What BoardSafe does
BoardSafe answers one question about a piece of hardware: does this circuit board, and the firmware on it, match what it is supposed to be? It scans the board against the board's original design files and flags parts that are fake, swapped or not in the design at all. It checks the firmware against a known good version. Each board takes under 60 seconds, and in internal testing the scan found 97% of faults planted on boards.
Devices that pass get a small BoardSafe tamper-evident seal across the join of their case, each with its own serial number, so anyone who opens the case later has to break the seal. For hardware shipped into and deployed in critical infrastructure, defence and security-critical sites, BoardSafe adds yearly audits of critical hardware and maintenance plans, plus on-site visits for compliance checks and hardware integrity verification.
Everything runs on the customer's site. Design files stay with the customer and nothing is sent out to check a board.
Why it exists
Most security work happens in software: patching, monitoring, access control. All of it assumes the hardware underneath is what it claims to be. A board with an added chip, a counterfeit part or changed firmware breaks that assumption in a way no software tool can see from the outside.
Checking a board properly has usually meant sending it to a specialist lab and waiting weeks. That is too slow to check every unit, so most organisations check a sample or none at all. BoardSafe was built to make the check fast enough, and local enough, to run on every device that matters.
Vedametric
BoardSafe is built by Vedametric, an Australian technology company. It launched on Vedametric's BoardSafe page after successful trials with two Australian defence contractors. It is now available to government, defence and critical infrastructure customers.
Security and staff
BoardSafe runs Vedametric's own proprietary models. No data is sent to any other AI model, outside system or third-party staff; everything stays in house. All BoardSafe staff hold security clearances and undergo mandatory police checks and mandatory substance testing. Every inspection is recorded against the individual device, for security and audit logging.
BoardSafe works with hardware vendors directly, and the list of supported products and devices keeps growing. Pricing is per device.
How Vedametric controls its AI, manages risk, reports incidents and opens its models to outside evaluation is set out in its AI safety and security framework.
Founder
Kunal Miind founded BoardSafe. He is CTO and Director at Vedametric and an AI engineer whose work spans distilled AI models, embedded systems and PCB design, and secure engineering for government and defence. BoardSafe draws on all three: AI that can read a circuit board, hardware knowledge of what should be on it, and a security view of why it matters.
Contact
For trials, questions or media, use the trial form, email trials@boardsafe.com.au or call (02) 9011 10 10. Trials are open to government, defence and critical infrastructure organisations, and to the manufacturers and integrators who supply them.
- Office: Suite 2, 42 Darlinghurst Road, Potts Point NSW 2011
- Legal entity: Vedametric is a business name of Amala Innovation Group Pty Ltd, ABN 54 635 436 109
- Capability statement: download the PDF