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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 2: Route the Hardware

This chapter will take you on the lovely journey of understanding how to connect physical hardware to virtual infrastructure. Understanding how a machine is running ESXi can route communications through to local Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs), and other such devices. This section will utilize Koyo Click software and hardware to start with, as the Koyo Click PLC is a very cost-effective choice, and the engineering programming software is free to use, unlike other mainstream vendors who require you to pay hefty sums of money to license their programming software. Know that the principles and methods discussed in this chapter are reflected in those of other automation vendors, such as Siemens, Rockwell, Schneider, Omron, Mitsubishi, and many others. If getting access to a Koyo Click proves to be difficult, you can follow along with a PLC of your choice. Note that you will be required to get access to the engineering...