- Course
- Security
Play by Play: A Penetration Tester's Guide to Social Engineering
In this course, you’ll learn about basic and advanced techniques used in social engineering attacks.
What you'll learn
Play by Play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real time, unrehearsed, and unscripted. In this course, Play by Play: A Penetration Tester’s Guide to Social Engineering, Stephen Haunts and Lars Klint are going to delve into the shadowy world of social engineering. Learn about information gathering, pre-texting, and manipulation. By the end of this course, you’ll know a wide range of techniques that you can use to protect yourself and your company from a social engineering attack.
About the authors
Stephen Haunts is an experienced Software Developer and Leader who has worked across multiple business domains including Computer Games, Finance, and Healthcare Retail and Distribution. Stephen has worked in languages ranging from Assembler, various forms of BASIC, to C and C++, and then finding his love of C# and .NET.
Lars is an author, trainer, Microsoft MVP, community leader, authority on all things Windows Platform, and part time crocodile wrangler. He is heavily involved in the space of HoloLens and mixed reality, as well as a published Pluralsight author, freelance solution architect, and writer for numerous publications.