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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

Introduction to Gobuster

Gobuster is a web enumeration and directory brute forcing tool that has been written in Go. Up until my discovery of Gobuster, I was using tools such as Nikto, Cadaver, Skipfish, WPScan, OWASP ZAP, and DirBuster. Every one of these tools has its strengths and weaknesses but, in the end, they all worked pretty much the same with varying results. However, I was looking for something that I could run from the command line and didn't contain a thick client to run.

This is when I stumbled across Gobuster. It was everything I was looking for in a command-line-driven web enumeration tool. I can quickly switch between directory brute forcing and virtual host enumeration. I can switch wordlists on the fly, set command-line arguments to perform file detection, and finally, adjust the thread count. All these features are why I personally have been using Gobuster during pentest engagements. In this section, we are going to install Gobuster and run it against our...