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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

Summary

When I first started in the industry, running these enumerations would reveal a treasure trove of vulnerabilities, but as the industry's security posture has matured, and more security individuals have entered this space, finding the low-hanging fruit as it were has become harder and harder. Staying ahead of tools, patching, monitoring, and security personnel is a constant struggle, but with perseverance and continual training, it is possible. Hence why we looked at both traditional tools, such as NMAP and Gobuster, and newer tools such as RustScan and feroxbuster in this chapter. Learning how to use these tools for port scanning and web application enumeration will help you complete a successful engagement in the future.

In the next chapter, we will be looking deeper at the protocols that drive industrial equipment and how we can leverage these protocols to take control of systems in the industrial network.