Leyla Aliyeva is passionate about security, with a broad knowledge of IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and public management. She is well known for her dedication to work and also as the founder and director of IT Female Club Azerbaijan, being nowadays one of the most respected women in the IT field in her country. Her experience with information security began at the State Oil Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the Information Security department. Now she works as the head advisor in the Cyber Security Service under the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Her duties are related to incident handling and incident response, examination, analysis, processing, and monitoring of threats and attacks, education and awareness of the public sector, and investigation of cybersecurity incidents. She has been involved...
Learn Social Engineering
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)
Preface
Free Chapter
Introduction to Social Engineering
The Psychology of Social Engineering – Mind Tricks Used
Influence and Persuasion
Information Gathering
Targeting and Recon
Elicitation
Pretexting
Social Engineering Tools
Prevention and Mitigation
Case Studies of Social Engineering
Ask the Experts – Part 1
Ask the Experts – Part 2
Ask the Experts – Part 3
Ask the Experts – Part 4
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