Summary

During the course of this chapter, you have learned the fundamentals and key concepts of social engineering and how penetration testers can hack the human mind to obtain sensitive information. Furthermore, you have discovered various types of social engineering attacks and have explored various techniques to mitigate such types of threats. Lastly, you have explored various features of SET on Kali Linux to assist you in setting up various types of social engineering attacks.

I hope this chapter has been informative for you and is helpful in your journey as an aspiring penetration tester, learning how to simulate real-world cyberattacks to discover security vulnerabilities and perform exploitation using Kali Linux. In the next Chapter 15, Understanding Website Application Security, you will be discovering web application vulnerabilities and exploitation.