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Pentesting Industrial Control Systems

By : Paul Smith
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Pentesting Industrial Control Systems

By: Paul Smith

Overview of this book

The industrial cybersecurity domain has grown significantly in recent years. To completely secure critical infrastructure, red teams must be employed to continuously test and exploit the security integrity of a company's people, processes, and products. This is a unique pentesting book, which takes a different approach by helping you gain hands-on experience with equipment that you’ll come across in the field. This will enable you to understand how industrial equipment interacts and operates within an operational environment. You'll start by getting to grips with the basics of industrial processes, and then see how to create and break the process, along with gathering open-source intel to create a threat landscape for your potential customer. As you advance, you'll find out how to install and utilize offensive techniques used by professional hackers. Throughout the book, you'll explore industrial equipment, port and service discovery, pivoting, and much more, before finally launching attacks against systems in an industrial network. By the end of this penetration testing book, you'll not only understand how to analyze and navigate the intricacies of an industrial control system (ICS), but you'll also have developed essential offensive and defensive skills to proactively protect industrial networks from modern cyberattacks.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1 - Getting Started
5
Section 2 - Understanding the Cracks
9
Section 3 - I’m a Pirate, Hear Me Roar
15
Section 4 -Capturing Flags and Turning off Lights

Section 1 - Getting Started

Industrial control systems (ICS) are the heart and soul of critical infrastructure. Understanding the process they impact goes a long way toward understanding the vendors chosen and devices running. Due to the nature of the ICS space having many verticals, such as power, energy, chemical, water, manufacturing, transportation, building management, and amusement parks, to name a few, and under these main verticals there being subcategories, such as production/generation, delivery/distribution, and refining, it becomes difficult to build an extensive lab. However, for all intents and purposes, we will be building a test lab as a starting point to explore tactics, techniques, and procedures. This starter lab will help you to develop a foundation that will be scalable as more equipment is accumulated over the years.

The following chapters will be covered under this section: