Ditto this under Pretexting protection In fact the evaluation of the effectiveness of such employee training probably should include a follow up program of random spot checks outside the classroom after completion of the initial employee training in order to check on the resistance of a given randomly chosen student to various types of social engineering perhaps even designed to focus attention on any new wrinkle that might have arisen after the initial effort to develop the curriculum for such employee training Also the opening sentence of Pretexting protection could be rewritten as follows for improved clarity Pretexting sometimes referred to as social engineering occurs when someone lacking the proper authority attempts to gain access to personal nonpublic information through impersonation persuasion or other deceptive means