---
pattern_id: pattern_isf
applicable_symptoms: [isf]
domain: Systems_Compute
---

# ICS/SCADA devices lack security hardening, making them vulnerable to remote exploitation via standard protocols like Modbus, S7comm, and Profinet.

**Domain**: `Systems_Compute`

## Fix

Use ISF framework to automate penetration testing of ICS devices: run exploit modules (e.g., s7_300_400_plc_control for start/stop, profinet_set_ip for IP config) and scanner modules (e.g., profinet_dcp_scan, vxworks_6_scan) to identify and validate vulnerabilities.

## Anti-pattern

Manual testing of ICS security without a structured exploitation framework leads to incomplete coverage and inconsistent results.

## Cross-domain analogies

- **Perception_Vision** → Cross-view consistency enforcement via lightweight augmentation to harden protocol parsing against injection attacks.
  - related fix: Panoramic Augmentation (AUG): a lightweight, plug-and-play data augmentation block combining cross-view transformations and semantic alignment to enforce BEV-panoramic feature consistency during training, with no trainable parameters.
- **Planning_Decision** → Use lane-graph-like hierarchical partitioning to segment ICS network zones, bridging device-level protocols with topological security boundaries.
  - related fix: Use lane graph connectivity to partition the environment into hierarchically organized regions, bridging object-level maps with topological structure.
- **Learning_Training** → Apply dropout-like random deactivation of protocol layers to prevent co-adapted exploit chains.
  - related fix: Apply dropout operations at multiple feature scales (activations, channels, spatial regions, entire feature maps) to regularize training.

## Patch

```diff
--- isf.before.py
+++ isf.after.py
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
-# --- BEFORE (vulnerable to the symptom below) ---

+# --- AFTER (ROSCLAW heuristic graft) ---

 # Symptom: ICS/SCADA devices lack security hardening, making them vulnerable to remote exploitation via standard protocols like Modbus, S7comm, and Profinet.

+# Fix    : Use ISF framework to automate penetration testing of ICS devices: run exploit modules (e.g., s7_300_400_plc_control for start/stop, profinet_set_ip for IP config) and scanner modules (e.g., profinet_dcp_scan, vxworks_6_scan) to identify and validate vulnerabilities.

+# Avoid  : Manual testing of ICS security without a structured exploitation framework leads to incomplete coverage and inconsistent results.

```
