Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security Author: Christopher Hadnagy Paul Kelly F. Paul Ekman | Language: English | ISBN:
1118608577 | Format: PDF
Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security Description
Learn to identify the social engineer by non-verbal behavior
Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security focuses on combining the science of understanding non-verbal communications with the knowledge of how social engineers, scam artists and con men use these skills to build feelings of trust and rapport in their targets. The author helps readers understand how to identify and detect social engineers and scammers by analyzing their non-verbal behavior. Unmasking the Social Engineer shows how attacks work, explains nonverbal communications, and demonstrates with visuals the connection of non-verbal behavior to social engineering and scamming.
- Clearly combines both the practical and technical aspects of social engineering security
- Reveals the various dirty tricks that scammers use
- Pinpoints what to look for on the nonverbal side to detect the social engineer
Sharing proven scientific methodology for reading, understanding, and deciphering non-verbal communications, Unmasking the Social Engineer arms readers with the knowledge needed to help protect their organizations.
- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 17, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1118608577
- ISBN-13: 978-1118608579
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
The Good:
The book covers a wide array of topics including nonverbal communications, decoding body language, deciphering the science behind it all and then how to put it all together. Hadnagy seems to have taken the extra efforts to make sure that everything in the book is grounded in hard science (and it shows). Each chapter is sprinkled with real life examples of the topics with what worked and what failed on that engagement. The information is not just about body language and how to decode it; it is applied directly to the art of social engineering!
The Bad:
I have read most of the books that were referenced in this book, which made some of the underlining science a bit boring and mostly review. This isn’t really bad; perhaps more of a heads up than anything else.
Summary:
This book is written in such a way that it’s an easy read from end to end as well as a great reference book on the subject. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in social engineering. This is a must read for anyone starting out to the seasoned pros.
By Jaime Filson
"Unmasking the Social Enginner: The Human Element of Scurity" is very well written and illustrated, with current information. I couldn't put the book down. As a Security Engineer, I can see other professions needing to read this book and understand how to read peoples reactions and feelings. I thought, the scenarios that Chris discussed where very relevant and I have seen myself build empathy with targets and have gotten information that I was looking for but never understood "the why" on how it worked. Now I understand. I have even started noticing people around me and have picked up on visual queues. Thanks Chris for another amazing book.
By Peter J. Fellini
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