Space · Defense · Aeronautics

Security testing that stays under your command

Hardware and software security investigations for teams building and certifying defence, space, aeronautics and government systems. Deployed in your own environment, operated by your own teams, with sensitive assets and results remaining under your control.

Satellite in orbit linked to a ground station, with an aircraft on a secured flight path
The challenge

Own your security assessment capability

If a device is captured, salvaged or diverted from a supply chain, someone will try to extract what's inside: a key, an algorithm, your software's logic. For defense, space and aeronautics programs, that risk doesn't wait for a scheduled audit.

eShard gives your team the tools and platforms to run that testing itself: side-channel analysis and fault injection on your hardware, reverse engineering on your firmware and operating systems, all under your own roof. The findings and the expertise they build stay inside your organization.

Sectors

Where this matters for you

Defense

Communications, radar, and autonomous systems all carry the same exposure: cryptographic keys and mission logic embedded in hardware and software that can end up outside your control. What a captured or salvaged device can be made to reveal matters as much as the mission it was built for.

White paper
Assume capture: securing autonomous systems

Space

Ground stations, SATCOM systems, and the infrastructure that keeps a space program running spend far more time within reach than anything in orbit does.
That's exactly where hardware and software security testing can happen normally, on a bench, on your own schedule, rather than being treated as a one-shot check before something becomes unreachable.

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Use case
ESA's Hardware Security Lab, built with eShard

Aeronautics

Avionics systems often mix hardware that's decades old with newer connected components. A platform built to fly for that long needs security testing that keeps pace with attack techniques that didn't exist when it was designed.

Working on avionics?
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How ESA built a dedicated Hardware Security Laboratory with eShard

Selected through a competitive tender in 2024, eShard designed, verified and delivered a complete hardware security lab to ESA's ESTEC centre, so its engineers can replicate real-world physical attacks against ground-segment equipment.

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ESA engineers operating test equipment in the Hardware Security Laboratory built by eShard
Image credit: ESA
WHY ESHARD

Built for teams that can't outsource their secrets

01
Own the capability
Run security testing on your own infrastructure, on your own schedule, and directly within your development cycle. Keep sensitive binaries, traces, designs, and results inside your organization.
02
Connect hardware and software security
Investigate security across the full system. With esDynamic for side-channel analysis and fault injection, and esReverse for reverse engineering, move from physical attacks to software behavior without breaking the investigation workflow.
03
Retain and compound knowledge
Preserve investigation methods, configurations, traces, evidence, and findings within the project so they remain available to the whole team. Analysts can reuse and extend previous work, turning each investigation into a foundation for the next.
Portfolio

Everything you need to test in-house

Near-field EM probe positioned over a microchip on a circuit board

Side-channel analysis

Recover what a device's power consumption or electromagnetic emissions leak about its cryptographic keys, including post-quantum algorithms like ML-KEM and ML-DSA. esDynamic runs the acquisition and analysis on your own bench.

Electromagnetic fault injection bench with probe and optics

Fault injection

Test how a device behaves under electromagnetic, laser, and voltage or clock glitching attacks, on the same esDynamic platform as your side-channel work.

Electromagnetic fault injection bench with probe and optics

Reverse engineering

Investigate firmware, embedded software, and operating system internals. esReverse and its Epoch time travel debugging engine do the heavy lifting.

Services

Get results now, build capability for next time

Expert services

When you need a specific engagement test and don't have a clearance-ready team in place yet, eShard's experts can run the testing for you. It's a way to get an assessment done now, while you build up in-house capability for next time.

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esCoaching

Hands-on training delivered directly to your team, built around your hardware, your tools, and the specific skills your analysts need next.

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TALK TO AN EXPERT

Ready to bring security testing in-house?

Talk to our team about your program, your hardware, and where to start.

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