Why choose Bulletproof to help prevent social engineering attacks?
Critical Protection
Your staff are your biggest cyber risk, so social engineering helps maximise employee vigilance.
Expert Testers
Our team are independently qualified by industry-recognised bodies such as CREST.
Cost-effective Tests
Get a best-fit engagement that’s designed to efficiently meet your security objectives.
Detailed Reporting
Our easy-to-understand reports include a management summary and technical breakdown.
Secure your staff mindset
Secure staff lead to a secure organisation, but social engineering techniques are always growing and evolving. This means your employees need to be continuously aware of the latest tools and tricks hackers will use against them. By regularly testing and educating your staff, you can give them a bulletproof mindset to make them immune to these attacks.
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Key Features
Our social engineering services simulate a targeted social engineering attack by malicious hackers.
Advanced phishing & vishing techniques to get past your first line of defence
Media baiting, impersonation and physical entry options available
Our expert social engineers use the same recon & intelligence as real-world hackers
Collected credentials are provided as evidence of our success
Easy-to-understand report clearly highlights problem areas
Combine with security awareness training for maximum protection
What to expect
Our CREST-approved social engineering team follow an industry-standard penetration testing methodology in order to maximise the impact of your test.
Scoping
Accurate scoping ensures that your test is meticulously crafted to meet all your security and business objectives
Reconnaissance
This intelligence gathering phase uses a variety of open and private sources, including those used by real-world hackers
Exploitation
Exploitation is where our expert testers execute our pre-planned social engineering campaigns
Reporting
Results are presented in an easy-to-understand report, including executive summary and technical breakdown
Robust Defences
Regular social engineering testing should be a core part of your cyber strategy. It works best when combined with Bulletproof’s CREST-approved penetration testing and red team services, giving you a complete overview of your security posture.
With social engineering securing the human element to your security, Bulletproof’s managed SIEM threat protection is your best defence against safeguarding your technical estate against cyber attack.
Bulletproof's phishing & vishing services
Phishing campaigns that reflect real-world threats
Our controlled phishing assessments help you understand how your users and systems respond to realistic social engineering threats. These customisable campaigns simulate real-world phishing tactics used by cybercriminals, whether the target is a specific department, remote workers, or companywide.
We leverage OSINT to tailor each campaign, mimicking your business tools and systems to increase authenticity and impact, and track all interactions from credential harvesting to malicious downloads or remote access attempts to identify weak points.
Our phishing simulations test user awareness as well as evaluating your organisation’s email policies, ingress filtering, and incident response. These campaign insights are then fed directly into actionable recommendations for your business, empowering you to strengthen your defences against evolving phishing threats.
Vishing: Testing voice based social engineering resilience
Vishing (voice phishing) is a social engineering technique using phone calls to trick people into revealing sensitive information. In our vishing assessments, we simulate real-world scenarios such as impersonating a colleague, IT support, or a trusted supplier, to see how well your team responds to pressure.
Every campaign is shaped around your business, using publicly available information (OSINT) to craft convincing scripts and identities. These calls might aim to bypass MFA, persuade staff to share credentials, or get access to restricted systems. We keep track of how targets respond and offer tailored advice on where improvements are needed.
We can also run combined phishing and vishing campaigns for broader insight into how your teams handle coordinated, multi-channel attacks, offering a more comprehensive view of your social engineering risk posture.
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Social engineering FAQs
Social engineering is the process of leveraging the human aspect of a business in order to compromise security. The most common form of this is phishing. This involves tricking users via email into following a malicious link, downloading malware or submitting their credentials.
This is often the easiest way for a hacker to compromise a business. No matter how formidable your cyber security is, a member of staff can easily undo it all. In 2019, phishing attacks attempting to get ransomware into businesses had risen 109% from 2017.
Social engineering is a fancy term for what can often be a simple approach. How many times have you received an email that looks like the following?
Dear User,
Your Outlook password is due to expire and requires resetting. Please follow this link to reset it.
LINK
Regards,
IT Dept.
That link will no doubt direct you to a malicious portal owned by hackers intent on getting your password and, if you clicked the link and reset your password, then they’ll have it. When booking a penetration test, many companies choose to include an element of social engineering in order to test their staff’s susceptibility to phishing.
Some important things to look out for is poor spelling and grammar, both in the body text and the email address.
Humans are often the weakest link in the cyber security chain. Even the tightest technical controls can be overcome by an employee who's been tricked by a hacker. By testing your staff against social engineering, you can learn from the results, spot where the biggest weaknesses are and educate staff to significantly improve your cyber security.
Conducting social engineering prevention allows you to uncover the weaknesses in your social engineering defences. Learning from the results of a social engineering campaign shows you where you need to focus your remediation efforts. Along with good policies and procedures, employee education is typically seen as the best defence against social engineering – making regular staff training a must-have for any organisation.
Hackers know the fastest way to compromise your security is to exploit a human being who sits behind it. No matter what technological defences you have in-place to keep hackers out, if a cyber criminal can convince a member of staff to click a malicious link through a cleverly crafted email, all your defences are bypassed. This is what makes social engineering prevention services so vital.
Some hackers will craft targeted, bespoke campaigns against you, whilst others will adopt a blanket approach to catch business who are less prepared. With so many different tactics and techniques available to cyber criminals, regular social engineering prevention is the best way to stay protected.
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