Scenario You have been contracted to conduct a penetration test of a medium-sized DoD contractor with offices in San Diego and Washington, DC. The organization has 75 employees. They mostly use Windows with a few Linux servers. All of their IT infrastructures are hosted on-premise. Social engineering is authorized. Penetration Testing Frameworks Explore one of the two pentest frameworks listed below. Penetration Testing Execution Standard (http://www.pentest-standard.org/index.php/Main_Page) Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM) (http://www.pen-tests.com/open-source-security-testing-methodology-manual-osstmm.html) Write a paper that: Describes the framework and how it can be used. OR Discuss how you would use the pentest framework to conduct a penetration test of an organization based on the scenario below. For example, discuss some of the tools and methods listed here (http://www.pentest-standard.org/index.php/PTES_Technical_Guidelines#Intelligence_Gathering) that you would use to gather OSIINT on the target. Submission Requirements Submit as a Word document in this format: No cover/title page – just use a heading at the top of the page which has Course #/Title, Assignment Title (e.g., Week Four Writing Assignment), your name, and date 1-inch margins Single-spaced Standard font (e.g., Arial, Calibri, Times Roman) 12-pt font size only Page length: 5-8 pages APA format as demonstrated in this example: Apa_example_sixth_edition – Word Document (28 KB) Please use the following Grading Rubric for this assignment: Written Assignment Rubric – Word Document (48 KB)

