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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What is needed to perform threat hunting exercises?

So, what does it take to perform a threat hunting exercise? The short answer to this question is information – information about your assets, the network connections that traverse between your assets, and the interactions users have with your assets. The more detailed the information is you have about these three aspects, the more successful your threat hunt will be.

Although the exact types of data and information needed for the job depend on the specifics of the threat hunt, having the following types of information readily available will help you get started in most scenarios. Along the way, additional information might be needed and will have to be obtained to keep the threat hunt exercise going or to expand its coverage.

Network traffic logs

Because we are dealing with networked systems and equipment that we are performing threat hunting exercises on, the foremost valuable information we should have at our disposal...