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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

Installing Wireshark

After some soulful debate, I decided to move this section to the beginning of this chapter. I had planned it to be in the following chapter, but after reviewing this, I felt that it flowed nicely with the plans ahead. That being said, let's jump right into it. Wireshark is the de facto tool that's used by network engineers and security personnel alike to monitor all the bits of data moving through the network. When an issue arises, the first thing the individual or team does is open their laptop and start up Wireshark. I cannot emphasize this enough; Wireshark is fundamentally one of the most important tools that is used by the security industry and ironically, people seldom qualify it as a security tool. Wireshark is an absolute must for the proverbial tool bag that you are assembling for a pentesting engagement.

Go to https://www.wireshark.org/#download to be taken to Wireshark's stable release section. At the time of writing, this stable release...