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Industrial Cybersecurity

Industrial Cybersecurity

By : Pascal Ackerman
4.8 (12)
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Industrial Cybersecurity

Industrial Cybersecurity

4.8 (12)
By: Pascal Ackerman

Overview of this book

With industries expanding, cyber attacks have increased significantly. Understanding your control system’s vulnerabilities and learning techniques to defend critical infrastructure systems from cyber threats is increasingly important. With the help of real-world use cases, this book will teach you the methodologies and security measures necessary to protect critical infrastructure systems and will get you up to speed with identifying unique challenges.Industrial cybersecurity begins by introducing Industrial Control System (ICS) technology, including ICS architectures, communication media, and protocols. This is followed by a presentation on ICS (in) security. After presenting an ICS-related attack scenario, securing of the ICS is discussed, including topics such as network segmentation, defense-in-depth strategies, and protective solutions. Along with practical examples for protecting industrial control systems, this book details security assessments, risk management, and security program development. It also covers essential cybersecurity aspects, such as threat detection and access management. Topics related to endpoint hardening such as monitoring, updating, and anti-malware implementations are also discussed.
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How to go about defending an ICS?


Looking at all these restrictions and requirements, one starts to appreciate the complexity of defending ICS networks. Implementing straight up IT security practices will not cut it as we just discovered. They are often too intrusive or just not feasible. So how do we go about securing the ICS?

One defensive strategy that has been used extensively for ICS networks is security by obscurity. The idea is that by hiding or obscuring the ICS network, an attacker will not be able to find the network, and one cannot attack what one cannot find. To a degree, this strategy actually worked when the ICS protocols and communication media were proprietary and restrive or limited in what they could achieve. As ICS networks converge and start using commonplace technologies and protocols like Ethernet and Internet Protocol (IP), they are becoming more open in nature and easier to discover. Earlier, a controller would sit on a production floor and the only way to communicate...

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