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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

Industry protocols

After much thought and outside suggestions, I have added this preliminary section to talk about industry protocols. I specifically narrow in on Modbus and Ethernet/IP since our Koyo CLICK PLC has the ability to leverage both of these protocols. However, I feel that it would have been almost an injustice to not at least touch on the width and breadth of the industrial protocol space. Every industry and region that I have come across has tended to gravitate toward one specific vendor or another. On some continents, I have seen products, vendors, and protocols of equipment uniquely specific to that region of the world. With that said, I am going to quickly cover some of the major industry protocols that you will encounter:

  • Modbus: One of the oldest and most universally adopted protocols, most control applications are engineered in Modbus first and then ported to a different protocol and tested side by side to ensure that the process control strategy functions...