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What is a Social Engineering Assessment & Why do I Need it?
Security breaches of corporate IT networks are often thought to only come as a result of a malicious attack from technically competent computer hackers. However, Social Engineering is increasingly being used to help hackers bypass the initial IT security barriers.
Overly helpful employees lacking security awareness can often be duped into providing access to corporate offices or restricted areas such as IT data centres where the hacker has no authorised access.
Using a mix of methodologies Social Engineering attacks can come via a seemingly innocent telephone call, forged email or physical visits to corporate offices.
Identify Human Risk
Identify Security Vulnerabilities within your People and Processes allowing you to proactively remediate any issues that arise
Remediate Risks Within Your Processes
Use our Social Engineering consultants advice and SecurePortal to remediate any vulnerabilities.
Improve The Security Posture of Your People & Processes
Keep your People & Processes secure after a thorough assessment from one of our experts.
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Scoping & Intelligence Gathering
Our experts will listen to you and your needs to develop a tailored testing strategy. From here our consultants will use a wide variety of penetration testing tools and resources to gather information on your organisation.
Reporting & Remediation
Now the test is complete our consultants will fill out a detailed report of their findings, broken down by category and type, adding any remediation advice to the exploits and vulnerabilities they discovered. This data will be accessible via SecurePortal and follow up calls will be made to walkthrough the test and the steps required to remove the risks found.
Make Your Testing Experience Easier with SecurePortal
SecurePortal provides clients with a new way to monitor and analyse the data you receive in your penetration tests. Rather than a lengthy physical report you gain a range of simple features that highlight your test findings and vulnerabilities.
Easily access remediation advice from our team of consultants on discovered vulnerabilities and assign them to your team for fast and efficient resolution. Receive overview and trend data of all of the current security issues you face in your organisatio and so much more./
Key Benefits of Social Engineering
Understand how your security posture can be affected not only by your infrastructure but also by your trusted employees.
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By simulating real-world attacks, social engineering assessments can help raise employee awareness of security risks and best practices
Be able to focus efforts on important security issues by identifying the high-risk items identified in the Social Engineering report
Identify Security Vulnerabilities within your People and Processes allowing you to proactively remediate any issues that arise
Ease The Burden of Testing
Our Social Engineering Assessment Provides Access to SecurePortal
Digital Reporting
Until now, the traditional deliverable from a Penetration Testing engagement has been a lengthy 100+ page PDF report. Pentest People have developed a solution to this issue where you interact with your vulnerabilities within the SecurePortal.
Detailed Metrics
Receive detailed security metrics and trends about all your hosts and risks through the SecurePortal. Receive useful trend information such as the top vulnerable hosts, and the most common vulnerabilities within your organisation.
Assign Remediation Steps
Assign your remediation steps via SecurePortal and monitor their progress. Saving you time and resources.
What Are The Risks Involved With Untrained Staff?
The people and process element of security is often overlooked when allocating budget to Penetration Testing engagements. It is no surprise that attackers are also aware of this and looking at some very high profile attacks it is clear that Social Engineering techniques were utilised by the attackers as a way to extract reconnaissance information or to gain access to physical locations.
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How Can Our Social Engineering Assessment Help?
Pentest People’s Social Engineering testing service experts are adept at discovering and exploiting operational weaknesses in corporate policies and procedures that can unwittingly lead to unauthorised access to restricted systems.
Using the Open Social Engineering Framework methodology, our social engineering assessment consultants can set up a covert Social Engineering project aimed at testing the robustness of your internal systems and provide practical advice on what changes are needed to prevent a real attack succeeding.
The service would be delivered as part of the Pentest People Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) and full access to the SecurePortal and other complementary tools would be provided.
Experienced Consultant Team
Our Testing Team are CREST Accredited & Includes CHECK Team Leaders
Experienced & Accredited Testing Team For All Our Services
Penetration testing is a key component of any effective cybersecurity strategy, and it requires well-trained professionals to execute. Our consultant team needs are highly trained in order to test your business for vulnerabilities and identify potential threats before they cause harm. Our team have a deep understanding of the systems and protocols involved in protecting against hackers, malware, and data breaches.
- CHECK Team Leaders
- CREST Accredited consultant teams
- Experts in all areas of cybersecurity
See What Our Clients Have to Say About our Professional Services
“Pentest People stand out in the field of penetration testing due to the skillset of people they have working there. We undertook a complex bespoke pentest with them which required a lot of pre-work in order to make sure it was scoped correctly and they took the time to come onsite to make sure all was correct prior to commencing. From my experience with them, they are very intelligent people with a deep understanding of the security landscape and we will continue to use them for future testing requirements”.
"Pentest People has been a trusted partner in our Information Security audits, helping us achieve ISO27001:2013 and Cyber Essentials certifications. Their expertise, professionalism, and
customer-focused solutions have greatly improved our ICT infrastructure.
I highly recommend Pentest People to any potential client."
“Pentest People were efficient, knowledgeable and very supportive of our organisation making the jump from Cyber Essentials to accreditation to the ‘Plus’ upgrade. They were great to communicate with, delivered as promised and we will certainly use again when re-certification comes round."
“The SecureGateway allowed Pentest People to perform a quality penetration test while the tester worked remotely. The results and data collected by the consultant were at the level we would expect from a standard test, showing no real difference other than allowing us to proceed as normal”
“Pentest People have provided us with a very streamlined testing service, that can be easily reviewed using their SecurePortal. I’m pleased with the quality of the testing report and it has enabled us to feel more confident in our network security”.
“We used Pentest People to assist us with our security testing. They truly understand this area extremely well and gave us great reassurance on areas that we needed to improve.
Pentest People are truly experts in the security field and we would highly recommend them. They have great depth of knowledge and breadth of experience”
"Pentest People perform Web Application and Infrastructure Penetration Testing for Pharmacy2U. They are always professional to engage with, provide an excellent level of service and the addition of the SecurePortal makes receiving and interrogating the results of the service very easy indeed.We look forward to working with them in the future and trust the work they deliver."
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the deliverable from the Social Engineering service?
The deliverable from this service is a full Social Engineering Test Report that is uploaded to our SecurePortal and available for you to interact with. This differs from the competition in the way this is delivered and we believe this is a much clearer way to work with an manage the results of the assessment.
What types of Social Engineering can you offer?
Social Engineering is a very bespoke service and Pentest People are experienced in all aspects of assessments. Due to the bespoke nature, it is best to Get In Touch with us to discuss your exact requirements.
How does Social Engineering differ from a Pen Test?
Social Engineering is part of an overall Penetration Testing engagement. Traditionally Penetration Testing only assesses systems and infrastructure where Social Engineering is assessing the People and Policies for security weaknesses.
What is Social Engineering?
Social Engineering, in the context of information security, refers to psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information. A type of confidence trick for the purpose of information gathering, fraud, or system access, it differs from a traditional “con” in that it is often one of many steps in a more complex fraud scheme.
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