Social Engineering Assessment
The most advanced perimeter firewall cannot block an employee who willingly hands over the keys.
Book AssessmentHardening Your Human Firewall
Atgardas Social Engineering Assessments evaluate the human element of your security posture. Threat actors frequently bypass expensive technical controls by exploiting human psychology through phishing, spear-phishing, vishing (voice), and smishing (SMS).
We craft highly targeted pretext scenarios based on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) specific to your organization. Moving beyond generic automated phishing templates, our operators mimic state-sponsored adversaries and sophisticated cybercriminal syndicates to manipulate employees into divulging sensitive data or executing malicious payloads.
The results identify gaps in your security awareness training, measure your incident response times, and provide a clear roadmap for establishing a resilient, security-first corporate culture.
Key Benefits & Deliverables
Bespoke Spear-Phishing
Custom-crafted, highly credible emails designed to mimic internal executives or trusted third-party vendors.
MFA Exhaustion & Bypass
Testing whether employees will approve fraudulent push notifications or surrender Time-Based One-Time Passwords (TOTPs).
Real-Time Defensive Validation
Measuring if your SOC or IT helpdesk effectively detects and blacklists the malicious campaign in real-time.
Engagement Process
Intelligence Gathering (OSINT)
Scraping LinkedIn, data brokers, and corporate directories to map employee relationships and hierarchies.
Pretext Development
Crafting highly tailored scenarios (e.g., HR benefits updates, IT password resets) and registering convincing look-alike domains.
Campaign Execution
Deploying email, SMS, or phone-based attacks aimed at achieving a specific metric: credential harvesting or payload execution.
Reporting & Training
Providing detailed metrics on click-rates and compromise statistics, completely anonymized for constructive employee training.
Frequently Asked Questions
Testing an organization's susceptibility to human manipulation techniques like phishing.
No, all campaigns are heavily customized based on active OSINT gathered against your company.
Voice phishing. Our operators impersonate IT staff or vendors over the phone to extract passwords.
Never. We anonymize the data in executive reports to focus on process improvement, not punishment.
No, we use safe, benign payloads that report execution back to our servers without causing harm.
Yes, we simulate advanced reverse-proxy attacks (like Evilginx) designed to capture live session tokens.
Campaigns are typically spread out over 2 to 4 weeks to avoid alerting the entire organization at once.
Yes. Testing verifies if the annual training is actually effective in real-world scenarios.
Finance, HR, and IT Administration are heavily targeted due to their high privilege levels.
Yes, facility infiltration is offered under our Physical Penetration Testing service.
See What a Real Finding Looks Like
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