Phishing Assessment

Gain intelligence-driven and actionable insight into your organisation’s resilience to phishing attacks with Rootshell Security’s Phishing Assessment.

What is a phishing assessment?

Organisations are often breached because an employee falls victim to a phishing attack. A threat actor will launch a phishing attack by sending emails that aim to trick your personnel into divulging confidential information or clicking a link that contains malware.

Rootshell Security’s Phishing Assessment services simulate the entire lifecycle of a phishing attack, so you can test your organisation’s defences at each stage.

We use cutting-edge cyber threat intelligence to demonstrate how a threat actor would exploit public information about your organisation to plan a convincing attack.

We then simulate the attack itself by creating and sending mock phishing emails to agreed targets.

You will gain a clear understanding of your organisation’s ability to defend against a phishing attack; our easy-to-understand reports and continuous guidance will support your next steps.

Phishing assessment benefits

Your personnel are your first line of defence; this makes them prime targets for phishing attacks. Phishing assessments arm you with the insight needed to improve cybersecurity awareness, strengthen your defences, and gain the upper hand.

Strengthen your security posture: Bolster your organisation’s defences against phishing attacks. You will be provided with the data you need to take remedial action and measure improvement over time. Our consultants will be on hand to provide expert advice

Understand your risk of compromise: Gain critical visibility of your organisation’s risk of compromise. Our intelligence-driven approach gives you transparency of how a threat actor could use publicly accessible information to breach your organisation

Evaluate your defences: Put your personnel and processes to the test. You will gain a clear understanding of your employees’ ability to identify suspicious emails and the effectiveness of your incident response processes, so you can pinpoint where improvements are needed

Improve cyber security awareness: Enhance your employees’ cyber security awareness. Your personnel will undergo an impactful training experience. They will become more aware of cybersecurity risks and better equipped to help keep your organisation safe

Our phishing assessment services

Our Phishing Assessment services test how your organisation would withstand each stage of a phishing attack, from reconnaissance to launch.

Intelligence-led Phishing Assessment: Public information on the internet is the starting point for cybercriminals to launch a phishing attack on your organisation. We can use advanced open source intelligence (OSINT) techniques to harvest your employees’ email addresses and create mock phishing emails that contain a ‘hook’ relevant to your organisation. This can be delivered as a standalone service or as part of our Red Team as a Service (RTaaS).

Organisation-wide Phishing Assessment: The ability of your personnel to identify phishing emails is critical to keeping your organisation secure. We can simulate a real-world phishing attack by sending mock phishing emails to the contacts you provide. This realistic but safe assessment enables you to measure your personnel’s susceptibility to phishing emails and pinpoint where training is required

Spear Phishing Assessment:Cybercriminals can go to great lengths to launch a targeted (‘spear’) phishing attack on your organisation’s high-value personnel. These emails are often cunningly relevant, such as an email appearing to be from a hotel they recently stayed in. Our Spear Phishing Assessment tests the ability of agreed targets within your organisation to identify a phishing attack

Why Rootshell’s Phishing Assessment service?

We conduct powerful, intelligence-driven phishing assessments for some of the UK’s largest organisations. Here’s why Rootshell would be your trusted partner for phishing assessments.

Expert guidance: Our experienced consultants take the time to understand your organisation’s unique needs and objectives. We can advise the best solution for your phishing assessments so you receive the most actionable and relevant insights possible

A smart approach: Many organisations offer phishing assessments, but not all have the expertise to offer an intelligence-driven assessment. Our vast experience in cyber threat intelligence, reconnaissance, and the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of threat actors ensures you gain a deeper insight into exactly how an attack would be planned and launched

Continuous support: If a hacker fails to infiltrate your organisation, they won’t give up; they will try again or attempt to use other means. Our consultants can advise the best solution for you to continually assess and improve your organisation’s security posture, such as running regular phishing assessments or testing alternative hacking methods like SMiShing (SMS phishing)

How is a phishing assessment service carried out?

– Scoping: Our experienced security consultants can help define your objectives and advise which of our Phishing Assessment services would be most suitable. Together, we agree the approach and targets of your phishing assessment, ensuring you have full transparency.

– Reconnaissance (Intelligence-led Phishing Assessment only): We use a range of open-source intelligence (OSINT) techniques to gather as much information on your organisation as possible. This could include leaked email addresses to help plan the attack and create convincing emails.

– Attack delivery: We create and send phishing emails to the agreed targets. The emails track statistics such as how many people opened the email, how many clicked the link, and who divulged personal information.

– Reporting: We deliver a report containing a full breakdown of our findings from your phishing assessment. This includes all the key statistics you need to evaluate your defences. These actionable results will support your next steps and help you measure improvement over time.

Types of phishing assessments explained

Spear phishing assessment

Spear phishing assessments test the ability of specific individuals to spot a phishing email. This could be your CEO or senior team. The phishing assessment will be tailored to them to make it more realistic.

Objectives: Test resilience to phishing attacks, Identify where training is needed

Email phishing assessment

Our bespoke phishing assessments test the ability of team members to identify and resist a relevant, engaging email. We base our social engineering around publicly available company information, using the same tools as an attacker.

Objectives: Test resilience to phishing attacks, Identify where training is needed

Specialist phishing assessment

A specialist phishing assessment may use intelligence techniques to assess how a threat actor could exploit publicly available information to plan an attack on your organisation. This could include using intelligence to obtain your employees’ email addresses.

Objectives: Assess risk of compromise, Test resilience to phishing attacks, Identify where training is needed

SMiSHing assessment

This type of phishing assessment sends mock phishing text messages to your employees.

Objectives: Test resilience to phishing attacks, Identify where training is needed

Phishing Assessment

What is a phishing assessment?

Phishing assessment benefits

Our phishing assessment services

Why Rootshell’s Phishing Assessment service?

How is a phishing assessment service carried out?

Types of phishing assessments explained

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