About the Author
Sharon Conheady is a director at First Defence Information Security where she specializes in social engineering. She has social engineered her way into dozens of organizations across the UK and abroad, including company offices, sports stadiums, government facilities, and more. Sharon has presented on social engineering at security conferences, including DEF CON, DeepSec, Recon, CONFidence, and InfoSec, and regularly leads training seminars on how to perform ethical social engineering tests and how to defend against social engineers. She graduated summa cum laude with a first class degree and gold medal in Computer Science, Linguistics, and French from Trinity College Dublin and an MSc in Information Security from Westminster ...

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