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Learn Social Engineering

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Product type Book

Published in Apr 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788837927

Pages 566 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Penetration Testing

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Social Engineering

2. The Psychology of Social Engineering – Mind Tricks Used

3. Influence and Persuasion

4. Information Gathering

5. Targeting and Recon

6. Elicitation

7. Pretexting

8. Social Engineering Tools

9. Prevention and Mitigation

10. Case Studies of Social Engineering

11. Ask the Experts – Part 1

12. Ask the Experts – Part 2

13. Ask the Experts – Part 3

14. Ask the Experts – Part 4

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Sami Lahio

Sami Laiho is one of the world's leading professionals in Windows and security. Sami has been working with and teaching OS troubleshooting, management, and security for more than 20 years. Sami's session was evaluated as the best session at TechEd North America, Europe, and Australia in 2014, and the Nordic Infrastructure Conference in 2016 and 2017, and the Best External Speaker at Ignite 2017. Sami is also an author at PluralSight and the newly appointed conference chair at the TechMentor conference.

I've been teaching and implementing highly technical security measures for more than two decades but time after time I see breaches happen mostly because of the simple act of social engineering.

Sometimes it's physical security and procedures that fail, such as the hotel in Oslo where I went a few years ago. I got a key card from the reception and...

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