About Attify
Built for the work that gets harder as systems get more complex
Why Attify exists
A lot of security work still follows the same pattern: enumerate the surface, run the workflow, collect the findings, ship the report.
That works well enough on simple targets. It breaks down on layered systems where the most important failures emerge from interactions, trust boundaries, and system behavior rather than isolated components.
Attify was built for that class of work.
The company exists to help practitioners and teams work on difficult systems with stronger reasoning, clearer methods, and findings that can survive technical scrutiny.
Founded by Aditya Gupta
Attify was founded by Aditya Gupta, a security researcher, trainer, and author with deep roots in IoT, mobile, and embedded systems security.
Aditya is the author of The IoT Hacker's Handbook (Apress) and IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook (Packt), and has trained and spoken at Black Hat (US, EU, Asia), DEF CON, OWASP AppSec, and conferences worldwide.
Attify grew out of years of applied offensive security work across mobile applications, IoT devices, embedded systems, and other environments where documentation was incomplete, architectures were messy, and the hardest problems were rarely the most obvious ones.
Over time, one thing became clear: the difference between average security work and serious security work was not just technical knowledge. It was the ability to make the system legible, decide what mattered, generate meaningful hypotheses, and connect findings back to evidence.
That became CFSE, a formal methodology for systematic security analysis. And it shaped Attify's training programs, consulting approach, and the open-source tools used by IoT security practitioners worldwide.
Today that work shows up most directly in Offensive IoT Exploitation, Advanced Android & iOS Hands-on Exploitation, and Offensive Intelligence Engineering.
Where the method becomes practice
Offensive IoT Exploitation (OIX)
Hands-on guided program covering hardware, firmware, wireless, protocols, and device-cloud attack paths for IoT and embedded systems.
Advanced Android & iOS Hands-on Exploitation
Guided program for Android, iOS, and cross-platform mobile security, from runtime instrumentation to architecture-level reasoning.
Offensive Intelligence Engineering (OIE)
Flagship methodology training: learn CFSE end-to-end for analyzing complex systems, generating hypotheses, and producing evidence-backed findings.
Private Team Training
Remote or on-site delivery for security, engineering, and product teams. Adapted to your systems, stack, and priorities.
Security Consulting
IoT assessments, mobile penetration testing, product security reviews, and advisory for teams shipping complex products.
Research & Open Source
CFSE methodology, AttifyOS, Firmware Analysis Toolkit, and applied security research that feeds everything else.
How Attify works
Make the system legible
Better security work starts with understanding what is actually there, how it behaves, and where the important boundaries live.
Prefer evidence to intuition
Experience matters, but claims should still be testable, explainable, and defensible.
Build methods that survive the moment
The work should leave behind reusable understanding, not just a one-off report.
Stay practical under pressure
Good methodology is not academic decoration. It should help teams work more clearly on real systems, in real time.
Raise the standard, not the noise
The goal is not more theater around security. It is better work.
Proof from the field
For training buyers, the important question is whether Attify can teach advanced practitioners and teams from real depth. That proof comes from published work, enterprise delivery, practitioner-stage training history, and original tools and methodology.
Built by a published practitioner
Founded by Aditya Gupta, author of The IoT Hacker's Handbook, IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook, and Learning Pentesting for Android Devices.
Field-tested on major security stages
Training and speaking history includes Black Hat, DEF CON, OWASP AppSec, PhDays, Nullcon, Cocon, SyScan, and Toorcon.
Trusted by advanced teams
Private training has been delivered for Samsung, Honeywell, Oracle, Kaiser Permanente, Kudelski Security, Booz Allen Hamilton, ETRI, KACST, and other enterprise organizations.
Grounded in original tooling and method
Attify training is backed by original open-source work including AttifyOS, Firmware Analysis Toolkit, and the CFSE methodology used across research and delivery.
Published works
- The IoT Hacker's Handbook (Apress)
- IoT Penetration Testing Cookbook (Packt)
- Learning Pentesting for Android Devices (Packt)
Conference speaking & training
- Black Hat USA, Europe, and Asia
- DEF CON
- OWASP AppSec
- PhDays
- Nullcon
- Cocon
- SyScan
- Toorcon
Selected private training and enterprise delivery
- Samsung
- Honeywell
- Oracle
- Kaiser Permanente
- Kudelski Security
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- ETRI
- KACST
Open-source tools and methodology
- AttifyOS
- Firmware Analysis Toolkit
- CFSE methodology
Future systems need sharper methods now
The systems worth securing are becoming more connected, more behaviorally complex, and increasingly shaped by AI.
That makes stronger reasoning, clearer methods, and better evidence more valuable, not less.
Attify is being built for that future.