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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

Installing FoxyProxy

Before diving into the installation of FoxyProxy, we should define what a proxy server is and why we would want to use one. A proxy server is a system that translates traffic from one network or device into another device or network. This is easier said than done, though: what does this mean for us and why would we care about translating traffic? A proxy server allows us to intercept all communication originating from and designated to our attacking host. This allows us to augment and change the behavior of how the request interacts with the server, such as by dropping JavaScript UI filtering and other interesting tasks. So, now that we know what a proxy server is, what is FoxyProxy? FoxyProxy is a simple but powerful proxy switch. It takes all the tediousness out of having to change the internal proxy settings of your browser. Simply add your new setting and use a switch to toggle between proxy servers and turn them on and off.

Follow these steps to install...