Email Phishing Simulations

Test your users security awareness with email phishing simulations.
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How to protect Your Business from Phishing Attacks?

To safeguard your business from phishing scams, it’s vital to foster a strong Cyber Security culture. This means ensuring everyone is equipped to spot suspicious emails through regular phishing simulation tests. Our service provides practical cyber attack simulations to help your team strengthen your defences from the latest phishing risks.

How to prevent successful phishing scams:

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What is a Phishing Attack?

A phishing attack is a type of cybercrime where hackers use deceptive techniques, often via email or SMS messages, to trick individuals into divulging sensitive information such as passwords or financial details, targeting businesses and individuals.

These fraudulent communications are designed to appear legitimate, but their aim is to illicitly acquire personal or confidential data from unsuspecting victims.

What is a Phishing Simulation?

A phishing simulation is a controlled exercise conducted by Cyber Security organisations to assess the susceptibility of their employees to phishing attacks. In a phishing simulation, realistic but harmless phishing emails are sent to employees to gauge their response and awareness levels.

Phishing simulations help organisations pinpoint weaknesses, teach employees about real phishing tactics, and take proactive steps to improve overall security by increasing employee awareness and readiness to tackle cyber-threats. Social engineering penetration tests can be conducted in the form of a simulated phishing attack, an onsite access assessment or a combination of both.

Provide the Phishing Awareness Training to Create a Human Firewall

Phishing Awareness Training

Our user awareness training offers practical guidance and engaging materials to help your team understand the risks of phishing threats.

Employee Phishing testing

Test how susceptible your team  are to phishing emails and the latest phishing scam trends with our multi-staged attack simulations.

Cyber Security culture change

Empower your employees to understand why and how they become targets for phishing attacks, fostering a security-minded approach that improves over time.

Management reporting

Gain comprehensive understanding of employee learning analysis and development through our in-depth reporting capabilities.

 

The Benefits of a Phishing Simulation Service

Our Phishing Simulation Services

Whether you’re seeking a single phishing attack simulation or an ongoing service to strengthen your Cyber Security against phishing threats, we’ve got you covered. Let us be your partner in safeguarding your organisation from the perils of phishing attacks.

Concerned your employees aren’t up to speed on the latest phishing attacks or worried about vulnerabilities in specific departments?

We can assist you. Our expert phishers create realistic simulated phishing tests, customised to target specific job roles within your organisation.

If you need a one-time test to assess your team’s cyber awareness, we can provide you with a clear picture. Get in touch to learn more about our simulated phishing emails.

 An ongoing phishing simulation service helps keep everyone informed and educated, ensuring your business stays protected.

While a single simulated phishing attack provides a good baseline understanding, a strong security culture is driven through continuous testing.

Our expert phishers craft a range of phishing email attacks, beginning with easy targets to test your low hanging fruit and then progressively advancing to more sophisticated tactics.

Our process

Step 1
Test

When you decide to start your phishing simulation test, the first stage is to benchmark your users against a 3-phase phishing simulation exercise. Each phase becomes progressively more targeted and plausible. From this we can create a baseline to measure from and to track the continued success of the phishing simulation service.

Step 2
Track

Using our advanced reporting, we will be able to track each user’s ability to spot phishing emails. We will also look at elements like how long users take to instigate the online training and how engaged they are with the process.

Step 3
Train

Our learning programme provides fresh and immersive training to challenge your team to develop. To help put cyber-risks in relatable narratives, our interactive games, phishing quizzes, videos and onsite sessions can be tailored to your business and policies. We help protect your business from a phishing attacks through educating, encouraging your team to report phishing attempts, and enforcing policies to block a phishing email when it comes in.

Step 4
Measure and improve

We do not stop at training. We analyse the data gathered to establish a tailored development plan which seeks to improve and measure your cyber-maturity over time. Our aim is to consistently enhance your phishing protection, ensuring your team is equipped with the knowledge to safeguard your business against phishing attacks effectively.

Why Invest in Building Your Cyber-Awareness with Email Phishing Protection?

With cyber threats continually evolving, prioritising phishing awareness is essential to protect your business from potential breaches and financial losses. By conducting regular simulations and providing comprehensive training, you empower your staff with the skills and knowledge necessary to identify and mitigate phishing attacks effectively. 

Do phishing simulations work? Yes, our enhanced phishing protection tests are a good way to test scam awareness. It is a chance to identify your security weaknesses and test the effectiveness of your employee training in a real-life scenario.

Call us on 0121 663 0055 if you would like to find out more about our Phishing Simulation service.

Frequently Asked Questions

A phishing attack simulator is an effective tool for strengthening the cyber awareness of your team. Think about it, you’re dealing with cybercriminals who are constantly coming up with new ways to trick people into handing over sensitive info or clicking on dodgy links.

Phishing campaign simulations play a vital role in strengthening your Cyber Security protocols. These online phishing simulations serve as simulated scenarios replicating real-life phishing attacks, within a controlled and secure environment. Functioning as training exercises, they enable teams to test their ability to identify and prevent sophisticated phishing attempts.

Yes, we do. We’ve got a range of templates on our phishing simulation platform ready to go, and they can be tweaked to fit different businesses. Some like to stick with what we’ve got, while others have their own unique ideas they want to bring to the table. 

Say for example you have specific wording or a particular topic you want covered, we can adapt our hacker simulator phishing emails. 

Our phisher’s use the best phishing simulation tools to make sure you gain an in-depth analysis of your results and uncover your vulnerabilities. 

Spear phishing is a targeted form of phishing where cyber criminals customise their attacks to specific individuals or organisations.

Unlike generic phishing emails, spear phishing messages are personalised and tailored to the recipient’s interests, role, or relationships. This makes them more convincing and increases the likelihood of the recipient falling for the scam. Spear phishing attacks often involve research and reconnaissance to gather information about the target, such as their name, job title, colleagues, or recent activities, which is then used to craft a highly targeted and believable email.

The goal of spear phishing is typically to trick the recipient into revealing sensitive information, such as login credentials or financial details, or to deploy malware onto their system.

As social engineering attacks ramp up in prevalence and sophistication, security awareness training should not be a ‘tick-box’ exercise hosted on an annual basis. To out-pace these cyber-criminals, regular awareness training should be embedded into your corporate-wide procedures for all staff to take part in. It should also be integrated into your new-starter onboarding process. This allows new employees to get up-to-speed on security best practice from the offset.

Based on our experience, we’ve found that a mix of face-to-face training and e-learning sessions achieves the highest engagement.

E-learning provides an effective way to consistently reinforce phishing awareness through enjoyable games, videos, and quizzes.

Our onsite sessions are interactive and complement the online training, encouraging your team to share concerns and understand cyber risks within your business context. Additionally, face-to-face training allows for a deep dive into specific areas you want to raise awareness about.

Yes, to the latter! We don’t use off-the-shelf training which has little relevance to your industry, our training can be totally customised to your business.

We believe that to achieve the best knowledge retention, the training must be tailored to your business, your unique policies and the key threats to your industry. Our smart phishing simulation examples will show you great insights into how your organisation responds to attacks. These insights serve as the cornerstone for our training programs, ensuring targeted and effective Cyber Security education.

Email phishing is one of the most common forms of a social engineering attack, which is why it’s important to get ahead of and keep your organisation as safe as possible from. 

What is an example of a phishing attack? Phishing emails are designed to look like a legitimate email from a credible source. For example, maybe your accounts team receives an email from your organisation’s bank saying your credit card information has been leaked or compromised. This instantly ignites emotion from the reader. You want to know more. This is what the hacker wants, they want you to click on a link, scan a QR code, update a password or open an attachment. 

When conducting our phishing email simulator we try and incorporate a number of these tactics when creating the phishing emails examples. This way we keep your employees on their toes and it’s not obvious to them that we are conducting a phishing email simulator.