Vulnerability Discovery: Tips for Surviving
Shares practical survival tips and methodologies for researching and disclosing vulnerabilities in industrial systems.
Summary
Claroty security researchers Doli Yardeni and Lemley present defensive lessons learned from discovering and remediating critical vulnerabilities in industrial control systems and operational technology networks in the ICS Village [00:01, 00:03].
The researchers examine industrial data historian architectures, showing how proprietary industrial network protocols interface with corporate business networks through web-based supervisory applications [04:51]. Using a case study of vulnerabilities in OSIsoft PI Web API systems [10:43], they demonstrate cross-site scripting (XSS) and server-side request injection risks, emphasizing rigorous Content Security Policy (CSP) implementation [19:35] and coordinated vulnerability disclosure with industrial automation vendors [23:54].
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