Leeds, UK, 30th March 2026: Periphery has announced the launch of EdgeWalker, a free open source tool to bring high-fidelity product security auditing to the public. The tool empowers users to identify and score risks in minutes using the same logic used to protect enterprises and critical networks.
Households now contain an average of more than 20 connected devices. Many of these ‘black box’ systems ship with factory-default credentials and unpatched vulnerabilities that go undetected. As a result, vulnerable home-based devices are increasingly leveraged in botnets or could serve as entry points to the energy infrastructure.
Periphery, as experts in securing resource-constrained technologies, believes security shouldn't be a luxury. EdgeWalker is the company’s way of providing the community with visibility into the extended lifecycle of devices that were often designed for connectivity first, and long-term security maintenance second.
EdgeWalker is a lightweight, high-precision assessment tool designed to give homeowners the same visibility of their network periphery as enterprises enjoy. It performs a deep-dive audit of your network, identifying every active service, from standard HTTP to industrial-grade management protocols, flagging devices using vulnerable factory-default passwords (SSH, FTP, Telnet, SMB), and correlating detected firmware versions against the latest CVE databases to find unpatched software risks.
The tool was developed during an internal hackathon weekend at which the Periphery team was challenged to develop something to advance the wider security community. It can be run on any standard Linux or Mac environment, and is available on GitHub, here.
Adam Massey, co-founder and Chief Security Officer of Periphery, said: “Our research into home security found some alarming cyber risks being inadvertently introduced to home networks across the country. Connected devices like EV chargers and inverters are shipped with enterprise capabilities but legacy security, and often contain unresolved vulnerabilities out of the box. The aim of this EdgeWalker project is to empower individual consumers to take control of their domestic digital security, using the same logic and process that enterprises use to protect themselves.”
