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, organizations 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 organization has the right policies in place to mitigate phishing risks.
Tailored Engagements
Each phishing assessment is bespoke to your organization's specific business and goals, delivering a customized 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 organizations 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 organization 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 organization, mitigating risk effectively. Training options include cloud-based courses or virtual workshops.
Ongoing Security Testing and Customized Assessments
Additional phishing assessments can be conducted as needed. We work with your organization to define goals and align assessments with your primary security concerns.
Phishing Assessment FAQs
Phishing assessments are controlled cybersecurity exercises in which organizations send fabricated, but realistic phishing emails to employees to test their resilience to real-world phishing attempts. They often measure how many links are clicked and any attachments opened.
The four P’s of phishing relate to the warning signs to be aware of when an unauthorized user makes a phishing attempt. These are:
- Pretend – scammers trying to disguise themselves as a trusted person.
- Problem – a fabricated crisis or issue.
- Pressure – a short timeframe given to provide the information needed to ‘fix’ this problem.
- Pay – the result. The victim pays or divulges information via an untraceable method.
Best practices for protecting against phishing attacks include multi-factor authentication and educating employees to double-check email addresses for misspellings and never click suspicious links or download unexpected attachments.
Why Us?
180+ Security Specialists
Our team have diverse experience across sectors and disciplines, and hold accreditations from numerous industry bodies.
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.
