Chapter 14: Different Types of Cybersecurity Assessments
Welcome to Section 4, Industrial Cybersecurity – Security Assessments and Intel, of this book! In the next four chapters, we are going to become intimately familiar with security assessments. This chapter will start the conversation with a discussion of the various types of assessments that are commonly performed on the Industrial Control System (ICS) environment and how they differ from security assessments performed in regular Information Technology (IT) environments. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to distinguish between these various types of assessments.
We will cover the following topics in this chapter:
- Understanding the types of cybersecurity assessments
- Risk assessments
- Red team exercises
- Blue team exercises
- Penetration testing
- How do ICS/OT security assessments differ from IT?