Product Security Testing

Product Security Testing, in the context of penetration testing, focuses on simulating real-world attacks against your products to identify vulnerabilities that could be exploited in production. Rather than relying solely on compliance-driven scans or surface-level checks, this approach applies deep, adversarial testing tailored to your application’s architecture and threat landscape. The goal is to uncover critical weaknesses early, reduce risk exposure, and give engineering teams actionable insight, ultimately strengthening product resilience before it reaches your customers.

River Security combines a purpose-built hardware testing lab with a proven, publicly documented penetration testing methodology to deliver comprehensive product security testing across all relevant layers. From hardware components and mobile apps to web applications and network protocols, we ensure that your product is rigorously vetted and ready for the security demands of production deployment.

What to Include in Product Security Testing

What is included in a Product Security Test , often referred to as "the scope", greatly depends on the product’s features and the customer’s specific security objectives. Each test is tailored to the technology stack, threat landscape, and operational context of the product, ensuring relevant and high-impact coverage.

During our planning with the customer and what we discover as penetration testers, we might find the testing to include a variety of elements, all which our team can assess. These layers are on hardware, infrastructure, software and network, as the picture below shows:

Digging deeper into the layers, we see evidence of deeper layers, which our team can help assess. Read more about them in the grouping below.

Hardware Testing Mobile Security Testing Radio and WIFI Network Protocols & Interconnectivity Infrastructure and Cloud Embeded Web Servers and More Firmware and Reverse Engineering

Hardware Testing

Our hardware testing focuses on uncovering weaknesses across critical physical components. This includes chips and system-on-chips (SoC), memory such as DRAM and SRAM, storage types like ROM, EEPROM, Flash, and eMMC, as well as internal buses and SPI interfaces. Each of these layers exposes unique attack surfaces, and our specialized testing ensures they are thoroughly evaluated for security before your product reaches the field.

Mobile Security Testing

Radio and WIFI

Wireless communication is a growing attack surface in modern products. Technologies like Bluetooth, Zigbee, LoRa, and sub-GHz protocols often suffer from weak encryption or flawed authentication, leaving them open to sniffing, replay attacks, fuzzing, or over-the-air exploitation. Wi-Fi adds further risk through insecure onboarding, poor network segmentation, and vulnerabilities which have enabled remote code execution even across air-gapped environments. At River Security, we assess these interfaces, uncovering real-world threats that traditional network testing often overlook.

Network Protocols & Interconnectivity

How a product communicates, internally and externally, is a critical factor in its security. Protocols like HTTP, MQTT, Modbus, CoAP, and even custom TCP/UDP implementations can expose products to risks such as unauthorized access, data leakage, and machine-in-the-middle attacks. Many embedded and IoT systems also rely on outdated or proprietary protocols with weak or no encryption. At River Security, we test these communication paths to uncover flaws in trust boundaries and interconnectivity that attackers could exploit to pivot, escalate privileges, or exfiltrate data across systems.

Infrastructure and Cloud

Cloud infrastructure and IoT cloud platforms are integral to modern product security testing, as they handle device management, data processing, and user interactions. Vulnerabilities in APIs, authentication mechanisms, cloud storage, or misconfigured identity roles can expose sensitive data or allow attackers to gain remote control over devices. These weaknesses can also enable lateral movement or pivoting between different customers’ environments!

Effective testing must assess both edge-to-cloud communication and backend infrastructure to prevent cross-customer compromise and ensure end-to-end product security.

Embeded Web Servers and More

Embedded web servers and HTTP-based interfaces are high-value targets in product security testing because they often serve as the primary interface for configuring, monitoring, or controlling a device. These components are frequently used in IoT, industrial control systems, and consumer electronics, yet they are notoriously prone to security flaws due to limited resources, legacy codebases, or poor development practices.

Firmware and Reverse Engineering

Firmware and reverse engineering play a central role in product security testing because firmware is often the heart of the device, containing its logic, trust anchors, communication protocols, and access control mechanisms. Analyzing firmware allows testers to understand the internal workings of a product, uncover hidden functions, and identify systemic vulnerabilities that are otherwise invisible from the outside.

The Full Stack Peneration Tester

Product Security Testing, sometimes referred to as Device or Hardware Security Testing, is a specialized area within penetration testing. It requires a skilled team to assess a broad range of technologies, attack surfaces, and potential threat scenarios, ensuring that products are evaluated against both known vulnerabilities and complex, real-world attack paths across hardware and software layers.

Instead of relying on a single individual to conduct penetration testing, River Security’s methodology is built around structured collaboration. Our approach enables fine-grained prioritization and efficient distribution of tasks across a skilled team, ensuring deeper coverage, faster execution, and a more thorough assessment of complex products.

Our goal is clear and focused: to ensure that our customers' security posture aligns with the level users expect and assume. By identifying and addressing vulnerabilities early, we help prevent issues from being exploited in the wild- protecting both the product and the trust placed in it.

River Security Hardware Testing Lab

To uncover the kinds of vulnerabilities that matter at the hardware level, specialized tools and a controlled environment are essential. Our dedicated hardware lab enables deep technical analysis using techniques like fault injection, bus monitoring, and chip-level interrogation. This setup allows us to go far beyond surface checks, identifying weaknesses in components such as memory, storage, and internal communication pathways. This means greater assurance that your product has been rigorously tested under real-world attack conditions, before it ever reaches your customers.

At River Security, our dedicated lab is equipped to safely and thoroughly explore the full attack surface of the products we test. With specialized tools and controlled conditions, we can perform in-depth hardware and embedded security analysis while ensuring both the product and our equipment remain protected throughout the process.

Testimonials

Don't let us do the talking, but instead the customers. Take a look at your testimonials page and you will find many customer cases and testimonials. A carousel of our latest testimonals can be seen below.

Testimonials

Zaptec

“Partnering with River Security has given us real-time visibility and proactive protection for our expanding infrastructure. Their independent guidance and hands-on approach help us make informed decisions, ensuring our technology remains secure as we grow. It’s inspiring to work with a Norwegian tech company that truly understands our ambitions.” Henning Berland

Oslo Taxi AS

“Oslo Taxi is a technology company. We work with AI, large data sets, and have strict privacy requirements. That means we also need a security strategy that gives us full control. River Security doesn’t just hand over a report and walk away—they stay involved. When vulnerabilities are found, we fix them together. That’s the kind…

Travel Retail Norway

“Following the cyberattack we experienced in early 2024, we wanted to explore new ways to increase and strengthen our cybersecurity measures. We already employ a range of advanced solutions, but by choosing Active Focus from River Security, we have gained something new: The ability to efficiently map our entire externally exposed digital attack surface and…

Wilhelmsen

“Over the past four years, Active Focus has become an indispensable part of our security operations. The service provides continuous, real-time visibility into our attack surface across multiple business units, enabling us to stay ahead of potential threats. Having a structured and categorized overview isn’t just convenient—it’s critical. A key benefit is how Active Focus keeps our…

Lisa Solutions

“At Lisa Solutions, ensuring the security of our software and protecting our customers’ data are top priorities. We are pleased to share that River Security recently conducted a penetration test, which confirmed the strength and resilience of our systems. This outcome reflects our commitment to maintaining the highest security standards. Regular security assessments are a…

Orbyt

«We are very pleased with our decision to work with River Security. Their testers handled a scope that included both authenticated and unauthenticated attack vectors targeting several services, delivering high-quality recommendations within the agreed timeline. Collaborating with them was a pleasant experience, both digitally and in person. We highly recommend River Security for their skilled expertise and…

Skagerak Energi

We had the pleasure of hosting a Secure Coding Session for our developers, led by Chief Hacking Officer Chris Dale from River Security AS. The workshop from River Security was tailored to our development team and provided valuable insights into best practices for writing robust and secure code. Chris guided us in an engaging and educational way through advanced techniques for early identification of vulnerabilities and how security must be integrated into the development process from the ground up.

NorgesGruppen

We have come to know River Security quite well the last few years, as they have conducted several penetration tests for us. Through each and every contact we have had with them, we have experienced nothing but excellence at all stages. As a large company we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to security. Having highly competent partners like River Security provides us with immense value. Their validations and recommendations are very comprehendible and contributes to our ability to stay one step ahead of the cyber criminals. River Security has been consistent, flexible and proved their competence in every single delivery. We want to give River Security our best recommendations!

Wikborg Rein

“River Security’s Active Focus service provides valuable real-time insights into our digital attack surface. Their expert team and continuous, agile penetration testing allow us to identify and fix vulnerabilities as soon as they arise and before they get exploited by threat actors. Our partnership with River Security helps us stay one step ahead of evolving…

COOP

“We engaged River Security to conduct a penetration test on our IDP solution. Their team was highly professional and easy to work with. They took the time to understand our needs, ensuring that their testing aligned with our expectations. The results were delivered in a comprehensive, well-organized report clearly outlining their findings and providing actionable recommendations.”…

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