Break Systems mark BREAK SYSTEMS

To secure a system,
you must first break it.

Break Systems is an elite cybersecurity, research, and deep-tech software consultancy. We work where abstractions end. Silicon, kernels, protocols, and the algorithms above them; finding the failure points your architecture is hiding, then transferring that understanding to your team.

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brk, the instruction that halts execution so you can finally see what's really happening. It's also how we work.

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Offense-first, by conviction

Documentation describes intent. Behavior under attack describes reality. Every engagement begins by treating your system the way a capable adversary or an unlucky Tuesday in production will treat it: we interrupt it, instrument it, and take it apart at the layer where the truth lives.

Break

Deliberate, controlled failure. Fault injection, protocol abuse, memory-level analysis, and adversarial pressure applied where your architecture claims to be strong.

Understand

Every break produces a mechanism, not a symptom. We map the exact chain from design decision to catastrophic failure point in your code, your silicon, or your model.

Secure & improve

Findings become architecture. We harden the system with your engineers at the keyboard, so the fix, and the reasoning behind it, stays in the building.

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Capabilities

Four domains. No generalists. Hover a line to set a breakpoint.

Embedded & bare-metal security

Security hardening for microcontrollers running at the metal: boot chains, memory protection units, peripheral attack surface, side channels, and firmware integrity on constrained silicon.

  • TI (MSP430 / Sitara / SimpleLink)
  • ESP32 / Espressif
  • STM32
  • Raspberry Pi
  • VxWorks
  • FreeRTOS

From bare-metal firmware to hard real-time systems: task isolation, interrupt-path integrity, secure boot and update pipelines, and RTOS configurations that survive hostile inputs, not just the happy path in the datasheet.

Operating system & protocol engineering

Deep work inside Linux and Windows internals, schedulers, memory management, drivers, syscall boundaries. Plus design, implementation, and adversarial analysis of niche and proprietary network protocols.

  • Linux internals
  • Windows internals
  • Kernel & driver surface
  • Custom / niche wire protocols
  • State-machine & parser hardening

When the bug lives below your application, application-level consultants can't see it. We can, and we've usually seen its family before.

Web infrastructure at the performance edge

High-performance security engineering for serving infrastructure: Nginx architecture and tuning, HTTP semantics and configuration hardening, TLS termination strategy, and the failure modes that only appear at load.

  • Nginx
  • HTTP/1.1 · HTTP/2 · HTTP/3 semantics
  • Request-smuggling & desync surface
  • Config-level hardening

A reverse proxy is a protocol translator with root-adjacent consequences. We treat its configuration as code under attack, because it is.

Research: AI security & algorithmic vulnerabilities

A dedicated research branch analyzing the security properties of AI systems and the algorithms underneath them. Adversarial robustness, model and pipeline attack surface, and vulnerabilities that live in the math rather than the memory.

  • Adversarial ML analysis
  • Model & inference pipeline attack surface
  • Algorithmic complexity attacks
  • Applied cryptanalytic review

The newest attack surface in your stack didn't exist three years ago. Our research branch exists so your architecture isn't the experiment.

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The embedded-SME model

We don't deliver decks from a distance. We deploy hyper-focused subject-matter experts directly into your engineering team. One deep specialist, inside your workflow, accountable to your outcomes.

  1. attach

    Embed & analyze trade-offs

    The SME joins your team's actual environment. Repos, design reviews, hardware bench, and works through your architectural trade-offs with the people who own them. Real constraints, not slideware assumptions.

  2. inspect

    Locate catastrophic failure points

    Systematic pressure on the design surfaces the failures that matter: the ones that end products, leak fleets, or take the platform down. Each finding arrives as a mechanism with severity, blast radius, and a remediation path.

  3. detach

    Transfer knowledge, then leave cleanly

    Comprehensive knowledge transfer and hands-on mentorship are the deliverable, not an appendix. Pairing, internal deep-dive sessions, and written engineering rationale ensure your team owns the expertise long after we detach.

The measure of a Break Systems engagement is what your team can do without us afterward.

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Set a breakpoint

Tell us what you're building and where it keeps you up at night. A principal engineer, not a sales layer, reads every inquiry.

Routed directly to engineering leadership. No mailing lists, ever.