Runtime
Protection

Secure your code and third-party libraries with agentless runtime security for IoT, powered by our patented EIV™ (embedded integrity verification) software technology.

Runtime Protection

96.5%

Prevention in industry benchmark tests for memory vulnerabilities

Up to 60%

Less Patching with active mitigation of known and zero-day vulnerabilities

Only 1-3%

Overhead via agentless integration purpose-made for IoT devices

Adaptive On-device Protection

Our unique EIV™ software technology(ies) are the first to introduce adaptive XDR/RASP-like protection for embedded devices. Leveraging binary instrumentation, it categorically prevents all code and memory manipulation attempts and assures system integrity at all times.

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    Verification
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    Deployment
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    and Response
  • Integrity
    Verification

    EIV™ auto-profiles your firmware, including third-party components, and deploys verification checks across all exploitation paths it deterministically prevents all code and memory manipulation attempts.

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  • Agentless
    Deployment

    EIV™ software seamlessly integrates into your build, testing, and deployment process. Running as part of your code, it provides agentless security that has near-zero overhead and doesn’t rely on any external communication.

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  • Threat Detection
    and Response

    EIV’s self-protection is augmented by (XDR-like) threat detection capabilities of our Cloud platform, offering intelligence about indicators of exposure and compromise, ranging from unauthorized access to DDoS or brute force assaults.

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Mitigation of Known and Future Threats

EIV™ provides blanket protection from all major threats, including MITRE’s ‘Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses’ in scope for IoT – command injections, execution flow manipulations, buffer overflows, and more. 

EIV‘s deterministic security model makes it equally effective for keeping devices safe from future threats, 0-day and 1-day mitigation, and reducing cost of security patching.

Customer Story

Detect 0-day Vulnerabilities in Preproduction

Customer Story

A Fortune 500 engaged Sternum for POC, during which Sternum’s runtime protection was integrated into the development process.

Almost immediately, by profiling their firmware in runtime, the team was able to discover four security bugs, including potential memory information leaks and corruption vulnerabilities.

By addressing these bugs pre-market, the company was to resolve issues with relative ease, avoid patching in the field, and prevent future risks to device users.

Read the full case study

Mitigation of Known and Future Threats

Detailed Attack Forensics

For each mitigated attack, our platform provides you with all of the contexts you need to conduct a detailed root cause analysis and address the issue at the source. 

Access to this information also helps make security tangible for your end users, facilitating customer trust and acting as a unique differentiator for your product.

Software Supply Chain Protection

Software supply chain vulnerabilities are among the most common threat vectors. EIV™ software technology(ies) eliminates this risk by securing all running code, including third-party libraries used for communication, encryption, authentication, OTA updates, and other device functions.

Software Supply Chain Protection

Continuous Security Monitoring

Sternum provides you with constant real-time information on cyber threats and intelligence on suspicious behaviors, security weak spots, and other indicators of attack and compromise (IoA and IoC). This security information is sourced to your SOC, SIEM or SOAR  – or analyzed using Sternum’s own interactive dashboards.

Former Product Security Director at Medtronic

“Sternum’s solution saves us time, manpower, and money. Being able to lean on Sternum as an active mitigation is a game changer and the data insights help us build better products and make better decisions.”

Kyle Erickson
Kyle Erickson

Former Product Security Director at Medtronic

Former Product Security Director at Medtronic
VP, Dependable Embedded Systems at the Linux Foundation

“Sternum enhances Zephyr’s built-in security features by providing embedded developers and device manufacturers with additional runtime protection and monitoring capabilities, which they can implement with minimal complexity and zero performance compromises.”

Kate Stewart
Kate Stewart

VP, Dependable Embedded Systems at the Linux Foundation

VP, Dependable Embedded Systems at the Linux Foundation
Senior Security System Architect and Fellow at NXP Semiconductors

“All attacks NXP crafted were blocked by Sternum with CPU overhead of less than 3%. Sternum’s ability to successfully addresses runtime attacks is a valuable addition to many of NXP products.”

Marc Vauclair
Marc Vauclair

Senior Security System Architect and Fellow at NXP Semiconductors

Senior Security System Architect and Fellow at NXP Semiconductors
Head of Product at Vibrant

“We were searching for a solution that delivered advanced security and monitoring capabilities. Sternum provided us exactly with what we needed, all with an effortless integration and without any negative impact on performance.”

Uri Neria
Uri Neria

Head of Product at Vibrant

Head of Product at Vibrant
CEO and co-founder at HARDWARIO

“We have long admired Sternum, for its unique ability to provide remote analysis of firmware runtime. Access to this technology improves our IoT offering and helps our partners deliver more reliable and competitive IoT products and services.”

Pavel Hübner
Pavel Hübner

CEO and co-founder at HARDWARIO

CEO and co-founder at HARDWARIO
CISO at Telit

“Seamless baked-in security with none of the added investment or complexity. Sternum alerts users to any attempt to compromise one of their deployed devices, providing early security intelligence.”

Dr. Mihai Voicu
Dr. Mihai Voicu

CISO at Telit

CISO at Telit

Deterministic Protection for Deterministic Systems

The EIV deterministic runtime security model makes it a perfect fit for similarly deterministic embedded devices. This is how it measures against alternatives:

Sternum,
Iot Security
SBOM Risk Management
Security by Design
Air Gapped Network
Security Patching
SAST or DAST
Compiler Flags / CFI
Cellular or Private Network
Runtime Exploit Prevention
Limited Limited
Unknown, 0-day and 1-day Protection
Limited
Software Attacks
Limited
Memory Integrity / Corruption Protection
Limited Limited
Threat Detection / Behaviour Awareness
Limited
Supply Chain Protection
Limited Limited
Communication Protocol Protection
Limited Limited