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Industrial Cybersecurity

You're reading from   Industrial Cybersecurity Efficiently monitor the cybersecurity posture of your ICS environment

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800202092
Length 800 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Pascal Ackerman Pascal Ackerman
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: ICS Cybersecurity Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Introduction and Recap of First Edition FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: A Modern Look at the Industrial Control System Architecture 4. Chapter 3: The Industrial Demilitarized Zone 5. Chapter 4: Designing the ICS Architecture with Security in Mind 6. Section 2:Industrial Cybersecurity – Security Monitoring
7. Chapter 5: Introduction to Security Monitoring 8. Chapter 6: Passive Security Monitoring 9. Chapter 7: Active Security Monitoring 10. Chapter 8: Industrial Threat Intelligence 11. Chapter 9: Visualizing, Correlating, and Alerting 12. Section 3:Industrial Cybersecurity – Threat Hunting
13. Chapter 10: Threat Hunting 14. Chapter 11: Threat Hunt Scenario 1 – Malware Beaconing 15. Chapter 12: Threat Hunt Scenario 2 – Finding Malware and Unwanted Applications 16. Chapter 13: Threat Hunt Scenario 3 – Suspicious External Connections 17. Section 4:Industrial Cybersecurity – Security Assessments and Intel
18. Chapter 14: Different Types of Cybersecurity Assessments 19. Chapter 15: Industrial Control System Risk Assessments
20. Chapter 16: Red Team/Blue Team Exercises 21. Chapter 17: Penetration Testing ICS Environments 22. Section 5:Industrial Cybersecurity – Incident Response for the ICS Environment
23. Chapter 18: Incident Response for the ICS Environment 24. Chapter 19: Lab Setup 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Why ICS environments are easy targets for attackers

Let's quickly discuss why ICS make such an easy target. This is relevant because it portrays some of the methodologies and angles used in pentesting these environments. To summarize, ICSes are considered easy targets for the following reasons:

  • By design, an ICS is meant to be open in nature, easily accessible to the people working with them, and leave little in the way of barriers for systems to interconnect. This open nature often introduces common weaknesses in the system such as the following:

    - Default or easily guessable passwords (if there are passwords defined at all)

    - Default system configurations that allow us to easily connect to/share/access resources

    - User and process privileges that allow too much system access

    - Lacking or missing security controls

    Additionally, because security was not a design consideration for ICS or its components, security controls such as encryption, authentication, authorization, and...

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