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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

Summary

Throughout this chapter, we have looked at various tools and techniques for harvesting credentials and tickets. We leveraged the loot that we captured to escalate our privileges, and then we proceeded to pivot through the firewall that we installed and configured in the first section of this chapter. I know I said it earlier, but I am going to say it again: as my late friend Trevor would say, learning how to pivot is one of the most fundamental skills to develop and practice as a pentester and never forget Smashburger. I am hoping that as you read and worked through this chapter, you gained a better appreciation for why it is so critical to have access to a lab to spin systems up and tear them down, navigate in and around them, and mirror them to replicate your customer's environment.

Now that we have gone this far and we are on the operational side of the network, in the next chapter, we will be interacting with the physical process by using the user interface of...