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Industrial Cybersecurity

You're reading from   Industrial Cybersecurity Efficiently secure critical infrastructure systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788395151
Length 456 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Pascal Ackerman Pascal Ackerman
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Preface 1. Industrial Control Systems 2. Insecure by Inheritance FREE CHAPTER 3. Anatomy of an ICS Attack Scenario 4. Industrial Control System Risk Assessment 5. The Purdue Model and a Converged Plantwide Ethernet 6. The Defense-in-depth Model 7. Physical ICS Security 8. ICS Network Security 9. ICS Computer Security 10. ICS Application Security 11. ICS Device Security 12. The ICS Cybersecurity Program Development Process

Endpoint protection software

A different set of defensive controls to aid in computer security comes in the form of endpoint protection software solutions that are installed locally but can be administered remotely. Through the use of policies and rules, restrictions can be enforced on network traffic, access to files, and execution of applications.

Some of the most common endpoint protection software solutions include the following:

  • Host-based firewalls
  • Anti-malware software
  • Application whitelisting software 

Host-based firewalls

A host-based firewall is a piece of software installed and running on a single host that can restrict incoming (ingress) and outgoing (egress) network activity for that host only. The firewall...

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