Our assessments follow the same process as a real-life phishing campaign to provide an accurate simulation of how your policies, procedures and people would respond to an attack.
The Importance of Phishing Assessment
Phishing is a leading threat, with increasingly sophisticated techniques targeting critical business information.
- Building a Culture of Awareness - To combat phishing, organisations must foster a culture of awareness that educates employees on phishing risks and implements effective procedures.
- Engaging Employees- Achieving this without making staff feel tested or singled out is challenging but essential for engaging them in training and ensuring robust security outcomes.
What to Expect from a Phishing Assessment by Bridewell
Our assessments simulate real-life phishing campaigns to test how effectively your policies, procedures, and employees respond to attacks.
Identifying Vulnerabilities Through Simulation
Our approach ensure you identify vulnerabilities, assess employee readiness, and determine if your organisation has the right policies in place to mitigate phishing risks.
Tailored Engagements
Each phishing assessment is bespoke to your organisation’s specific business and goals, delivering a customised and targeted campaign.
An Assessment of People and Technologies
We review the processes you have in place to improve people’s awareness of phishing techniques.
Deep Sector Experience
We work with organisations in some of the most highly regulated and critical industries and understands the unique business challenges and risks faced by these sectors.
Highly Accredited for Penetration Testing
We are accredited by CREST and hold 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).
Why is it Worth Conducting a Phishing Assessment?
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.
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Understand Risk
Establish what an attacker could obtain from your business through a successful attack.
Targeted Awareness
Training enhances your employees’ ability to identify phishing attacks.
A Valuable Component of Wider Penetration Testing
A phishing assessment is a useful component within a wider testing process that can support red teaming of assumed breach testing.
Start your Phishing Assessment Journey
Speak with one of our risk assessment experts to see how we can support your organisation in reducing risk and meeting regulatory demands.
How we conduct a Phishing Assessment
Simulating Phishing Attacks to Identify Risks
We simulate phishing attacks to pinpoint where attackers could potentially succeed. After testing, our consultants provide targeted training to improve areas across the organisation, mitigating risk effectively. Training options include cloud-based courses or virtual workshops.
Ongoing Security Testing and Customised Assessments
Additional phishing assessments can be conducted as needed. We work with your organisation to define goals and align assessments with your primary security concerns.
Phishing Assessment FAQs
The purpose of the phishing or social engineering assessment is to evaluate an organisation's ability to detect and respond to different types of attacks. These assessments can help them identify weaknesses in their security posture and processess and take steps to improve their defenses and responses.
Social engineering is one of the most overlooked, and arguably the most dangerous security threats that an organisation can face. In the context of cybersecurity, social engineering tactics are used to deceive or manipulate employees within an organisation to divulge confidential or sensitive information for fraudulent purposes.
There are many benefits to conducting a phishing assessment, including: 1. Identifying potential vulnerabilities in your organisation's email system that could be exploited by attackers. 2. Determining whether your employees are susceptible to phishing attacks and if they are, what type of attacks are they most likely to fall for. 3. Educating your employees about the dangers of phishing attacks and how to avoid them.
A phishing assessment should be conducted at least once a year and tailored to meet current organisational maturity and reflect real sector or industry threats. The frequency of assessments will depend on the organisation's size, industry, and risk profile.
Why Us?
Awards
Our team have won numerous industry awards, including ‘Best Security Company of the Year' at the Cyber Security Awards 2023 and 'Best Cyber Security Company Europe' at the Cyber Security Awards 2022.
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.
