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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

Installing the Click software

Welcome to the first topic of the chapter. In this section, we will be stepping through the installation of the Koyo Click software. This software will let us communicate with, and upload and download programs to and from, the Koyo Click PLC.

I am going to preface this chapter by saying that, once again, this is not a sales pitch for Koyo Click or AutomationDirect; it simply is a very flexible, versatile, holistic, and cost-effective choice of PLC. Additionally, AutomationDirect is a one-stop-shop, whereby you can place an order and obtain everything you need to build a complete lab.

With that disclaimer out of the way, let's navigate over to the AutomationDirect website. Please click on the following link: https://www.automationdirect.com/support/software-downloads?itemcode=CLICK.

We are going to download the software for programming a Koyo Click from AutomationDirect. Once you have navigated to the preceding link, this will land you on...