The Art of Attack: Attacker Mindset for Security Professionals 1st Edition

Elevate your ethical social engineering and hacking skills with a proven set of techniques

Unethical social engineers use deception to manipulate people into doing things contrary to their best interests. Whether this means attempting to discover passwords or gaining access to data, assets or physical locations, they use dishonest techniques to their benefit. Ethical social engineers and hackers, on the other hand, are paid by companies to use social engineering and attacker mindset (AMs) to legitimately probe systems, processes, and people for weaknesses so those vulnerabilities can be addressed, and future damages prevented.

In The Art of Attack, accomplished social engineer and physical pentester Maxie Reynolds delivers an inside look at the attacker mindset, how best to use it and how to defend against it. The book explores the principles of the attacker mindset, including where to start an attack, persistence, non-linear thinking, observation techniques as well as the skills and laws of the mindset. It delves into processes, how to engage in reconnaissance and privilege escalation, and how to obtain redundant access, all without being detected.

The Art of Attack is an invaluable resource for social engineers, pentesters, red teams and anyone in cybersecurity. You’ll discover how to:

• Discover strategic tools you need to build your attacker mindset, including attack formation, process, recon, and more.
  • Utilize the skills and laws of attacker mindset.
  • Detect the unique tells of an attack and how to avoid becoming a victim of one.

Elevate your ethical social engineering and hacking skills with a proven set of techniques

Unethical social engineers use deception to manipulate people into doing things contrary to their best interests. Whether this means attempting to discover passwords or gaining access to data, assets or physical locations, they use dishonest techniques to their benefit. Ethical social engineers and hackers, on the other hand, are paid by companies to use social engineering and attacker mindset (AMs) to legitimately probe systems, processes, and people for weaknesses so those vulnerabilities can be addressed, and future damages prevented.

In The Art of Attack, accomplished social engineer and physical pentester Maxie Reynolds delivers an inside look at the attacker mindset, how best to use it and how to defend against it. The book explores the principles of the attacker mindset, including where to start an attack, persistence, non-linear thinking, observation techniques as well as the skills and laws of the mindset. It delves into processes, how to engage in reconnaissance and privilege escalation, and how to obtain redundant access, all without being detected.

The Art of Attack is an invaluable resource for social engineers, pentesters, red teams and anyone in cybersecurity. You’ll discover how to:

• Discover strategic tools you need to build your attacker mindset, including attack formation, process, recon, and more.
  • Utilize the skills and laws of attacker mindset.
  • Detect the unique tells of an attack and how to avoid becoming a victim of one.