By working with Bridewell to complete a social engineering test, you can gain insight into how capable your employees are at recognizing and responding to social engineering and whether your organization's existing policies are effective at stopping these threats.
The Importance of Social Engineering Testing
- Identifying Vulnerabilities Through Testing: Social engineering tests reveal vulnerabilities by exploiting employees' natural helpfulness, helping to identify and address security weaknesses.
- Enhancing Employee Awareness and Training: Training should raise awareness without making individuals feel targeted. A supportive approach ensures employees feel valued, maintaining positive behaviors and engagement.
- Building a Stronger Security Culture: Integrating supportive testing and training fosters a security culture that minimizes risk while avoiding feelings of being reprimanded, encouraging active participation.
What to expect from a Social Engineering Test by Bridewell
Completing a social engineering test with us can help you identify identify vulnerabilities and improve procedures to mitigate risks from phishing, impersonation, and other tactics.
An Assessment of People and Technologies
Our reviews the processes you have in place to improve people’s awareness of social engineering techniques.
A Non-Judgmental Assessment
Our penetration testers will not use our findings to blame individuals within the organization and instead provide constructive feedback and support.
A Complete Range of Penetration Tests
Our tests can assess your organization's security from technological controls to people, processes, and procedures.
Tailored Engagements for Any Goal
None of our assessments are ‘out-of-the-box’; we collaborate with our clients to develop a framework that assesses specific areas of concern in line with business objectives.
Highly Accredited for Penetration Testing
We are accredited by CREST and holds certifications such as OSCP and Zeropoint Security CRTOs. Additionally, we are Tiger-certified and recognised as a Certified Cyber Security Consultancy by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC).
A Realistic Simulation of Real-Life Attack
Our assessments are goal-oriented and accurately recreate the tools, tactics and procedures that would be used by a real-world attacker.
Why is it Worth Conducting Social Engineering Testing?
Review Information Security Policies and Controls
Determine how effective your information security policy is and how controls can be improved to identify and prevent attacks.
Understand Risk
Establish what an attacker could obtain from your business through a successful attack.
A Valuable Component of Wider Penetration Testing
A social engineering assessment is a useful component within a wider testing process that can support red teaming or assumed breach testing.
Targeted Awareness Training
Enhance your employees’ ability to identify social engineering attacks.
Start your Social Engineering Testing Journey
Speak with one of our team to see how we can support you with social engineering testing.
How we Conduct Social Engineering Testing
Our social engineering penetration tests start with a scoping session to identify risks and review current processes. Testing focuses on known social engineering attacks including:
- Relationship-Building Attacks: Long-term attempts to build trust for future exploitation, often supporting supply chain attacks.
- Baiting/Luring: Using physical media to entice employees into connecting it to a system, often containing malware.
- Physical Intrusion: Disguising as an employee or using other techniques to access premises, gather information, or install devices.
- Impersonation: Pretending to be an employee to gain access to restricted areas.
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Why Us?
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180+ Security Specialists
Our team have diverse experience across sectors and disciplines, and hold accreditations from numerous industry bodies.
Certifications
Our people and services are highly accredited by leading industry bodies including CREST, the NCSC, and more. Our SOC holds extensive accreditations from CREST (including for CSIR and SOC2) and works closely with our cyber consultancy services.
Partnerships
As a Microsoft Partner, we also hold advanced specialisms in Cloud Security and Threat Protection. We’ve also implemented some of the UK’s largest deployments of the Microsoft Security stack, inc. Sentinel, Defender, Purview and more.
