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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

Running BurpSuite

In the previous section, we installed FoxyProxy and configured some settings to accommodate our BurpSuite software. In this section, we are going to utilize BurpSuite to help us understand the Request/Response actions that Ignition SCADA utilizes to perform authentication and authorization. Now, for us to proceed, we need to add BurpSuite's certificate as a trusted source; otherwise, we will be forced to acknowledge every website we've visited as an exception.

To do this, we must navigate to the IP address and port that we configured in our settings. Upon doing this, you will be presented with a BurpSuite Community Edition splash page with a CA Certificate button on the right-hand side, as shown here:

Figure 9.10 – CA Certificate location

Upon clicking this button, you will be presented with the following screen:

Figure 9.11 – Saving the CA Certificate

Select Save File and click the OK button...