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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

Closing the security gap

When it comes to pentesting, it isn't always doom and gloom. We do have a bright side to the job and that comes in the form of conveying security recommendations to help prevent the tactics and techniques used throughout your testing. In this section, we will discuss some of the security technology that can be implemented to help shore up a blue team's security posture.

MITRE ATT&CK

Before we jump right into the technology side of things, I want to talk about the MITRE ATT&CK matrix, which can be found at this link: https://collaborate.mitre.org/attackics/index.php/Main_Page.

This is a great visual representation of adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs). I recommend running through each item and verifying whether your organization is vulnerable to any of the documented TTPs. Using the lateral movement tactic that we discussed in Chapter 10, I Can Do It 420, Chapter 11, Whoot... I Have To Go Deep, and Chapter 12,...