Social Engineering Penetration Testing: Executing Social Engineering Pen Tests, Assessments and Defense
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (891 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0124201245 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 390 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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This book goes beyond the art and that is what makes it a must-read." --Computing Reviews"will help you understand the many tricks and approaches to this most powerful of hacking processes. Andit will enable you to integrate social engineering within the overall framework of your penetration testing services." -Network Security, Nov 2014. "art depends on technique here,and that is the book’s main focus: the techniques of these con artists
RandomStorm has offices in UK, US, Canada, Jordan and UAE.Richard is a Senior Security Engineer for RandomStorm and is involved in the conducting penetration testing and social engineering assessments for clients across all verticals. Andrew has authored several infosec titles for McGraw Hill and Cisco Press. . Andrew has over 20 years experience in IT with recent years focused on Internet security, offering board-level consultancy to numerous enterprise customers wit
Now, Social Engineering Penetration Testing gives you the practical methodology and everything you need to plan and execute a social engineering penetration test and assessment. You will gain fascinating insights into how social engineering techniquesincluding email phishing, telephone pretexting, and physical vectors can be used to elicit information or manipulate individuals into performing actions that may aid in an attack. Social engineering attacks target the weakest link in an organization's securityhuman beings. The book shows you how to use widely available open-source tools to conduct your pen tests, then walks you through the practical steps to improve defense measures in response to test results.Understand how to plan and execute an effective social engineering assessment Learn how to configure and use the open-source tools available for the social engineer Identify parts of an assessment that will most benefit time-critical engagements Learn how to design target scenarios, create plausible attack situations, and support various attack vectors with technology Crea