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

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788395151

Length 456 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Pascal Ackerman

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Industrial Control Systems FREE CHAPTER

2. Insecure by Inheritance

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

ICS device patching

Device patching involves installing the latest firmware and software releases for your ICS devices on a consistent basis and within a reasonable time after such updates get released.

Always get your software, firmware, patches, and manuals from reputable sources, such as the ICS device manufacturer's website.

Check if your ICS vendor offers cryptographically signed firmware versions for their devices. As an example of this, Rockwell Automation decided to start signing all their modules' firmware images for their ControlLogix platform, starting with revision 20 of their ControlLogix product line. What this means is that the controller will refuse to accept flashing to a firmware image unless it has a valid digital signature. This feature prevents installing and running tampered-with firmware.

New firmware images, OSes, and patches to ICS devices should...

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Authors (1)

Pascal Ackerman

Pascal Ackerman is a seasoned industrial security professional with a degree in electrical engineering and over 20 years of experience in industrial network design and support, information and network security, risk assessments, pentesting, threat hunting, and forensics. After almost two decades of hands-on, in-the-field, and consulting experience, he joined ThreatGEN in 2019 and is currently employed as managing director of threat services and research. His passion lies in analyzing new and existing threats to ICS environments and he fights cyber adversaries both from his home base and while traveling the world with his family as a digital nomad. Pascal wrote the previous edition of this book and has been a reviewer and technical consultant of many security books.

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