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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800202092

Length 800 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Pascal Ackerman

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

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

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Exercise – Adding an AlienVault OTX threat feed to Security Onion

As an example of what threat information can add to overall security monitoring effectiveness, we shall add a threat feed to our Security Onion deployment. As mentioned throughout this chapter, threat feeds, or IOC feeds, by themselves are not threat intelligence; however, adding a threat feed to your SIEM does allow you to perform some rudimentary threat intelligence activities.

As a source of threat IOC information, I have chosen the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange (OTX) service. The reason for this is that their threat feed is constantly updated, accurate, and includes many different sources of information and types of IOCs, but also because their online community and the forums that come with the free subscription to the OTX platform are extremely valuable once you decide to take threat intelligence a step further and want to proactively start mapping threats to your environment.

The AlienVault threat...