Book Image

Pentesting Industrial Control Systems

By : Paul Smith
Book Image

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

In this chapter, we discussed tips and techniques for drafting a penetration report and went through key elements that will help close the security gap for your customers.

These topics round out the pentesting journey, which brings us to the end of the chapter and, ultimately, the book. Some people might have made it this far and they may be disappointed that there was no click, deploy, and pwn solution to hack critical infrastructure. I have to say that writing this book caused some moral dilemmas with how deep to go on certain topics and how much compromising information should be revealed. I think that enough knowledge was passed on to help new pentesters establish a firm foundation and build on these fundamental skills. I wish you luck and best wishes on your journey, and I will leave you with this quote:

"There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward – opening up new doors and doing new things – because we're curious...