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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

Setting up Koyo Click

I have a number of these different units, but I will be focusing on the model C0-10ARE-D, which is the Ethernet Basic PLC Unit. Once again, if you don't have access to a Koyo Click, you can use any other type or model of PLC and engineering software to follow along. The choice to use Koyo comes from the fact that it is one of the few controllers that I have spare that isn't wrapped up in a project. More importantly, however, this device is specifically used for the Ethernet communication port that comes with this PLC and the engineering software is free. Additionally, it leverages the discrete I/O to energize and de-energize coils and will help establish a correlation between real-world processes and equipment, and the equipment we will be simulating in our ICS lab.

By default, the Koyo Click comes with two native protocols:

  • Modbus
  • Ethernet/IP

If you remember from the previous chapter, the tools that we installed were focused on...