Real Results from Security Leaders
See how connected device manufacturers across industries are using ArgusEye to secure their products and protect their customers.
Proactive Security for Next-Gen Industrial IoT Devices
The Challenge
A leading manufacturer of next-generation industrial robots faced the critical challenge of integrating robust cybersecurity without slowing product launches. Their existing process relied on manual threat modeling, which became a major bottleneck. Engineering teams were overwhelmed reviewing complex schematics, design documents, and software architecture. This led to missed vulnerabilities, costly reworks, and delayed product releases. They needed a proactive, shift-left security approach that would maintain quality while accelerating time-to-market.
The Solution
The manufacturer integrated ArgusEye's AI-driven threat modeling platform (Argus) as a core component of their product development lifecycle. Argus automatically analyzes a vast repository of engineering artifacts, leveraging an LLM-powered analysis engine to parse schematics, design specifications, and software components. The platform identifies potential security vulnerabilities and generates comprehensive threat models. Argus's AI-powered automated threat identification provides actionable, design-derived insights, enabling engineering teams to identify and remediate flaws during initial design and development phases. The platform includes integrated risk scoring and prioritization to focus on critical vulnerabilities.
The Results
25% acceleration in product launches
By identifying and addressing security issues during design, the manufacturer significantly reduced time-to-market while maintaining security standards.
Significant reduction in design-level vulnerabilities
Argus pinpointed critical flaws missed by manual reviews, leading to more secure products and reduced post-launch security patches.
Enhanced compliance status
Argus's audit trail capabilities streamlined pre-release device patching and compliance documentation, ensuring regulatory readiness.
Democratized security expertise
Product teams without deep security backgrounds could perform effective threat modeling, freeing up scarce experts for strategic tasks.
Key Takeaways
ArgusEye's platform empowers connected device manufacturers to embed security from the earliest design stages, which accelerates product development, reduces costs, and significantly enhances the security posture of their industrial IoT offerings.
Strengthening Security at Design for Medical Devices
The Challenge
A medical device manufacturer needed to ensure their connected medical devices met stringent FDA cybersecurity guidelines and protected patient data while maintaining rapid development cycles. Traditional security assessments were time-consuming and often missed critical design flaws that could compromise patient safety or violate HIPAA regulations. The manufacturer required a solution that could integrate security analysis directly into their design workflow without disrupting their development timeline.
The Solution
The manufacturer integrated ArgusEye's AI-driven threat modeling platform into their product development workflow. Argus automatically analyzes comprehensive engineering artifacts, including device schematics, software architecture designs, and design specifications. The platform identifies potential security vulnerabilities, critical design flaws, and attack surfaces, generating detailed threat models with prioritized risks. This enables earlier collaboration between engineering and security teams, allowing remediation of issues during the design phase before they become costly post-launch problems.
The Results
Proactive identification of critical design flaws
Argus revealed overlooked vulnerabilities that traditional methods missed, leading to more secure medical devices and enhanced patient safety.
Accelerated path to compliance
Streamlined documentation for regulatory bodies (e.g., FDA) via auditable threat models, reducing approval timelines and ensuring compliance readiness.
Reduced potential for costly recalls
By addressing security issues at the design stage, the manufacturer significantly lowered risks of post-launch vulnerabilities that could trigger device recalls.
Enhanced trust and reputation
Demonstrated commitment to security-by-design reinforced their leadership in patient safety and data privacy, building trust with healthcare providers and patients.
Key Takeaways
ArgusEye's Argus platform empowers medical device manufacturers to integrate robust security directly into their design processes, leading to faster compliance, reduced post-market risks, and a stronger commitment to patient safety.
Ensuring Resilience in Smart Water Management Systems
The Challenge
A major provider of smart water management systems faced increasing pressure to ensure the cybersecurity of their critical infrastructure solutions. Their systems are highly distributed, rely on complex operational technology and IoT devices, and manage water flow, quality monitoring, and distribution. The primary challenge was to proactively identify design weaknesses in their system architecture and control software before deployment, as a single vulnerability could cause catastrophic disruptions in essential water services or environmental damage. Traditional security assessments were insufficient for the scale and complexity of their systems.
The Solution
The water treatment provider integrated ArgusEye's Argus platform into their development and deployment workflows. Argus was used to conduct automated threat modeling on their control system designs, network schematics, and embedded device software components. Argus's AI-powered engine identified potential attack vectors, misconfigurations, and software vulnerabilities specific to their industrial control environments. This enabled engineers to understand and mitigate risks at the design phase, embedding security principles early in the lifecycle of new deployments and upgrades.
The Results
Proactive identification of critical attack vectors
Ensured security was 'baked in' from the design phase, significantly reducing the surface area for cyberattacks and protecting critical water infrastructure.
Enhanced system resilience
By addressing vulnerabilities early, the deployed water management systems became inherently more resistant to cyber incidents, ensuring continuous service delivery.
Streamlined compliance
The detailed threat models and vulnerability reports generated by Argus provided robust documentation for regulatory compliance requirements in the critical infrastructure sector.
Improved stakeholder confidence
Demonstrating a rigorous, AI-driven security-by-design approach instilled greater trust among utility operators and public sector partners.
Key Takeaways
ArgusEye empowers critical water infrastructure providers to build resilient, secure smart water management systems by proactively addressing security risks at the design stage, safeguarding essential services.
Proactive Security for Industrial Control Systems (ICS)
The Challenge
A provider specializing in customized Industrial Control Systems (ICS) faced persistent security challenges due to their proprietary, deeply embedded components with long operational lifecycles. These systems often contain unpatchable components that must operate reliably for decades. The manufacturer struggled with vulnerability and configuration integrity management across diverse systems. Traditional security tools were ill-suited for sensitive operational environments, as security interventions risked disrupting critical industrial processes, impacting safety and productivity. They needed a solution to analyze deeply technical aspects of custom ICS designs without compromising operational integrity.
The Solution
ArgusEye partnered with the ICS specialist to utilize the Argus platform for deep security analysis on unique engineering artifacts. The analysis included specialized control logic, hardware schematics, and proprietary software components. Argus's AI capabilities identified design-level vulnerabilities, potential attack paths specific to their industrial protocols, and configuration weaknesses. The proactive threat modeling approach integrated security into the foundation of ICS products, addressing risks before deployment and ensuring that security measures did not interfere with operational requirements.
The Results
Comprehensive vulnerability identification at design
Argus revealed hidden risks in proprietary and embedded components that traditional methods missed, allowing for remediation before manufacturing and deployment.
Enhanced system integrity and reliability
By addressing design flaws early, they ensured their ICS solutions were inherently more secure and less prone to operational disruption due to cyber incidents.
Streamlined security assurance
The detailed threat models provided clear documentation of security considerations during the design phase, aiding in internal reviews and client assurance.
Focused engineering efforts
Development teams gained clear, prioritized insights into security risks, enabling efficient allocation of resources to build more robust systems.
Key Takeaways
ArgusEye's Argus platform provides tailored, non-disruptive security for highly specialized ICS environments, enabling robust protection for proprietary and unpatchable systems by addressing vulnerabilities at the design phase.