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Re: Social Engineering Pentest

Subject: Re: Social Engineering Pentest
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:26:16 +0200 (ora solare Europa occidentale)
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Paul Melson wrote:

The thing about SE - in my opinion, anyway - is that testing it in any meaningful way requires that you have something to test against.

I wholeheartedly agree. The upcoming OSSTMM 3.0 [1] will thoroughly cover testing of the Human Security channel. Here's a short quote on this topic:


"This channel covers the involvement of people, primarily the operating personnel within the target scope or framework. While some services consider this simply as 'social engineering', the true compliance objective of security testing in this channel is personnel security awareness testing and gap measurement to the required security standard outlined in company policy, industry regulations, and/or regional legislation".

[1] http://www.isecom.org/osstmm/

Cheers,

--
Marco Ivaldi, OPST
Red Team Coordinator      Data Security Division
@ Mediaservice.net Srl    http://mediaservice.net/


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