Product Security Reviews: The Basics Are Still the Breach
The Product Security Reviews Report is a data-driven analysis that distills two years of hands-on testing across healthcare, IoT, industrial, and financial systems into a single, sobering insight: attackers don’t need sophistication when simplicity still works. This guide helps security leaders understand why fundamental flaws remain the root cause of breaches—and how to turn that reality into a roadmap for measurable improvement.
Our newest Product Security Review (PSR) aggregates over 24 months of hands-on assessments across healthcare, consumer IoT, industrial control systems and financial-services contexts to reveal a persistent and costly truth: attackers succeed not by zero-days, but by chaining basic flaws that every enterprise should already be fixing.
Key Insights for Security Leaders:
- 75% of flaws were rated Medium or Low Severity, yet these defects formed the backbone of the real-world attack chains we saw.
- Four fault lines dominate: weak authentication, exposed interfaces, insecure cryptography, misconfigurations.
- Maturity varies widely by industry: regulated sectors like healthcare show stronger baselines; consumer IoT and industrial segments remain perilously exposed.
- Attackers exploit availability, not complexity: Internet-facing and easily reverse-engineered products provide fast, low-cost entry.
Why It Matters:
Your next breach likely won’t be a glamorous exploit; it will be a predictable path that no one fixed. Our webcast unpacks these trends and highlights how the fundamentals remain your biggest fault line in product security.
Bottom Line:
Product security isn’t about chasing novelty, it’s about delivering clarity, measurably reducing risk, and building a repeatable model of resilience. If your team wants proof of what matters, this report gives it to you.
