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Daquan,What, according to you, are the necessary countermeasures for preventing social engineering and identity theft?

Social engineering pertains to methods and acts done to gain access to unauthorized areas, networks, systems and hardware by means of human interaction in lieu of technical means. Penetration testers are very skilled at this and without proper rules being in placed and members of an organization enforcing them, penetration testers are often successful. Even with firewalls, antivirus software and malware protection, a crafty penetration tester, social engineering tactics can be used to gain unauthorized access. To counter social engineering and identity theft, rules