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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.

Beginner
1h 8m
(17)

Created by Stephen Haunts and Lars Klint

Last Updated Nov 03, 2022

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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.

Beginner
1h 8m
(17)

Created by Stephen Haunts and Lars Klint

Last Updated Nov 03, 2022

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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.

Play by Play: A Penetration Tester's Guide to Social Engineering
Beginner
1h 8m
(17)
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Stephen Haunts - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: A Penetration Tester's Guide to Social Engineering
Stephen Haunts
26 courses 4.2 author rating 4890 ratings

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.

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Lars Klint - Pluralsight course - Play by Play: A Penetration Tester's Guide to Social Engineering
Lars Klint
42 courses 4.3 author rating 1838 ratings

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.

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