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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

Understanding Google-Fu

Google has to be one of the most notable search engines on the market. I personally used WebCrawler back in the Netscape days. I remember hearing that phrase Did you google it? for the first time in 2002 while I was fixing someone's PalmPilot. It might be a foregone conclusion that everyone reading this content has encountered the Google search engine at some point in their career. With that said, I am still going to relay some nuggets of truth: the Google search engine is a giant indexer, basically crawling the internet and documenting and historizing the data that it encounters. Now, this next statistic is purely speculative and has no quantifiable evidence; however, I am pretty confident that 99% of Google users have never really embraced the advanced features that Google has to offer.

Google dorking or Google hacking is simply a method of using Google's advanced search features to glean sensitive details from the internet. Combining and stringing...