September 17, 2025

Pentesting Industrial Control Systems: An ethical hacker's guide to analyzing, compromising, mitigating, and securing industrial processes

28 minutes

An ethical hacker's guide to the unique challenges of analyzing, compromising, mitigating, and securing industrial processes. It offers a practical, hands-on approach to understanding and exploiting vulnerabilities in industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) environments. The text covers setting up a virtual lab, open-source intelligence gathering, network scanning and analysis with tools like Nmap and Wireshark, exploiting common industrial protocols, and techniques for privilege escalation and lateral movement. A significant portion also addresses reporting findings and recommending security improvements, including understanding and bypassing intrusion detection systems (IDS) and leveraging frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK for industrial cybersecurity. The author's extensive experience in automation and industrial cybersecurity informs the book's focus on real-world scenarios and practical application.

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