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Practical Hardware Pentesting

By : Jean-Georges Valle
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Practical Hardware Pentesting

By: Jean-Georges Valle

Overview of this book

If you’re looking for hands-on introduction to pentesting that delivers, then Practical Hardware Pentesting is for you. This book will help you plan attacks, hack your embedded devices, and secure the hardware infrastructure. Throughout the book, you will see how a specific device works, explore the functional and security aspects, and learn how a system senses and communicates with the outside world. You’ll set up a lab from scratch and then gradually work towards an advanced hardware lab—but you’ll still be able to follow along with a basic setup. As you progress, you’ll get to grips with the global architecture of an embedded system and sniff on-board traffic, learn how to identify and formalize threats to the embedded system, and understand its relationship with its ecosystem. You’ll discover how to analyze your hardware and locate its possible system vulnerabilities before going on to explore firmware dumping, analysis, and exploitation. The reverse engineering chapter will get you thinking from an attacker point of view; you’ll understand how devices are attacked, how they are compromised, and how you can harden a device against the most common hardware attack vectors. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with security best practices and understand how they can be implemented to secure your hardware.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Getting to Know the Hardware
6
Section 2: Attacking the Hardware
12
Section 3: Attacking the Software

Industry good practices – what are they and where to find them

There isn't really an OWASP top 10 for hardware but there are some for very closely related subjects that we can actually rely on for reference. Let's have a look at these different standards so that you are aware of them and can select the ones that are the most adequate for your project. Depending on the specific device, one or more standards can apply. This has to be discussed with the client, but you can always refer to them as good practices!

Different verticals (or industries) have different standards for security, safety, and sometimes both. Let's have a look at the most common one (that is, a device targeted at the consumer market): the OWASP IoT top 10, which is very often the default standard framework you can use in most cases.

OWASP IoT top 10

The OWASP IoT top 10 is available here: https://wiki.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Internet_of_Things_Project#tab=IoT_Top_10.

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