Chapter 4

Network Analysis

Analyzing people’s networks is incredibly valuable because it helps you gain a solid handle on common connections.

Keywords

Social trust; zero-day; social engineering

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Network analysis is also interesting when targeting a specific organization. For example, if we wanted to target Microsoft as an organization, it’s really easy for us to find a lot of information on Microsoft’s employees.

On the top right of the slide, we took a screenshot from LinkedIn and all we did was search for Microsoft as an employer. It tells us about over 120,000 employees work for Microsoft and lists them on LinkedIn, which is a fantastic starting ...

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