Hi everyone! My name is Matt Lloyd Davies, and welcome to Specialized
Attacks: OT and ICS, a course dedicated to exploring attacks against
operational technology and industrial control systems.
I work as a cybersecurity specialist in the UK public sector, and I'm a
Pluralsight author with courses focusing on offensive security.
Have you ever wondered how hackers paralyzed a major US oil
pipeline or disrupted uranium enrichment in Iran?
Do you want to get a hands‑on, practical understanding of the techniques
hackers use when attacking industrial control systems?
Well, in this course, we'll work on getting you that knowledge.
I'll help you to learn about performing reconnaissance,
analyzing industrial network protocols, and conducting attacks
against operational technology, and all this with the aim of showing
you how weak cybersecurity and OT environments can cause major
disruption to industrial operations.
By the end of this course, you'll understand the challenges associated with
performing offensive operations in OT environments, and you'll be able to use
the ICS Cyber Kill Chain to plan and conduct attacks against OT and ICS.
Before beginning the course, you should be familiar with basic cybersecurity
and IT terminology and have some experience of applying basic security tools,
such as NMAP and Wireshark. Knowledge of Python scripting is a bonus, but not
essential.
Following this course, you should feel comfortable diving into other
specialized attacks and penetration testing courses at Pluralsight to
increase your depth of knowledge and broaden your skill set.
I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn more about cybersecurity with the
Specialized Attacks: OT and ICS course here at Pluralsight.