Hardware Sunset Audit
A quarterly audit service for small business owners that flags EOL or vulnerable network gear (routers, firewalls, NAS, IP cameras) and produces a one-page replacement plan they can hand to their IT contractor or MSP.
Owners of 10–50 person businesses with no in-house IT staff
- Quarterly network device inventory with vulnerability and end-of-life flags
- Priority-ranked replacement list with estimated budget ranges
- Auto-generated one-page brief formatted for an outside IT vendor or MSP
- PCI-DSS and insurance-relevant reminders when network gear touches card data
Small businesses increasingly rely on consumer-grade routers that vendors quietly abandon, and there is no audit signal short of a breach; the MR2600 case shows how exposed these devices can remain for years.
Real and recent threat signal: MR2600 carries critical 9.6 CVSS unauthenticated RCE (CVE-2024-23626/23628/23629) exploitable from the internet, and CrowdStrike/Stationx report SMBs face widening gaps in execution, budget and support — but SMB awareness of EOL-vs-EOSL remains low.Latest vulnerabilities for Motorola MR2600 — SecAlerts (CVE-2024-23629, critical 9.6) ↗The State of SMB Cybersecurity in 2025 — CrowdStrike ↗
Direct competitors exist: eol.network ships a bulk CLI/EOL lookup tool and replacement-plan guidance, and Cisco/Router-Switch publish free EOL/EOSL databases — but none packages a quarterly, owner-facing, one-page handoff document the way this idea does; the SMB-owner-with-no-IT-staff niche is partially served, not fully.How to Audit EOL Network Hardware — eol.network ↗EOL Checker & Lookup Tool — Router-Switch ↗
Vulnerability assessments commonly run multi-thousand dollars per engagement and MSSP/SMB recurring security contracts anchor $1.5k+/mo, giving a quarterly audit a credible $300-$600/quarter ($1.2k-$2.4k/yr) price band; cyber-insurance due-diligence requirements are an emerging willingness-to-pay pull, though SMBs remain price-sensitive.Vulnerability Assessment Pricing 2025: Cost, Factors & ROI — DeepStrike ↗How Much Should a Vulnerability Assessment Cost? Benchmarks — Network Assured ↗
Hardware EOL is a structural, never-ending problem: vendors ship support timelines, SMB attack surface keeps expanding (routers/NAS/IP cameras/IoT), and compliance plus cyber-insurance mandates push continuous audit demand — long-tail tailwinds with no risk of saturation.Small Business Cybersecurity Statistics and Trends [2026] — StationX ↗End-of-Life Hardware Planning Guide — Thomastech ↗
Core build is straightforward (nmap/firmware probing + vendor EOL DB + templated PDF), but reliable remote device identification without on-prem agent or MSP hand-off is the hard part; MVP needs a manual-inventory intake flow plus deep CLI-fingerprinting to reach acceptable accuracy.