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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

Chapter 10: I Can Do It 420

Up till now, there has been a heavy focus on automation – understanding what a PLC is and how it communicates. A key topic discussed was connectivity – specifically, connecting the PLC to the physical I/O, and also connecting it back up to SCADA. We also learned about Modbus and Ethernet/IP, and how to interact with the I/O. Additionally, we discussed using various tools to scan and enumerate ports and services in order to discover what protocols could be running in the environment. In the last chapter, we looked at using Burp Suite to interact with Ignition, our web-hosted SCADA system. All these tools and skills are critical to completing a successful engagement. However, we have in actuality spent most of our time looking at the SCADA and physical hardware side of the network. Depending on your engagement, typically considered white box, it is possible that the customer will drop you into the ICS network and basically give you free run to...