BSides Bristol 2024

Industrial control systems
2024-08-31 , Village 2

Interested in seeing how industrial control systems work and how secure they are? The ICS Village run by the University of Bristol's Cyber Security Group includes live demos and hands-on exercises of various attacks against ICS devices using our mobile demonstration units.


Industrial control systems, such as those controlling many aspects of critical infrastructure including energy, water and manufacturing, are increasingly the target of sophisticated cyber attacks. At the ICS village you can see practical attack demonstrations against real ICS devices, including demonstrations of attack scenarios which can cause physical processes to go wrong. Demonstrations include reconnaissance of ICS devices (and how Nmap can kill devices), the exploitation of programmable logic controllers and password cracking of human machine interfaces. As well as demonstrations, there will be a few hands-on activities for attendees to have a go at.