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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

Summary

We have installed the Koyo Click programming software on our Windows 7 virtual machine. We have also wired our power supply to our Koyo Click PLC and powered it on. We have successfully configured the physical network of the Koyo Click PLC to communicate through the ESXi vSwitch and to the network interface of the Windows 7 interface.

Wrapping up this chapter, we have a running Koyo CLICK PLC sitting in the Level 1: Process network segment, and we have installed and tested the CLICK programming software on the Windows 7 VM that is sitting in the Level 3: Operations network segment. We tested the network communication between the virtual PLC and the physical PLC as well. We added a physical adapter uplink to the ESXi virtual switch that we configured in the previous chapter.

Now we have a better understanding of how an automation engineer spends their time when they begin a project. Understanding how to orchestrate and install software will allow you to shape and hone...