Your staff members are the first line of defence against attackers, and it is becoming more and more common for attackers to simply phone a company and trick a staff member into giving them access to a customer or staff account, or other valuable system. This is known as social engineering, and is becoming increasingly prevalent as an attack vector.

Social engineering is a simulated attack against your staff, which takes place either over the phone, via your helpdesk solution or via your webchat solution. The purpose of the simulation is to attempt to gain access to valid customer accounts, or to trick the staff member into divulging sensitive information.

Our testers will enumerate the potential attack surface for social engineering, carry out research into your business, the targeted staff members, and your customers prior to launching the simulated attack. They will attempt

The types of social engineering we offer