ICS/SCADA Penetration Testing
Our ICS and SCADA penetration testing services simulate realistic cyberattacks to identify vulnerabilities in industrial control environments, focusing on critical components like Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs).
Benefits of SCADA Penetration Testing
Our Approach
We use a risk-driven, operations safe approach to identify real world attack paths across SCADA and OT environments. By emulating realistic threats with minimal operational impact, delivering clear, prioritized actions to strengthen resilience, detection, and system reliability.
Engagement Planning & Safety
Sign legal and contractual Rules of Engagement (scope, permitted tests, critical systems, maintenance windows). Conduct a pre-engagement workshop with operations, control engineers, and IT to define safety constraints, emergency contacts, and rollback procedures. Establish “stop conditions” and fail-safe mechanisms (immediate rollback, kill switches).
Reconnaissance & Threat Modeling
Perform asset inventory, protocol fingerprinting, and identification of asset owners and vendor/remote access channels. Develop a logical threat model mapping realistic attack paths (external attacker, remote vendor compromise, rogue insider, supply chain). Create prioritized attack trees aligned to safety, availability, confidentiality, and reputational impact.
Protocol & Device-Level Security Testing
Analyze industrial protocols and device configurations for insecure services, weak authentication, and exposed unsafe commands.
Network & Segmentation Assessments
Evaluate OT/ICS and IT network boundaries, remote access controls, and segmentation strength to identify misconfigurations or trust paths that could enable lateral movement across zones.