Steps of social engineering penetration testing

Penetration testing simulates a black hat hacker attack in order to evaluate the security posture of a company for deploying the required safeguard. Penetration testing is a methodological process, and it goes through well-defined steps. There are many types of penetration testing:

• White box pentesting
• Black box pentesting 
• Grey box pentesting 

To perform a social engineering penetration test, you need to follow the following steps: