Assess, educate and inform on end user security awareness and resiliency.

Social engineering is the tactic of manipulating, influencing, or deceiving a victim to gain control over a computer system, or to steal personal, financial and otherwise sensitive information. It uses psychological manipulation to trick users into making mistakes or giving away sensitive information.

Scams based on social engineering are built around how people think and act. As such, social engineering attacks are especially useful for manipulating a user’s behavior. Once a cybercriminal understands what motivates a user’s actions, they can deceive and manipulate the user effectively.

In addition, cybercriminals try to exploit a user’s lack of knowledge. Thanks to the speed of technology, many consumers and employees aren’t aware of certain threats and the associated tactics and techniques used by sophisticated adversaries. As a result, many users are unsure how to detect these threats and best protect themselves.

Generally, social engineering attackers have one of two goals:

• Sabotage: Disrupting or corrupting data to cause harm or inconvenience.
• Theft: Obtaining valuables like information, access, or money.

Canary Trap’s Social Engineering Vulnerability Assessment will employ tactics and techniques that are designed to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in human behavior. We can target users with sophisticated spear phishing, vishing, and smishing attacks to test their security awareness and resiliency.

All simulated social engineering attacks will be conducted in a controlled environment with the utmost care for the user’s well-being and privacy. Additionally, comprehensive documentation and reporting will be provided, including analysis of susceptibilities to social engineering attacks, recommended improvements to controls and employee awareness training programs.

Committing to undertake regular offensive security testing will help to ensure that your organization can remain vigilant and resilient to new and emerging cyber threats. Undertaking a social engineering vulnerability assessment can assist with improved planning when it comes to business continuity and disaster recovery.

Canary Trap combines human expertise with sophisticated tools, proven methodologies and, where appropriate, threat intelligence to ensure a thorough, in-depth approach to security testing and assessments.

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