Our social engineering engagements are designed to identify and mitigate human vulnerabilities through realistic attack simulations, including email phishing attacks.
By exposing these vulnerabilities, we help you strengthen your overall security posture and build resilience against the most persistent threat vector.
Social engineering is one of the most effective attack vectors used by cybercriminals. By manipulating human psychology, attackers can bypass technical security controls and gain access to sensitive information or systems.
At Exploitr, we provide social engineering engagements that are designed to test your organisation’s resilience against these tactics. Our services include phishing simulations, vishing assessments, physical security testing, and SMS phishing (smishing) tests.
Each engagement is tailored to your specific needs and objectives, providing valuable insights into your employees’ awareness and response capabilities.
Our tailored phishing simulations test your employees’ susceptibility to email-based attacks, the most common vector for security breaches.
Each type of phishing campaign is designed to mimic real-world threats, providing valuable insights into your organisation’s security awareness and response capabilities.
Our security experts conduct telephone-based social engineering attempts to extract sensitive information, gain unauthorised access to credentials, and test adherence to operational processes.
These assessments help evaluate staff awareness of social manipulation techniques and provide insights into potential vulnerabilities in your organisation’s communication security.
We assess your organisation’s resilience against in-person social engineering through various test scenarios designed to simulate actual social engineering attacks. Our goal is to provide insights into your physical security posture and employee awareness.
Each engagement includes a detailed report with findings and recommendations for improving physical security measures.
With the increasing reliance on mobile devices, our smishing assessments test your staff’s ability to identify and properly respond to suspicious text messages.
These tests help evaluate employee awareness of mobile security threats and provide insights into potential areas for improvement.
Contact our team today to discuss how our social engineering engagements can strengthen your organisation's security posture and build resilience against the most persistent threat vector.Ready to Test Your Human Firewall?
Realistic Threat Simulation: Our engagements mirror the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by actual threat actors, providing an accurate assessment of your security posture against current attack methodologies.
Comprehensive Reporting: After each engagement, we provide a detailed report that includes:
Ethical Approach: We conduct all social engineering tests with the utmost professionalism and sensitivity. Our engagements are designed to educate and improve security posture, not to embarrass or penalise staff.
Experienced Practitioners: Our team includes social engineering experts with backgrounds in security operations and penetration testing, ensuring effective assessments that cover the breadth and depth of human vulnerabilities.
Continuous Improvement: We don’t just identify vulnerabilities, we provide actionable insights and support for building a security-aware culture that evolves with changing threats.
Our Platform: The Attack Surface Center provides a secure, collaborative environment for managing your penetration testing projects. You can track progress, access reports, and manage your assets and vulnerabilities in one place.
Social engineering is the practice of manipulating individuals to influence them to have a desired thought or cause an action. In the context of cybersecurity, this differs from psychological manipulation, as it is used to gain access to sensitive information or systems by exploiting human psychology. Social engineering attacks can take many forms, including phishing emails, vishing (voice phishing), and smishing (SMS phishing).
Our social engineering tests are designed to simulate real-world attacks while adhering to ethical guidelines. We work closely with your organisation to define the scope and objectives of each engagement. Our team then develops bespoke scenarios that reflect current threat landscapes and employee behaviours. After the engagement, we provide detailed reports with findings, analysis, and recommendations for improving security awareness and response capabilities.
Social engineering testing provides several benefits, including:
We recommend conducting social engineering tests at least annually, or more frequently if your organisation undergoes significant changes (e.g., new hires, policy updates, or access control system changes). Regular testing helps maintain a high level of security awareness and ensures that employees are prepared to recognise and respond to evolving social engineering threats.
If an employee falls for a social engineering test, we view it as an opportunity for learning and improvement. Our goal is not to embarrass or penalise staff, but to identify gaps in security awareness and provide targeted training. After each engagement, we can conduct debriefing sessions with affected employees to discuss the incident, explain the tactics used, and offer guidance on how to recognise and respond to similar threats in the future. This approach helps foster a culture of continuous improvement and resilience against social engineering attacks.