The IT Nerd

Finite State today announced that Founder and CEO Matt Wyckhouse will lead a panel on “Designing Connected Devices with Security Built In” at 2:35–3:20 p.m. PT, May 19, 2026, at IoT Tech Expo North America. The conference, one of the industry’s largest gatherings focused on IoT, AI, cybersecurity, edge computing, and digital transformation, will be held at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California, on May 18–19, 2026.

Leaders from Boeing, SmartTech Research, and EVRaid will join Wyckhouse in examining the evolving security risks facing connected devices, industrial systems, and software-driven products as AI adoption and regulatory pressure accelerate across the IoT ecosystem. Key focus areas of the panel include:

• Embedding security: Moving away from reactive, bolted-on security toward integrating protection at the design stage.
• Best practices: Implementing secure boot processes, hardware root of trust, and strong encryption.
• Long-term resilience: Strategies for continuous threat monitoring and ensuring security measures adapt as devices age.

Attendees will gain new insight into how manufacturers and technology providers can improve visibility into device software, manage vulnerabilities across product lines, and prepare for rapidly expanding global cybersecurity regulations impacting connected products.

Finite State Live Demonstrations

At Booth #47, the Finite State team will run live demonstrations of artifact-backed workflows that turn shipped software into audit-ready evidence:

• Unified product intelligence: Firmware, binaries, source, and supplier inputs connect into a complete, up-to-date system of record grounded in what actually ships.
• Exploitability-based prioritization: Reachability and context surface real exposure, with defensible rationale for what matters and what doesn’t.
• New CVE to impacted products: Vulnerability disclosure moves to impact analysis quickly, with consistent VEX decisions and traceable outputs across builds.
• Design-to-deployment traceability: Architecture, threats, risks, and requirements connect directly to deployed software and stay aligned as systems evolve.
• Continuous compliance outputs: SBOM, VEX, traceability, and audit-ready reports are generated automatically and stay current across releases.

Securing What Ships, at Portfolio Scale

The panel reflects a market reality: for connected-device manufacturers, securing what ships has become a portfolio-scale problem. Vendored components embedded in firmware rarely appear in source manifests, vulnerability volume outpaces manual triage, and the EU Cyber Resilience Act now enforces incident disclosure timelines as short as 24 hours.

The Finite State Product Security OS closes that gap by analyzing shipped firmware directly, prioritizing reachable risks over raw CVE counts, and maintaining one evidence trail per product version. Teams across medical, automotive, industrial, and consumer IoT use it to keep security and compliance current at release cadence. To discuss these capabilities directly, attendees interested in meeting with the Finite State team during the event can book a meeting on the Finite State IoT Tech Expo event page.

Finite State, a leader in product security and software supply chain risk management, today announced the appointment of Ann Miller as Vice President of Marketing. Miller brings more than 15 years of experience scaling high-growth technology companies, with deep expertise in cybersecurity and AI-driven platforms, and is known for turning emerging technologies into market-defining categories.

Miller joins Finite State at a pivotal moment as enterprises face increasing pressure to secure software embedded across critical infrastructure, connected devices, and regulated environments. Her appointment underscores the company’s commitment to defining the future of product security through data, automation, and AI.

Prior to joining Finite State, Miller led marketing at Horizon3.ai, where she helped scale the company from early-stage to thousands of customers, driving rapid market adoption. During her tenure, Horizon3.ai was recognized as the #1 fastest-growing cybersecurity company on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list and established leadership in autonomous security testing. Earlier in her career, she held strategic roles at Cylance, a pioneer in AI-driven endpoint security, and iboss, a leader in cloud security.

Miller will lead all aspects of marketing, including branding, demand generation, product marketing, and go-to-market strategy.

She is the latest expansion of the Finite State executive team, following the February 2026 appointment of Sharon Hagi as Chief Security Officer, and January 2026 appointment of Chris Overton as Executive Vice President of Engineering.

Hagi brings more than 30 years of experience building and operating security programs across semiconductors, IoT, embedded systems, AI-enabled platforms, and cloud environments. Leading Finite State’s Security and Services organization, Hagi ensures execution, customer outcomes, and operational excellence.

Overton brings more than 20 years of engineering leadership experience. He drives Finite State’s engineering innovation at a critical stage of the company’s growth, as device manufacturers face increasing pressure to ship faster while meeting requirements such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act and other emerging security mandates.