Conduct social engineering

- Social engineering is a technique security assessors…can employ to trick end users into divulging information…they shouldn't.…This information often includes user names and passwords…as well as other sensitive data such as credit card…or social security numbers.…Social engineering can be conducted in a…variety of ways including in person or over the phone…through simple lying.…Via malicious websites using a technique called phishing.…Via email using phishing or another technique…called spear phishing,…and via text or instant messages.…

The purpose of conducting social engineering…during a security assessment is to test how effective…an organization's security awareness training is.…If an assessor is successful in getting a user…to share information they shouldn't,…this should be a finding in the assessor's final report.…The recommended remediation could be to improve…user security training or make it more frequent.…On the other hand, if an assessor attempts…social engineering tactics and fails to obtain…unauthorized information,…