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Social Engineering

Your employees are the perimeter. Phishing, vishing, pretexting, and physical intrusion testing that measures how well your human layer holds up under real-world attack conditions.

Why Social Engineering Testing Matters

Every major breach in the past decade started with a human being making a decision — clicking a link, opening an attachment, sharing a credential, or holding a door. Technical controls are meaningless if an attacker can call your help desk, impersonate IT, and get a password reset.

Our social engineering assessments use the same tactics real adversaries deploy: carefully crafted phishing campaigns, convincing phone pretexts, and on-site physical intrusion attempts. We measure not just who falls for it, but how your organization detects and responds to the attack in progress.

Phishing Simulations

We design and execute targeted phishing campaigns that test your organization's email security controls and employee awareness simultaneously. Our campaigns range from broad-based awareness assessments to highly targeted spear-phishing operations against key personnel.

Vishing & Pretexting

Phone-based social engineering remains one of the most effective attack vectors. We conduct realistic vishing (voice phishing) campaigns where our operators call your employees with carefully developed pretexts to extract sensitive information, gain remote access, or bypass security procedures.

Common pretexts include IT support calls requesting credentials, vendor impersonation, executive authority scenarios, and help desk manipulation. Every call is logged, recorded (with authorization), and documented for debrief.

Physical Intrusion Testing

Can someone walk into your building, access your server room, or plug a device into your network without being challenged? Our physical social engineering assessments test badge access controls, visitor procedures, tailgating susceptibility, and employee willingness to challenge unfamiliar faces.

We document every access point exploited, every door held open, and every badge cloned — giving your facilities and security teams concrete evidence to justify physical security improvements.

Find out if your team can spot the attack before it's too late.

Test Your People

What You Receive

Every social engineering engagement delivers detailed metrics — click rates, credential submission rates, response times, detection rates — alongside narrative analysis of what worked, why it worked, and how to harden your human attack surface. We include specific, actionable recommendations for security awareness training improvements and policy changes.

Request Social Engineering Assessment

Tell us about your organization size, current security awareness program, and what you'd like to test. We'll design a campaign that delivers measurable results.

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