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Learn Social Engineering

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Learn Social Engineering

Overview of this book

This 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.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Social engineering case study - Keepnet labs phishing simulation

Cybercriminals know many doors to open for many other types of attacks, or exploitations of vulnerabilities. Therefore, as a role-based approach to security awareness education, phishing simulations and training are important to any organization that will be an integral part of overall security awareness education and training programs. Phishing simulation can help organizations to deliver the right training to the right people at the right time, considering that colleagues or employees have become the weak link in the cybersecurity chain thanks for phishing.

Keepnet Labs' phishing simulation is important owing to the fact that it basically has selected the human element as the baseline.

Keepnet Labs is a cybersecurity awareness firm that has developed a suite of cybersecurity awareness and defense products...