Chapter 1, Introduction to Social Engineering, is an overview of social engineering. This gives an outline of the social engineering framework, the steps to follow, and a brief discussion of some of the tools used.
Chapter 2, The Psychology of Social Engineering – Mind Tricks Used, explains the mind tricks used in social engineering to effectively bring a target's brain under the control of the social engineer.
Chapter 3, Influence and Persuasion, gives an overview of manipulation and reality altering tactics.
Chapter 4, Information Gathering, provides ways to gather information about a target.
Chapter 5, Targeting and Recon, discusses whom to target and the best means of doing so.
Chapter 6, Elicitation, explains how to draw people out and stimulate them to take a path of a behavior you want.
Chapter 7, Pretexting, discusses assuming different faces and become someone who is trustable by a target.
Chapter 8, Social Engineering Tools, provides the toolset that make social engineers successful, that is, the software and phone-based tools used.
Chapter 9, Prevention and Mitigation, shows famous successful social engineering cases, how they were done, and the techniques that were used.
Chapter 10, Case Studies of Social Engineering, is a collation of case studies belonging to the field of social engineering.
Chapter 11, Ask the Experts – Part 1, this is the section where world wide known experts like Troy Hunt, Jonathan C. Trull, Marcus Murray and Hasain Alshakarti, Emre Tinaztepe, Milad Aslaner share their field experience about Social Engineering.
Chapter 12, Ask the Experts – Part 2, this is the section where world wide known experts like Paula Januszkiewicz, Şükrü Durmaz and Raif Sarıca, Andy Malone, Chris Jackson, Daniel Weis share their field experience about Social Engineering.
Chapter 13, Ask the Experts – Part 3, this is the section where world wide known experts like Raymond P.L. Comvalius, George Dobrea, Dr. Mitko Bogdansoki, Ozan Ucar and Orhan Sari, and Sami Lahio share their field experience about Social Engineering.
Chapter 14, Ask the Experts – Part 4, this is the section where world wide known experts like Oguzhan Filizlibay, Yalkin Demirkaya, Leyla Aliyeva, Aryeh Goretsky, and Dr. Islam, MD Rafiqul, and Dr. Erdal Ozkaya share their field experience about Social Engineering.