Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Practice Question

OT-focused intrusions typically proceed more cautiously than IT intrusions because poorly planned actions can trigger safety shutdowns or equipment damage. After gaining a foothold on an engineering workstation, the recommended step is to perform device and logic enumeration: use the vendor's programming suite or protocol-aware discovery tools to locate PLCs and pull down their existing programs. Working with the ladder logic offline lets an attacker understand safety interlocks, process set points, and command structure before attempting any live manipulation. Launching a DoS, corrupting the historian, or sending unsolicited write coils to all PLCs are noisy, high-risk actions that violate the methodology's principle of maintaining system stability until precise control can be exercised.