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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 4: Open Source Ninja

This chapter will take you, the reader, through the art of Google-Fu, researching a company, facility, process, control, contract, or other form of publicly shared information. This allows you to understand how to obtain as much information pre-engagement as possible. The important part is that time and time again, employees like to publish information about their organization. Information that is not normally shared by a company can be items such as firewalls used for segmentation, endpoint protection, network access control (NAC) information, intrusion detection system (IDS) products implemented, and many more revealing strategies. However, with a drive to be ever more connected, websites such as LinkedIn can reveal what an organization may be utilizing.

Now that we have gleaned some amazing details about the organization that we are going after, we can ask the question: What is the side load? If we know the company is Rockwell, can we create accounts...