Dan has been in the IT industry for over 20 years (since 1995), he has worked within government, charitable sectors, system integrators, businesses, and industry/infrastructure from all areas both in a technical and solution capacity, through to providing security services and security consulting. Currently, Dan is heading up the security team at Kiandra IT. As the red team leader, he performs and provides guidance to testers on penetration testing and security services and performs testing on some of the most secure environments in Australia.

Dan is also a regular on the speaker circuit and presents at various conferences and events on cyber security, cybercrime, hacking, and the darknet and has a number of published articles/media on security to his name.

Social engineering is defined as any act that influences a person to take action that may or may not be in their best interest, such as convincing people to reveal confidential information or to do something, to click on a link, to open an attachment, and so on.

Social engineering can be very easy and often yield great results.

Steve Riley has one of the oldest and best presentations out there on Defending layer 8 and I highly recommend it. Steve identifies the following types of exploits, which I can confirm work great for us on engagements all the time, and we have incorporated his presentation into our training for testers.