Skip to content
HACKTECH

Adversary simulation

Social engineering assessment

Phishing, vishing and physical pretexting run against your staff, help desk and finance team, only under written authorisation that names the targets, pretexts and limits. Results are reported by channel and pretext, never by name: how far a convincing approach got, how many people reported it and how long the first report took to reach someone who acted.

Best for
Organisations that want evidence for awareness training, a help desk that resets credentials over the phone, or offices where tailgating has never been tested.
Duration
2 to 4 weeks including campaign preparation
Standards
NIST SP 800-115

What you receive

  • Results by pretext and channel: delivered, opened, submitted and reported
  • Report-to-response timing: when the first report arrived and what happened next
  • Help-desk and payment-verification weaknesses with procedural fixes
  • Aggregate reporting only: no individual name-and-shame lists
  • Awareness session that replays the emails and calls from your own campaign

Representative coverage

  • Payload-free phishing with pretexts relevant to your business, recording submissions without keeping real passwords
  • Resistance to MFA prompt fatigue and adversary-in-the-middle phishing, demonstrated safely
  • Vishing against help desks and finance: password resets, MFA re-enrolment and bank-detail changes
  • Physical pretexting: tailgating, badge controls and unattended equipment, where authorised
  • Email authentication and filtering: SPF, DKIM, DMARC and lookalike-domain handling
  • Reporting culture: how easily staff can report and whether reports reach someone who acts

How the engagement runs

A 45-minute scoping call, signed rules of engagement, a written note after each testing day and a report with an executive summary and one entry per finding.

  1. 45 minutes

    Scoping call

    We walk your architecture, agree what matters most and identify what must stay off-limits. There is no discovery invoice and no open-ended estimate.

    Fixed quoteProposed datesWritten scope by email

  2. 1 to 2 days

    Rules of engagement

    Signed authorisation, escalation contacts, testing windows and traffic identifiers. If a critical issue appears mid-test we page you immediately rather than saving it for the report.

    Signed RoEEscalation pathTest account provisioning

  3. The testing days in your quote

    Testing

    Testing runs inside the agreed windows and carries the agreed traffic identifiers. At the end of each testing day you get a short written note of what was covered and anything found.

    Daily written updatesImmediate critical escalation

  4. 2 to 3 days

    Reporting

    An executive summary for the board, then one entry per finding with its evidence, how to reproduce it, its severity and the fix.

    Full reportExecutive summaryPrioritised fix backlog

  5. Included

    Remediation support

    A working session with your engineers to walk the findings, plus a shared channel for questions while the fixes are being built. Most disputes about severity get settled here, in front of the evidence.

    Walkthrough sessionShared support channel

Red team and social engineering exercises that measure whether your staff and your detection stop an intruder before an agreed objective is reached.

  • Objective-based adversary simulation: we agree the objectives, try to reach them over several weeks and measure what your detection and response do along the way. Purple mode runs the same scenarios with your defenders in the room, tuning detection as each technique is replayed.

    Duration: 3 to 6 weeks

Questions teams ask

Do you run phishing simulations against our staff?

Only under written authorisation from someone entitled to give it, naming the pretexts, the people in scope and the limits. We use payload-free techniques, stop at proof of access and report by channel and pretext, never by name, with the time from the first click to the first report and from the first report to action.

Will testing take down our production environment?

No tester can promise that nothing will break, so we plan for it. Testing windows and limits on destructive tests are agreed in the rules of engagement before anything starts, and all our traffic carries an identifier your team can filter on. Where a test could write or delete data or send email, we run it against staging and confirm the finding in production only with your sign-off.

How quickly can you start?

We can usually hold the scoping call within two working days and start work within two weeks of a signed scope. If a deal deadline cannot wait that long, say so when you get in touch and we will give you the earliest date we can start. For an active incident, skip the scoping call and phone +972 52 613 9179.

Can you sign our NDA and security requirements?

Yes. We sign your NDA before the scoping call if you ask, and work under it for the whole engagement. Engagement data is encrypted at rest and destroyed when the engagement closes, or on a schedule you set. Send your supplier security requirements before the scoping call and we will tell you in writing which we meet.

All service questions

Scope it in one call

A 45-minute scoping call ends with a fixed quote and a proposed start date; the written scope follows by email.