converge. Scope one or both tracks around the representative system, its intended environment, and the decisions your team needs to make before deployment.
01Digital and electronic
Cybersecurity testing
Risk-prioritized adversarial testing of the interfaces and connected systems that can affect system control, availability, data integrity, and recovery.
Scope can include
- Hardware interfaces, exposed services, and trust boundaries
- Firmware and software analysis
- Wired, wireless, and device-management protocols
- Authentication, authorization, update, and recovery mechanisms
- Companion applications, APIs, management services, and essential connected components within the agreed system boundary
A useful starting point
Start with a high-level description of the product or system, architecture, interfaces, development stage, connected components, and security questions. Representative hardware and technical baselines are provided only after intake and handling requirements are agreed.
02Physical and embedded
Physical security and tamper testing
Hands-on evaluation of how physical access can expose digital weaknesses, disrupt operation, or defeat a device’s detection and recovery controls.
Scope can include
- Enclosures, access controls, connectors, and maintenance paths
- Service and debug interfaces exposed through physical access
- Tamper detection, alarm behavior, and recovery response
- Physical attack paths into firmware, protocols, and software
- Observed effects on control, availability, integrity, and detection
A useful starting point
Start with a high-level description of the device, enclosure, placement, access assumptions, and physical actions of concern. Hardware, interface details, and reset procedures are provided only after intake and handling requirements are agreed.
How an assessment works
From credible attack path to engineering action.
The engagement follows the test article, supporting services, and operating context—not a generic checklist. Coverage and limitations remain visible from planning through final reporting.
- 01 / Model
Define what matters.
Map critical assets, trust boundaries, access assumptions, credible attack paths, and the consequences the assessment must examine.
- 02 / Test
Exercise the agreed paths.
Establish a baseline, perform authorized active testing, and reproduce findings while preserving the test configuration and supporting evidence.
- 03 / Act
Prioritize and reassess.
Rank findings by risk and remediation effort, explain the engineering tradeoffs, and reassess selected corrections when included in scope.
What you receive
Defined boundary
A threat model tailored to the test article, supporting systems, and operating environment, with an agreed boundary, assumptions, and test plan.
Reproducible evidence
Findings linked to affected components, attack prerequisites, observed behavior, and supporting technical evidence.
Engineering priorities
Risk and remediation-effort rankings with practical guidance, dependencies, and operational consequences made explicit.
Assessed next steps
Focused reassessment of selected corrections when scoped, with remaining exposure, limitations, and untested areas documented.
Cross-boundary experience
Security work that crosses the software–hardware boundary.
Holmdel’s approach combines hands-on software, hardware, and embedded-systems development with industrial cybersecurity practice. In prior roles, our technical lead built more than a decade of cybersecurity experience, including more than eight years of operational-technology risk assessment and penetration testing for utilities, large enterprises, and multinational oil-and-gas companies.
That background includes physical-security assessment and work in refineries and other high-risk industrial environments. It matters when a weakness begins at an enclosure or maintenance interface, crosses firmware and communications, and ends as an operational consequence.
Every assessment is bounded by the representative system, approved methods, available evidence, and agreed test conditions. Findings describe what was evaluated, what was observed, and what remains outside the result.