WHY MODERN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS MATTER.

Nearly 20B IoT Devices in Use Today. IoT Analytics reports 16.6 billion connected IoT devices at the end of 2023, with projections reaching 20 billion+ by the end of 2025. As device counts surge, systems become more interconnected and more complex.

20 B

10M+ Active End‑of‑Life (EoL) Embedded Devices. A 2021 measurement study found over 2 million active EoL devices from just three manufacturers, and nearly 300,000 remaining live five years post‑EoL. At scale, that points toward 10 million+ vulnerable devices globally.

10 M

60% of IoT breaches stem from unpatched firmware. Failures to timely apply updates are the single biggest driver of security incidents in connected systems.

60 %

Zero Margin for Error in Mission-Critical Firmware. Unsupported embedded devices are prime targets for attacks. Research shows many EoL devices are publicly exploitable and can be leveraged in large-scale attacks (e.g. multi‑gigabit DDoS)