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Which of the following is a downside of automated pen testing?
It's usually more expensive than other types of pen testing
It generates less network traffic than other types of pen testing
It's unable to properly test for physical and social engineering vulnerabilities
It's usually more time consuming than other types of pen testing
Automated pen testing is unable to properly test for physical and social engineering vulnerabilities. Regarding all of the other options, the opposite is true. Automated pen testing is usually cheaper and quicker, but it shouldn't completely replace pen testing done by human beings. False positives and false negatives can become problematic, and many types of vulnerabilities can be overlooked. This in incorrect APT can detect social engineering - RAPID7. (EDIT: In order for automated tools to "detect" social engineering attempts like a human on the other end of a phone might, they'd have to be intimately familiar with the concepts used in social engineering. Fear, trust, responsibility, emotions, and all the human "tells" that dictate when behaviors apply to a situation. And in order for an automated tool to do that, it would have to pass the Turing test. When Cleverbot can't even do that, I HIGHLY doubt it's possible of a script such as might be packaged with Kali Linux.)
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