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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

Turning lights on with Ethernet/IP

This protocol has been widely adopted in the North American market. I feel it was due to the fact that it became the foundational protocol utilized and baked into Rockwell Automation products. It started popping up in the control engineering space in the late 90s, almost two decades after Modbus. Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) messages are the core element that powers Ethernet/IP. It is the object-oriented and open nature of CIP that has allowed quick adoption in the market. An interesting stat that I came across was that Ethernet/IP was estimated to have had 30% utilization in the industrial global market share. This is quite substantial and the reason why it makes it worth discussing and reviewing in this book. For a more in-depth and detailed read on the Ethernet/IP protocol, use the link https://www.odva.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PUB00035R0_Infrastructure_Guide.pdf and read through the material that is provided by Open DeviceNet Vendors...