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Pentesting Industrial Control Systems

By : Paul Smith
Book Image

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

Experimenting with Shodan.io

As claimed by their home page, "Shodan is the world's first search engine for internet-connected devices." In the last two sections, we used different search tactics to gain a free insight into how an organization is structured and organized and how to expose any services that might be open to the public. This allowed us to build a profile for our customer relating to the industry they are operating in, the individuals who are employed by them, and—if we are lucky—some of the technologies they are using. In this section, we are going to dive deeper into the services and technology by using Shodan.io.

If you navigate to the following link, , you will see the search engine window, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.8 – Shodan.io search engine

Clicking on the Explore button will take us to the following screen:

Figure 4.9 – Exploring Shodan.io

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