Re: Social Engineering Formal Methodology

From: Will Wilkinson (Will@lancre.net)
Date: 03/08/02 

Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 02:16:05 +0000
To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
From: Will Wilkinson <Will@lancre.net>

In message <20020307080844.49098.qmail@web20802.mail.yahoo.com>, Ilici
Ramirez <ilici_ramirez@yahoo.com> writes
>
>Hi,
>
>There are many resources available on the web about
>Social Engineering (including NLP - my new hobby) -
>you can find them on google very quickly. But most of
>them contain "what is SE", some examples and
>references to other sites with the same stuff.
>
>Anyway ,as far as my research has gone I could not
>find any paper on A FORMAL METHODOLOGY for conducting
>Social Engineering Assessments.
>
>In any audit if you do not follow a methodology you
>cannot guarantee for quality of the work.
>
>So, could anybody give us an advice?
>
>Best Regards,
>Ilici R
It is covered in the Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual
<http://ideahamster.org/osstmm-description.htm>.

HTH

Will 

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