Real World Human Attack Simulation for Organisations Serious About Security Awareness
Orasec delivers results driven social engineering and phishing simulation services, identifying the human vulnerabilities, process weaknesses, and security awareness gaps that attackers exploit to gain unauthorised access, steal credentials, and compromise organisational systems through targeted manipulation of people rather than technology. We go beyond generic awareness training by combining certified social engineers, advanced adversarial methodologies, and real world attack simulation to uncover the human security weaknesses that genuinely impact your organisation's ability to defend against socially engineered attacks.
Technical controls stop technical attacks. Social engineering bypasses every technical control by targeting the people operating them. Organisations that test their human attack surface understand exactly where staff awareness fails, which processes create exploitable vulnerabilities, and whether security culture actually holds up under real world attack conditions before a real attacker finds out first.
Social engineering and phishing are the most consistently successful initial access techniques used by attackers across every industry and organisation size. Ransomware operators, advanced persistent threat groups, and opportunistic attackers all rely on human manipulation to gain the initial foothold that technical exploitation cannot reliably deliver.
Orasec's social engineering and phishing simulation methodology tests every layer of your human attack surface from email phishing and spear phishing campaigns to vishing, smishing, pretexting, and physical social engineering scenarios ensuring your organisation's security awareness and procedural controls are resilient against the real world social engineering techniques targeting organisations today.
Email phishing remains the most prevalent and successful initial access vector across all attack categories. Generic phishing campaigns, targeted spear phishing, and business email compromise attacks exploit staff trust, urgency triggers, and brand impersonation to steal credentials, deliver malware, and gain unauthorised system access through deceptive email communications.
Spear phishing targets specific individuals with personalised, highly convincing email content crafted using open source intelligence about the target, their role, colleagues, and organisational context. Executive targeting, finance team compromise, and IT administrator credential theft through targeted spear phishing campaigns deliver significantly higher success rates than generic phishing attacks.
Voice phishing exploits verbal communication to manipulate staff into disclosing credentials, transferring funds, granting system access, or bypassing security procedures. IT helpdesk impersonation, executive fraud, and vendor impersonation calls target staff in high trust telephone interactions where visual verification is unavailable and social pressure is most effective.
SMS based phishing targets staff through mobile devices with credential harvesting links, malicious application installation prompts, and urgent action requests. Mobile attack surfaces are increasingly exploited as organisations extend system access to personal and corporate mobile devices.
Pretexting attacks construct fabricated scenarios to manipulate staff into taking actions that compromise security. Vendor impersonation, IT support pretexts, executive impersonation, and contractor access requests exploit staff trust in familiar roles and authority figures to bypass security controls and physical access restrictions.
Physical social engineering targets staff behaviour in facility environments tailgating, badge cloning pretexts, delivery impersonation, and on site manipulation exploit the gap between digital security awareness and physical security culture across organisational premises.
We design and execute realistic phishing simulation campaigns across your organisation testing staff response to credential harvesting attempts, malicious link clicks, attachment execution, and data submission through deceptive email communications aligned with real world phishing techniques and current threat actor tactics.
Our testers conduct targeted spear phishing simulations against high value individuals including executives, finance staff, IT administrators, and privileged account holders using open source intelligence to craft highly personalised and convincing attack scenarios that test security awareness under the most challenging conditions.
We simulate business email compromise scenarios targeting financial transactions, wire transfer requests, vendor payment changes, and credential harvesting through executive impersonation and trusted contact compromise testing the procedural controls and staff awareness that defend against high value financial social engineering attacks.
Our social engineers conduct controlled voice phishing campaigns targeting helpdesk staff, finance teams, executives, and IT administrators simulating IT support impersonation, executive fraud, vendor calls, and authority based manipulation to assess staff response to telephone based social engineering attacks.
We conduct SMS based phishing simulations targeting staff mobile devices with credential harvesting links and urgent action requests assessing mobile security awareness and the effectiveness of organisational controls governing staff response to mobile based attack attempts.
Our testers conduct controlled physical social engineering scenarios including tailgating simulation, pretexting based facility access attempts, delivery and contractor impersonation, and on site manipulation assessing physical security culture and staff challenge procedures across organisational premises.
For organisations requiring comprehensive human attack surface validation, Orasec conducts full social engineering red team operations combining phishing, spear phishing, vishing, smishing, pretexting, and physical social engineering into a complete real world human attack simulation across the entire organisation.
Publicly available information about the organisation, staff, roles, technologies, and operational context is gathered to build realistic attack scenarios and personalised phishing content that reflects the quality of targeting used by real world attackers.
Phishing, spear phishing, vishing, smishing, and pretexting scenarios are developed based on intelligence gathered crafting realistic, contextually relevant attack content aligned with current threat actor tactics and organisational specific targeting opportunities.
Social engineering campaigns are executed under strict rules of engagement with defined scope, safety procedures, and coordination protocols ensuring controlled, professional, and legally authorised simulation across all tested attack vectors.
Staff response data is collected across all simulation channels tracking click rates, credential submission, attachment execution, callback rates, and physical access concessions providing quantitative measurement of human attack surface exposure across the organisation.
Testing evaluates whether security monitoring, email filtering, incident reporting, and security operations capabilities detect and respond to simulated social engineering activity revealing detection gaps and reporting culture weaknesses across the organisation.
Findings are delivered in a detailed report with campaign results, staff behaviour analysis, process vulnerability documentation, and prioritised recommendations for security awareness improvement, procedural control strengthening, and technical control enhancement.
Connect with Orasec's certified social engineers to assess your phishing susceptibility, spear phishing exposure, vishing resilience, physical security culture, or full human attack surface. Identify real social engineering vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them.