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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 12: I See the Future

After the previous chapter, if you are reading this in the order as it was written, then we have pivoted through our corporate network through the firewall and now have a remote desktop session on our Windows 7 machine. We have come full circle as we started this book by building the lab, routing virtual traffic to our physical Programmable Logic Controller (PLC), and building our first program. This Windows 7 machine is what we used to configure our first PLC program and push it to Koyo Click. On this adventure, we have slowly added bits and pieces to our lab, building our skillset and knowledge along the way. Arriving here indicates that the finish line is within sight. However, we have one last challenge, and that challenge is connecting to the process and simulating disruption. Simulation is the keyword here; as we've mentioned throughout this book, process disruption could have an extreme impact in terms of costs and potentially life-threatening...