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Automotive & embedded assessment
Security assessment for infotainment, telematics, IoT devices and embedded platforms, including Linux and QNX environments.
Expose attack paths across the complete system
Rootworks Cyber Security
Automotive and embedded systems security
Specialist security assessment and assurance for connected vehicles, embedded platforms, mobile applications and the software that supports them.
20+
years in offensive and defensive security
Lifecycle
assurance from early design to deployed products
Specialist
automotive, IoT and embedded platform knowledge
Security without guesswork
Find the risk that matters.
Fix it before it becomes expensive.
Connected products bring together applications, operating systems, cloud services and specialist hardware. Rootworks examines the whole system, turning technical findings into practical decisions for engineering and security teams.
How we workServices
Security work built around your product
Focused engagements that give technical teams a clear view of exposure, priority and next action.
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Mobile application security
Assessment and reverse engineering for mobile applications that control, configure or communicate with connected products.
Understand application and API exposure
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Vulnerability management
Track vulnerabilities across software components and deployed products, then prioritise remediation using real product context.
Focus engineering time on credible risk
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Security architecture & consulting
Engage specialist security knowledge early in design and development, before weaknesses become costly production problems.
Build defensible products from the outset
Engagement approach
From system context to engineering action
Every engagement is scoped around the product, its environment and the decisions your team needs to make.
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Define
Map the product, interfaces, threat model and assurance goals.
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Examine
Assess the implementation using targeted offensive and analytical techniques.
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Prioritise
Separate credible product risk from noise and theoretical exposure.
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Improve
Give engineering teams clear evidence and practical remediation direction.
Technical expertise
Comfortable below the application layer
Rootworks works across the boundaries between hardware, operating systems, applications and connected services, where product security issues are often hardest to see.
Talk to a specialistPlatforms
- Embedded Linux
- QNX
- Android & mobile
- IoT devices
Product areas
- Infotainment
- Telematics
- Connected products
- Supporting software
Techniques
- Penetration testing
- Reverse engineering
- Architecture review
- Threat analysis
Outcomes
- Evidence-led findings
- Risk prioritisation
- Remediation advice
- Lifecycle monitoring
Rootworks product
Vehicle intelligence for difficult imagery
AutoRecon uses AI-powered visual analysis to identify vehicles from real-world images and video, including compressed, low-light, partial exterior and interior views.
- Exterior and interior visual recognition
- Partial and low-quality image analysis
- Investigation and media workflows
Start a conversation
Bring us the product.
We’ll help clarify the risk.
Tell us what you are building, assessing or trying to understand. We will respond with a practical next step.