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A remarkable and insightful book about information security – the human side – from Ian Mann of ECSC Ltd (www.ecsc.co.uk).
Information security is about people, yet in most organisations protection remains focused on technical countermeasures. The human element is crucial in the majority of successful attacks on systems and attackers are rarely required to find technical vulnerabilities, hacking the human is usually sufficient.
Hacking the Human: Social Engineering Techniques and Security Countermeasures, by Ian Mann. Published: November 2008, by Gower, 266 pages, hardback. ISBN: 978-0-566-08773-8. Price (bought online) £54.
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