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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

User interface control

Now, I know that we installed a SCADA system into our lab for testing purposes, and yes, we have been beating up on Ignition SCADA throughout this book, but know that performing these actions and practicing these attacks translates into real industry installations. At the core of all SCADA and Distributed Control Systems (DCS) lies the same underlying principle:

  1. Take in the input.
  2. Run logic and routines against the input.
  3. Deliver the output to the process.

This means that even though countless companies are producing SCADA and DCS software, they all function the same way. The following are a few systems that you may see:

  • Weatherford Cygent SCADA
  • Schneider Electric Telvent
  • Emerson Zedi Solutions, Ovation, Progea, and DeltaV
  • Aveva Citech SCADA
  • Honeywell Experion
  • ABB SCADAvantage, Symphony, and 800xA
  • GE Cimplicity
  • SurvalentOne SCADA

The list goes on, and the one supplied here is a generalized list...