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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

Investigating with ExploitDB

ExploitDB is a giant archive of shared discoveries pertaining to software flaws, exploits, and vulnerabilities. It allows for a community of security researchers and pentesters to share known compromises in an easily searchable format. Navigating to https://www.exploit-db.com, you will land on the home page and be presented with the latest documented vulnerabilities discovered, as seen in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.14 – ExploitDB

If you notice, on the right-hand side we have a search input field. Type SCADA and press Enter. At the time of the printing of this book, you will see 50 vulnerabilities related to various SCADA systems, as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 4.15 – SCADA vulnerabilities

As you can see on the screen, we have eight headings, which are outlined as follows:

  • Date: This is the date that the vulnerability was added to ExploitDB.
  • Download: This is...