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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 corporate environment elements

In Chapter 1, Using Virtualization, we installed four virtual machines (VMs), consisting of two Ubuntu, one Windows 7, and one Kali Linux distribution. We then proceeded to create subnets based on the Purdue model, and then assigned static IP addresses to those individual VMs, aligning them individually to their respective organizational network levels. In this section, we are going to add the corporate side of an ICS lab by setting up a Windows 2019 domain controller running AD, Domain Name System (DNS), and a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server. We will also connect a Windows 10 workstation to the domain. As a refresher, our lab should currently look something like the following figure:

Figure 10.1 – Current lab layout

Once you complete the setup of the domain controller and workstation, your network layout should appear similar to the following figure:

Figure 10.2 –...