Red Balloon Security

Red Balloon Security is an embedded-device and firmware security company that protects critical infrastructure across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial control, and electrical-grid systems. Its offerings include Firmware Hardening (securing firmware binaries against exploitation without source access), Runtime Defense (firmware-level continuous attestation with real-time integrity alerts), embedded device security assessments, and the Bitwise FPGA bitstream analysis platform. Red Balloon's public developer surface is OFRAK (Open Firmware Reverse Analysis Konsole), an open-source binary analysis and modification framework that unpacks, analyzes, modifies, and repacks firmware and executables, distributed as official Python packages on PyPI with a CLI and web GUI. Red Balloon publishes no hosted public REST API; this profile catalogs the OFRAK developer surface (packages, CLI, changelog) and company link properties.

Red Balloon Security is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Security, Firmware, Embedded Systems, and Binary Analysis.

Red Balloon Security’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, signup flow, CLI, and 10 more developer resources.

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27.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanySecurityFirmwareEmbedded SystemsBinary AnalysisReverse EngineeringCritical InfrastructureOpen Source

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Composite quality — 27.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 10.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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  across automotive, aerospace, defense, industrial control, and electrical-grid systems. Its offerings include Firmware Hardening
  (securing firmware binaries against exploitation without source access), Runtime Defense (firmware-level continuous attestation
  with real-time integrity alerts), embedded device security assessments, and the Bitwise FPGA bitstream analysis platform.
  Red Balloon's public developer surface is OFRAK (Open Firmware Reverse Analysis Konsole), an open-source binary analysis
  and modification framework that unpacks, analyzes, modifies, and repacks firmware and executables, distributed as official
  Python packages on PyPI with a CLI and web GUI. Red Balloon publishes no hosted public REST API; this profile catalogs the
  OFRAK developer surface (packages, CLI, changelog) and company link properties.
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