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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

Additional lab configurations

To round out our lab, we will add more segmentation by adding an interface to our firewall. This interface will allow us to add rules between our Level 3 and Level 2 network segments:

  1. To do this, we need to make changes to our ESXi server. On our ESXi server, we will need to add an additional network adapter to our pfSense firewall. The following screenshot shows how I added Level 2: Local Control where the SCADA VM sits:

    Figure 12.1 – New Network Adapter

  2. After adding the network adapter, we must restart our pfSense firewall and navigate to the web interface. From here, we want to log in to the web portal, select Interfaces, and then Assignments, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 12.2 – Interfaces | Assignments

    You will now see our newly added adapter sitting in the Interface list being addressed as Available network ports, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Figure 12.3 – Available network ports

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