It's not fair.

When attacking an embedded system, it takes only one vulnerability to lead to an exploit.

This means, when tasked with securing an embedded system, the defender must think through and be prepared to protect against every possible vulnerability. Overlook just one opening and the attacker may find it, take control, steal your secrets, and create an exploit for others to use anytime, anywhere.

Worse yet, that same attacker may use an initial compromised device to pivot from one exploited subsystem to another, causing further damage to your network, mission, and reputation.

In this blog post, we present the Top 10 properties of highly-secure embedded systems – insight that is based upon decades of experience engineering security solutions across a number of high-value military and commercial platforms.

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