Even the most advanced security teams can do little to protect against the harm caused by a simple employee who clicks a malicious link, opens an email attachment, or reveals sensitive information during a phone call. This book will help you better understand the techniques behind social engineering attacks and learn how to thwart cybercriminals and attackers who take advantage of human weaknesses. Joe Gray, an award-winning social engineering expert, shares case studies, best practices , open source intelligence (OSINT) tools, attack templates, and reporting templates so companies can better protect themselves. He describes creative methods to trick users into giving them their credentials: using Python scripts and editing HTML files to clone a legitimate website. By learning how to gather information about your victims using advanced OSINT techniques, you will learn how to protect your organization from these types of threats.