CRMay 21
Building an Open Source Operational Technology Pentesting Platform: Lessons from LINICS
arXiv:2605.225909.4Has Code
Predicted impact top 83% in CR · last 90 daysOriginality Synthesis-oriented
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Provides a practical tool for OT security professionals, but the work is primarily a platform release rather than a novel research contribution.
The authors built and released LINICS, an open-source pentesting platform for Operational Technology (OT), addressing the lack of such tools for industrial control systems security.
Information Technology (IT) security professionals have ready access to open-source platforms such as Kali Linux. But no such platform exists for Operational Technology (OT) that underpins Industrial Control Systems. We discuss experiences of architecting, building and releasing LINICS, an open-source platform for OT pentesting and security analysis.