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Industrial Cybersecurity

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

Endpoint protection software

A different set of defensive controls to aid in computer security comes in the form of endpoint protection software solutions that are installed locally but can be administered remotely. Through the use of policies and rules, restrictions can be enforced on network traffic, access to files, and execution of applications.

Some of the most common endpoint protection software solutions include the following:

Host-based firewalls
Anti-malware software
Application whitelisting software

Host-based firewalls

A host-based firewall is a piece of software installed and running on a single host that can restrict incoming (ingress) and outgoing (egress) network activity for that host only. The firewall software can prevent a host from getting infected by blocking access to the network port of potentially vulnerable services. This doesn't, however, prevent the compromise of a vulnerable service that isn't blocked by the firewall. Host-based firewalls have undergone many changes...

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Authors (1)

Pascal Ackerman

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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