Restoring Trust: A Code-Execution Story in Ignition Gateway Backups

Restoring Trust: A Code-Execution Story in Ignition Gateway Backups I spend most of my time inside Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform. Years of integration work will do that — you get to know a system’s habits, the places it trusts input a little too readily, the seams where convenience and security pull in opposite directions. Lately I’ve been pointing that familiarity in a different direction: instead of building on Ignition, I’ve been probing it. This is the story of one of those probes, and of a disclosure process that worked the way it’s supposed to. ...

August 27, 2026 · 6 min · Ethan Thomason