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Practical Hardware Pentesting

By : Jean-Georges Valle
Book Image

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

Reaching the crown jewels – how do we create impacts?

The means to achieving these target goals will involve using STRIDE to evaluate the components of the system. We will try to reason about the system to see how we can reach those crown jewels (usually by weakening or compromising security properties). During the evaluation process, we will look at the system within its ecosystem (as a functional part of a whole process) and try to understand how we can reach the crown jewels by compromising it.

Once the crown jewels have been identified, we will evaluate the components in terms of STRIDE to understand how they can allow us to reach the crown jewels.

STRIDE through the components to compromise properties

Tip

Some other methodologies exist to take care of this, but they are far beyond the scope of this book. If you are interested, you can refer to EBIOS (https://www.ssi.gouv.fr/en/guide/ebios-risk-manager-the-method/) or ISO/IEC 13335-2 (https://www.iso.org/standard...