Laboratory Exercises to Accompany Industrial Control and Embedded Systems Security Curriculum Modules
Published in Yassine Maleh, Mohammad Shojafar, Ashraf Darwish, Abdelkrim Haqiq, Cybersecurity and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems, 2019
Guillermo A. Francia, Jay Snellen, Gretchen Richards
Industrial control system protocols range from wired to wireless. Wired protocols include Ethernet Industrial Protocol (Ethernet/IP), Common Industrial Protocol (CIP), Modbus, Modbus Transmission Control Protocol (Modbus/TCP), Distributed Network Protocol version 3 (DNP3), Process Field Bus (Profibus), DeviceNet, Controller Area Network (CAN), and Ethernet for Control Automation Technology (EtherCAT). With the ever-increasing risk that ICS is being subjected to, it is imperative that cybersecurity professionals gain a good understanding of the communication protocols with which these systems operate and the threats that exist in securing them. The laboratory exercises are focused on the analysis of network packets of various ICS protocols and the development of Python-based utility tools.