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Building an Open Source Operational Technology Pentesting Platform: Lessons from LINICS
May 21, 2026
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This paper details the process of architecting and releasing LINICS, an open-source platform designed to provide necessary pentesting and security analysis capabilities for Operational Technology (OT) systems, which currently lack such dedicated tools.
Abstract
More Like ThisInformation 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.