The Social Engineer's Playbook : a Practical Guide to Pretexting

Learn valuable elicitation techniques, such as: Bracketing, Artificial Ignorance, Flattery, Sounding Board and many other useful pretexting techniques.

Pretexting: The Social Engineer's Playbook book has over 10 established social engineering pretext "plays" to use and suit to your needs.

Elicitation: Elicitation is a technique used to discreetly gather information. It is a conversation with a specific purpose: collect information that is not readily available and do so without raising suspicion that specific facts are being sought.

Influencing: Likeability, Reciprocation, Scarcity, Concession, Obligation are among a few of the techniques covered used to influence and manipulate targets into complying with social engineering attempts.

Tools: Learn which tools can help you develop and carry out social engineering tests. An introduction to tools, such as: Social Engineering Toolkit (SET), Maltego, Google Dorks, clothing, cover/overt cameras and more.

Jeremiah Talamantes is the founder of RedTeam Security and the founder/principal security researcher for The Plugbot Project.

Jeremiah has nearly 20 years in the IT security industry. He has a Masters degree in Information Security & Assurance and an executive education from the University of Notre Dame, Mendoza School of Business.

Jeremiah is an active security researcher and an adjunct faculty member at Norwich University, College of Graduate Studies in Information Security & Assurance. He has held numerous leadership roles including CISO and expert consultant to several Fortune 500 companies. He is a CISSP, CCISO, CEH, CHFI and CCENT.