The fundamentals of SCADA

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is required for controlling activities in dams, power grid stations, oil refineries, large server control services, and so on.

SCADA systems are built for highly specific tasks, such as controlling the level of dispatched water, managing the gas lines, controlling the electricity power grid to monitor power in a particular city, and various other operations.

Analyzing security in SCADA systems

In this section, we will discuss how we can breach the security of SCADA systems. We have plenty of frameworks that can test SCADA systems, but discussing them will push us beyond the scope of this book. Therefore, keeping it simple, we will restrict our discussion to SCADA exploitation only, carried out using Metasploit.

The fundamentals of testing SCADA

Let us understand the basics of exploiting SCADA systems. SCADA systems can be compromised using a variety of exploits in Metasploit, which were added recently to the framework...