
Learn Social Engineering
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Key Features
Learn to implement information security using social engineering
Get hands-on experience of using different tools such as Kali Linux, the Social Engineering toolkit and so on
Practical approach towards learning social engineering, for IT security
Book DescriptionThis book will provide you with a holistic understanding of social engineering. It will help you to avoid and combat social engineering attacks by giving you a detailed insight into how a social engineer operates. Learn Social Engineering starts by giving you a grounding in the different types of social engineering attacks,and the damages they cause. It then sets up the lab environment to use different toolS and then perform social engineering steps such as information gathering. The book covers topics from baiting, phishing, and spear phishing, to pretexting and scareware. By the end of the book, you will be in a position to protect yourself and your systems from social engineering threats and attacks. All in all, the book covers social engineering from A to Z , along with excerpts from many world wide known security experts.What you will learn
Learn to implement information security using social engineering
Learn social engineering for IT security
Understand the role of social media in social engineering
Get acquainted with Practical Human hacking skills
Learn to think like a social engineer
Learn to beat a social engineer
Who this book is forThis book targets security professionals, security analysts, penetration testers, or any stakeholder working with information security who wants to learn how to use social engineering techniques. Prior knowledge of Kali Linux is an added advantage
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Content
Introduction to social engineering
The psychology of social engineering (mind tricks used)
Fundamentals of influence and persuasion
Information gathering
Targetting and Recon
Elicitation
Pretexting
The tools used in social engineering
Prevention and mitigation
Case studies of social engineering
Ask the Experts- Part 1
Ask the Experts - Part 2
Ask the Experts - Part 3
Ask the Experts- Part 4
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