Exploitability Management for Medical Devices

Find the 1% that matter.Prove the 99% don't.

If it's not exploitable, it's not a vulnerability.

ELTON runs AI discovery across the full stack, proves exploitability, and writes the FDA evidence for every dismissal. We run it. You get the platform and the hardware. Built for products that can't fail.

MDDT-recognized methodology1,000+ devices tested and cleared
ISO 14971UL 2900AAMI TIR57AAMI TIR97IEC 62304ISO 13485ISO 27001IEC 81001-5-1IEC 62443-4-1

Trusted by 6 of the top 10 medical device manufacturers, ELTON protects over $1 trillion in market cap

The vulnerability management problem

Every vulnerability you don't fix
is one you must explain to the FDA.

One vulnerability away from a recall. AI made vulnerability discovery cheap. Every SBOM refresh, scanner run, and researcher email adds to a pile your team clears by hand. The pile outgrows any headcount plan, and the FDA questions everything you didn't get to or didn't fix.

FDA Required

It’s the law, 524B

Premarket and postmarket regular testing and management of every vulnerability.

3x

CVE volume by 2028

AI vulnerability discovery is here. Your spreadsheets won’t keep up. ELTON finds and manages.

2+ FTEs

Per product, just for triage

Senior engineers burn quarters proving CVEs don't apply to your device. That work ships nothing.

99%

Of findings never need a fix

But every dismissal needs evidence. FDA reviewers probe the findings you didn't fix, not the ones you did.

THE VULNERABILITY AVALANCHEPublished CVEs a year (NVD), 2025 on projected40K80K120K20172018201920202021202220232024202520262027202814.7K40K72K125KAI ERA BEGINSDiscovery cost collapses,reports go to feed speedPRE-AIVolume creeps: 15K to 29K a yearPOST-AI · 10X BY 2028
The pentesting problem

Legacy pentesting fails product teams.

Consultants bill by the hour. AI doesn't have one. So we test all year, every build, and the price never moves.

Late results, late surprises.

AI surfaces vulnerabilities faster than any legacy pentest can work through them. ELTON runs continuously, every build, no surprises.

ELTON 95% faster, 75% more efficient

TIME Legacy pentest4 weeks ELTON2 days · 95% less COST Legacy pentest100% one-time spend ELTON75% less · continuous fixed annual subscription · tests all year

A consultant sells you a snapshot. ELTON tests all year on one subscription. Same evidence FDA expects, at a quarter of the spend.

Basis of claim: median time-to-findings of 4 weeks and a cost of approximately $100,000 for a consulting pentest, verified across 3 medical device cybersecurity consulting firms. ELTON delivers findings inside 2 days on covered devices.

Pure findings, no fixes.

A finding says something is wrong, rarely what to change. ELTON ships prescriptive remediation down to the code fix, delivered as a ticket or over ELTON MCP.

ELTON provides fixes at the code level

WeaknessTLS negotiation on mgmt portPRESCRIPTIVE FIX · EXACT LINE- ctx = ssl.PROTOCOL_TLS+ ctx.minimum_version =ssl.TLSVersion.TLSv1_3verified against the digital twin · runtimeTicketJira · Azure DevOpsELTON MCPclosed-loop CI/CD1% prioritized now · every weakness carries a fix

Prescriptive fixes for the exact line, delivered where your developers already work. Open a ticket, or run it closed-loop over ELTON MCP.

How ELTON compares

Probability, snapshots, or proof.

Scanners and SBOM platforms
Output
Probability
Touches the real product
No
Evidence behind a dismissal
A score
Coverage as the product changes
Rescan on refresh
Pentest consulting firms
Output
A snapshot
Touches the real product
Once a year
Evidence behind a dismissal
Nothing
Coverage as the product changes
Next engagement
ELTON
Output
Proof
Touches the real product
Continuously
Evidence behind a dismissal
Test case plus rationale
Coverage as the product changes
Every build
The regulatory problem

Legacy testing fails FDA Traceability.

FDA expects hundreds of test cases, each traced from documentation to result. A point-in-time pentest cannot produce that. ELTON generates coverage and traceability as it tests. Submission-proof, audit-proof.

DIGITAL TWINComponents, interfaces, data flowsderiveTEST CASESSASTDASTFuzzingPentest1,847 test cases96% attack-surface coveragetraceTRACEABILITYFDA §524BSBOM · patch plan · doc → resultIEC 62304SW lifecycle · doc → resultThreat modelSTRIDE per interface · doc → resultEvery test case traced to its result
FDA

The deficiencies ELTON sees most, every one triggered by point-in-time testing. Across 1,000+ cybersecurity submissions we have watched hundreds of them add months to a ship date, and some end in recalls. ELTON was built to prevent that, permanently.

ELTON ships with all the knowledge needed to succeed, no consultants required. The SOPs, templates, and submission language come with the platform. ELTON AI stays focused on the hard part: vulnerability identification and management.

Free FDA Submissions and Postmarket Advice

“Deferred” findings, rejected

The FDA will not accept a justification for leaving pentest findings unfixed.

No test cases per interface

USB, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth each need evidenced verification, not a summary.

No vulnerability management plan

Section 524B requires postmarket monitoring and a plan, not just documentation.

Incomplete testing history

The FDA wants all in-scope components and historical testing, not a subset.

No recurring penetration testing

A postmarket plan without annual third-party pentesting draws a deficiency.

Fixes without proof

High-level vendor advice and unproven mitigations do not close a finding.

Two-minute diagnostic

How many deficiencies would your last submission have drawn?

The FDA rejected or questioned a justification for an unfixed pentest finding
You could not produce test cases per interface (USB, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth)
No documented postmarket vulnerability management plan
Testing history did not cover all in-scope components
No recurring annual penetration testing in the postmarket plan
A fix or mitigation shipped without on-device proof
Meet ELTON

The full loop, every release.

ELTON is an exploitability management platform, delivered as a managed service. Our team runs discovery and verification against your device continuously. You get full platform access for your regulatory and security teams, and a TestLink™ appliance on your bench so your product teams can run tests themselves, any hour, any day.

ELTON AI 1 DIGITAL TWIN architecture · security design · threat model 2 IDENTIFY VULNERABILITIES findings · testing 3 CONTEXTUALIZE product-adjusted ratings · vulnerability chains 4 MONITOR & TRACK New CVEs · Vulnerability Lifecycle 5 RESPOND smart fix · what-if
Access changes everything

Scanners guess. ELTON knows.

A scanner or SBOM platform never touches your product. It cannot log in, probe an interface, or watch a payload fail. So it guesses, and it guesses wrong, because it simply does not know.

Scanners and SBOM platforms

No access. No answer.

Version matching against someone else’s advisory. Every rating is a guess about a product it has never seen.

ELTON

Access to one unit. Answers for the product.

Not your whole fleet. A single product is enough to verify what is exploitable, dismiss what is not, and prove both.

Modern Vulnerability Management

If it's not exploitable, it's not a vulnerability.

Less spreadsheet work = Better compliance

ELTON models your product's architecture, then runs test cases from your lab or ours. Every finding is chained back to a root that is exploitable, changing vulnerabilities to weaknesses on-demand, so you disposition less.

AI DISCOVERYFindings by the million, from everyfeed and every test runELTON PLATFORMAI Product ModelArchitecture and security design,modeled from docs your QMS already producesAutonomous Test ExecutionThe harness generates test cases and runs themagainst the real deviceYOUR LAB · TESTLINKOUR LABUNDER TESTChain AnalysisEvery finding traced through the chain it needs,starting from a root that is exploitable directlyENTRY VECTORROOTCONDITIONALNO PATH · WEAKNESSTHE VERDICTDIRECT · A VULNERABILITY6Exploitable as shipped, on its own.Keeps the name. A developer gets it now.CONDITIONAL19Reachable only through another finding.Watched. Inert once the root is fixed.WEAKNESS4,187No exploit path on this device today.Dismissed with the evidence attached.

Directly exploitable

Reachable on its own from the device's exposed attack surface. This is what earns the name vulnerability, and it goes to a developer now.

Conditionally exploitable

Reachable only through indirect access, when another vulnerability breaks first. Mapped to its root and watched, because fixing the root turns it inert.

Internal weakness

No exploit path on this device today. Documented with the reasoning attached, and not called a vulnerability, because it is not one.

The dependency graph

A million vulnerabilities.
Fix the 1% that matter.

ELTON computes an attack graph over the digital twin. Entry vectors produce conditions, findings require them. Remediate a root and watch the conditional chain collapse along with your team's workload.

Direct

Genuinely exploitable from the entry vector on its own. These need a developer now.

Conditional

Reachable only if something else breaks first. Monitored, not urgent. Fix the root and they go inert.

Weakness

No path on this device. Dismissed with the reasoning attached, ready for regulatory review.

Talk to an expert

Security engineering, regulatory, or postmarket. See your workload through ELTON.

Tell us the device and the workload. We show you the graph: the handful to fix, and the evidence for everything else.

6 of the top 10 device makers1,000+ FDA submissions
Prove it everywhere

One platform.
Every jurisdiction.

Every finding and every dismissal is evidenced for regulatory review. MDDT-recognized CVSS is produced as an output, not the headline. Proof leads.

FDA
§524B (PATCH Act)
Premarket and postmarket vulnerability testing and management.
EU
MDR
GSPR Annex I 17.2 and MDCG 2019-16. Security in the technical file, kept current.
EU
CRA
Articles 11 and 14. 24-hour and 72-hour reporting timelines, met automatically.
EU
NIS2
Articles 21 and 23. Continuous surveillance, not annual snapshots.
GLOBAL
IMDRF · Japan · UK · AU
N60 and N73 harmonization, PMDA, MHRA, and TGA expectations.
AI meets physical devices

Real evidence.
In your lab or ours.

Triage that never touches the device is guessing. ELTON reaches a physical unit three ways: our lab, a remote session into yours, or TestLink™ on your bench over out-of-band 5G.

ELTON TestLink™ appliance: a ruggedized case with 5G antennas, cooling, and a physical port panel for cabling to the device under test
ELTON PLATFORM AI Testing Harness Decades of device security expertise, encoded agents · fuzzers · exploits Digital Twin Per release: architecture, interfaces, trust boundaries DIRECT CONNECT REMOTE SESSION OUT-OF-BAND 5G ELTON LAB YOU SHIP IT Product shipped to ELTON. We connect the harness and run it for you, continuously. YOUR LAB ELTON MANAGED The critical device never leaves your building. ELTON targets it remotely for you. YOUR BENCH TESTLINK · SELF-SERVICE TESTLINK DEVICE UNDER TEST Any device on your premise. Plug in, pair, run. Test cases out Results + vulnerabilities back No LAN, no VPN, no agents
Self service

Your product teams test any hour, any day.
Agentically.

Every TestLink™ is a pentester in a box, run from one console over out-of-band 5G. Watch the fleet live: connections, sessions, latency. One bench to a deployment grid, no lab.

ELTON TESTLINK FLEETLIVEout-of-band 5G · northbound REST6/7UMRs online3appliances2live sessions45msRTT p50FLEET DEPLOYMENTStbox-0001CONNECTEDAcme Corp · v7 · livetbox-0002CONNECTEDAcme Corp · v9 · idletbox-0003DEGRADEDNorthwind · cfg drift v5→v77 remote units · 2 paired · click a box to dive inDEPLOYMENT GRIDsites 6 · units 7ELTON CONSOLESeattleoffline×2LabonlineFielddegradedChicagoonlineDenveronlineDallasonlineonlinedegradedoffline
Why medical devices

Built for FDA products that can't fail.

1,000+ medical devices tested and approved with ELTON

Enterprise vendors test one layer, mostly one surface. A medical device is a regulated system of systems: hardware, embedded, web, mobile, and network, and every decision faces regulatory review.

Regulatory Traceability

510(k)/PMA Reporting

Submission artifacts map to what FDA actually reviews: CycloneDX SBOMs, the threat model, vulnerability assessments rated with the FDA-qualified MDDT rubric, and testing evidence with narrative, structured for eSTAR's cybersecurity sections and §524B(b). The same format has carried hundreds of 510(k) and PMA submissions.

See the regulatory guides →

Evidence and History

Postmarket Audit Proof

Every vulnerability keeps its history on the record: identification, triage, rating changes, and the release that fixed it, in a CISA VEX aligned lifecycle with enforced status transitions and required reasons. MTTR and time-to-patch metrics follow FDA postmarket guidance, and any slice exports as an audit-ready report.

Efficient postmarket surveillance →

From the field

Customers that stopped guessing.

Built by the team behind 1,000+ FDA submissions. Trusted by 6 of the top 10 medical device manufacturers.

“The vulnerabilities reported to us today by third parties are AI slop. ELTON helps us automate why they don't matter, it's the only method that has held up to FDA audit.”

Senior Product Security Engineer · Imaging Manufacturer

“We have done many FDA submissions with ELTON's data and had not a single deficiency, we test early and often with AI.”

VP Product Security · Top 10 Global Manufacturer

“We use ELTON's subscription testing services and it has changed how our organization views cybersecurity testing, it's flexible, fast, and better.”

Product Security Director · Top 5 Robotics Manufacturer

“We swapped an annual pentest for continuous coverage. Findings land while the release is still open, not months later.”

Head of Product Security · Cardiac Rhythm Manufacturer

“Our regulatory team stopped assembling evidence by hand. The VEX and rationale come out of the platform ready to submit.”

Director of Regulatory Affairs · Top 5 Imaging OEM

“ELTON showed us the ten findings out of thousands that mattered, and proved the rest. That is the whole job.”

CISO · Surgical Robotics Company

“The vulnerabilities reported to us today by third parties are AI slop. ELTON helps us automate why they don't matter, it's the only method that has held up to FDA audit.”

Senior Product Security Engineer · Imaging Manufacturer

“We have done many FDA submissions with ELTON's data and had not a single deficiency, we test early and often with AI.”

VP Product Security · Top 10 Global Manufacturer

“We use ELTON's subscription testing services and it has changed how our organization views cybersecurity testing, it's flexible, fast, and better.”

Product Security Director · Top 5 Robotics Manufacturer

“We swapped an annual pentest for continuous coverage. Findings land while the release is still open, not months later.”

Head of Product Security · Cardiac Rhythm Manufacturer

“Our regulatory team stopped assembling evidence by hand. The VEX and rationale come out of the platform ready to submit.”

Director of Regulatory Affairs · Top 5 Imaging OEM

“ELTON showed us the ten findings out of thousands that mattered, and proved the rest. That is the whole job.”

CISO · Surgical Robotics Company
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Start with one device. We build the twin from documentation your quality system already produces, run AI discovery remotely, and show you the graph: the handful to fix, and the evidence for everything else.

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