Social-Engineering The Science of Influence - Volume 3

About the Book:
This is the Third Volume of this title amidst the Cybersecurity Essential Social Engeeniring series, updated for 2024.

From Human Hacking to Persuasion and Deception !

This beginner's E-book contain a comprehensive guide to getting started in Cybersecurity and Social Engineering. Are you a Social Engineer? If you are, then this book is for you !

At its core, social engineering is not a cyber attack. Instead, social engineering is all about the psychology of persuasion: It targets the mind like your old school grifter or con man. The aim is to gain the trust of targets, so they lower their guard, and then encourage them into taking unsafe actions such as divulging personal information or clicking on web links or opening attachments that may be malicious.

By reading this book you will discover and learn all the possible information, methods and techniques with regards to Social Engineering, Basic Cybersecurity and Ethical Hacking in general, why you should choose it, the need for cyber security and how can you be part of it and fill the cybersecurity talent gap bit by bit.This book will provide you with a global and systemic understanding of Social Engineering and its applications: in the context of information security, Social Engineering represent the use of deception to manipulate individuals into divulging confidential or personal information that may be used for fraudulent purposes.As Networks and Systems can be hacked, but they can also be protected. Furthermore, this book will help you to avoid and combat social engineering attacks which relies on human fault and psychological weaknesses to gain access to sensitive spaces, by giving you a detailed insight into how a social engineer work and operate.

By the end of the book, you will be able to protect yourself and your systems from social engineering threats and attacks!

Ethical - Hacker experts follow four key protocol concepts:
• Stay legal. Obtain proper approval before accessing and performing a security assessment.
• Define the scope. Determine the scope of the assessment so that the ethical hacker’s work remains legal and within the organization’s approved boundaries.
• Report vulnerabilities. Notify the organization of all vulnerabilities discovered during the assessment. Provide remediation advice for resolving these vulnerabilities.
• Respect data sensitivity. Depending on the data sensitivity, ethical hackers may have to agree to a non-disclosure agreement, in addition to other terms and conditions required by the assessed organization.


Key Features:
• Learn how to implement information security using social engineering
• Learn how social engineering works for IT security
Understand the purpose of the human mind and social media in social engineering
• Get acquainted with Practical Human hacking skills

Learn how to think like a social engineer
• Get hands-on experience of using different tools such as Kali Linux, the Social Engineering toolkit and so on

Practical approach towards learning social engineering, for the general public and IT security!

In short, this guide contains all the knowledge needed for assessing the security of computer systems by looking for weaknesses and vulnerabilities in target systems through Social Engineering, using the same knowledge and tools as a malicious hacker, but in a lawful and legitimate manner to assess the security posture of a target system.
• About the author: Fabrice Raphael - Trapani is a french jurist and legal expert in IT law who graduated from faculty of Law University Lyon 2-Lumière.

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