The growing threat of advanced cyberattacks on critical infrastructure and industrial control systems poses a unique challenge to organizations. Government agents, terrorists, and organized crime increasingly target industrial systems, causing physical disruption to business operations and theft of intellectual property. In addition to destroying expensive equipment, disruptions to industrial control systems can also lead to the disruption of critical operations. These attacks, in turn, can result in massive costs and a loss of public trust in society.
- Industrial control systems include technologies such as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and distributed control systems (DCS), which are at the core of day-to-day operations in chemical processing infrastructure, oil and gas production, and other industries.
- These applications include railroad switches, SCADA monitors, and programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Infrastructure organizations that are critical to the economy and national security, from banking data centers to power grids and rail transit, use similar technologies.
- Many of these systems are increasingly connected to IT networks, which leaves them vulnerable to cyberattack.
- IT and OT are a customized combination of technology, information, and consulting services from cybersecurity experts that can enable industrial and manufacturing organizations to identify risks and proactively mitigate threats. We provide a comprehensive, non-invasive security solution for your entire Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) infrastructure.
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Our offensive team has deep experience and knowledge of control systems and understands the ICS and OT space. Our experts, who are familiar with Threat Intelligence and have an unparalleled understanding of attacker behaviors, perform advanced security testing and help you identify and contain threats in industrial networks.
- Because the Air-Gap network is separate from the global Internet, it has its own range of attacks, which are widespread and dangerous. Attacks based on Physical Media, Acoustic Electromagnetic, Magnetic, Electric, Optical, and Thermal have greatly increased cyber risks for industrial control systems. These attacks are implemented based on industrial and military networks and are particularly confidential.
- Also, human factors are the driving force behind Physical Media attacks, so raising awareness among human resources in the field of cybersecurity will be a principle. Also, if the hardware used is not properly structured, it can be a factor in the formation of an attack scenario.
- An industrial cyber attack always exploits zero-day and unpatched vulnerabilities, and this exploitation makes the attack much stronger and better. Therefore, endpoint security is one of the main factors of cyber defense, which is why red team experts strive to identify and expose the weaknesses and binary vulnerabilities of endpoints.
- In addition to operating system vulnerabilities, desktop software will always be subject to dynamic and static monitoring. Also, devices used in the network and their communication protocols can cause irreparable damage to industrial facilities if they have zero-day vulnerabilities.
Architectural Review
In the first step, the IT and OT architecture of the industrial complex must be thoroughly reviewed and visualized. Software and management systems, communication protocols, and industrial control devices (PLC) must also be reviewed and monitored so that, from a cybersecurity perspective, targeted penetration tests can be implemented on them and vulnerable areas can be identified. In this review, all communication arrangements and connected devices must be identified and scrutinized.
Device and Application Vulnerability Assessment
Software and hardware technologies used in industrial spaces must undergo a complete cybersecurity assessment. This assessment includes operating systems, active services in ports, databases, and management and control software, and is a detailed expert assessment of the discovery of zero-day vulnerabilities that can occur in both binary and web layers.
Network Vulnerability Assessment
The assessment of the industrial communication network itself has a list of vulnerabilities that must be fully investigated. For example, in the architecture of Air-Gap networks, there are always unique scenarios and threats that must be addressed separately. Also, the communication protocols that always interact with sensors and operational devices must undergo a complete cybersecurity review.
Industrial Penetration Testing
In industrial penetration testing, a team of experts always tries to examine all vulnerabilities in two ways: black box and white box. Here, the focus is on discovering vulnerabilities, not evaluating them. In this regard, the penetration testing process provides more comprehensive and complete steps for discovering vulnerabilities, which allows all devices and operating systems, including IIoT devices, to be tested.
Red Team Simulation
But the highest level of cyber security assessment of industrial complexes can be considered the red team simulation. The red team always tries to fully simulate the operational method of all cyber attack teams that have ever attacked industrial complexes, and to reveal the areas with problems and suitable conditions for the intruder. Among these simulations, the industrial cyber attack of the Stuxnet virus can be mentioned.
