Test Your Human Firewall Against Social Engineering Attacks
Go beyond conventional phishing tests to explore the depths of how hackers can exploit your users, empowering you with insights to improve your security awareness program and related controls like email and file security.
Impactful Insights to Evolve Your Strategy
By forming an understanding of your challenges, requirements, and goals, Bishop Fox works with you to define a Red Team engagement that meets the specific needs of your organization. Through carefully crafted attack simulations that mirror real-world criminal tactics, we identify specific vulnerabilities in human security controls while measuring the effectiveness of existing awareness programs.
This comprehensive approach enables your security team to prioritize training investments, strengthen incident response procedures, and demonstrate measurable improvements in organizational security posture to stakeholders and regulatory bodies.
Rather than generic awareness training that employees ignore, our targeted recommendations address the specific psychological tactics and attack vectors that pose the greatest risk to your organization, ensuring your security awareness program delivers measurable results that protect both digital assets and business reputation.
ADVANCED ATTACK EMULATION
By emulating all the stages of social engineering attacks – from pretexting to lure creation and payload delivery – Bishop Fox’s Red Team provides a clear understanding of how sophisticated social engineering techniques are executed and just how much damage is possible from a successful attack.
In-depth OSINT and Pretext Development
Every social engineering engagement is carefully crafted to your organization’s unique context, including logistics, user targeting, payload development, and more.
Multi-vector Approach
Leveraging enterprise chat, phone, and physical attack vectors provides a more accurate assessment of your organization’s resilience to a skilled adversary.
Complete Scenario Flexibility
Engagements are developed in collaboration with your security team to test both users and technical controls such as email, file, or physical security.
Attack Development Feedback Loop
Testing your users can be a sensitive endeavor. We work with you every step of the way in the development of the attack to make sure it strikes the right balance.
“Ride-along” with Elite Red Teamers
Get inside the head of a skilled attacker and see how TTPs are executed so you can apply that insight to sharpen your defenses.
Realistic Exploitation Attempts
Know just how far a real attacker could go about leveraging social engineering in combination with other advanced tactics that are typically used in Red Teaming.
Post-engagement Report
You'll get a complete outline of the attack narrative with detailed breakdowns of actions performed, defensive performance, and results against target objectives.
Full Findings Presentation
Receive a complete walkthrough of findings to ensure all stakeholders understand technical findings, risks, and recommendations.
Recommendations for Program Improvement
Apply insights from the engagement to evolve your user risk, awareness, and culture program.
RED TEAM EXPERTISE & INGENUITY
UNDERSTAND HOW ATTACKERS EXPLOIT USERS
ACTIONABLE RESULTS
KEY BENEFITS
Demonstrate the Business Impact of Your User Risk
Accurately account for the potential consequences of an attacker successfully compromising one of your users and gauge your organization’s ability to respond.
Pressure-tested Security Investments & Controls
Verify the effectiveness of your security measures like email security systems, endpoint security, enterprise chat platforms, and physical security protocols.
Insight Into How Your Users Could be “Hacked”
Get full transparency into all phases of a sophisticated phishing test campaign, providing novel intelligence to implement in your security program.
Augment Your Approaches to User Testing & Risk Measurement
Apply fresh perspectives and data to the current initiatives and KPIs that make up your testing and awareness program.
Improved Communication of User Risk to Stakeholders
Capture key insights and detailed examples of user risk to leverage in reporting to your organization’s senior leadership and board.
Improvement of Your User Risk & Awareness Program
Identify new strategies to better engage your users, promote a culture of security, and take your program to the next level.
Alethe Denis
Senior Security Consultant
Alethe Denis is a Senior Security Consultant at Bishop Fox. She is best known for social engineering, open-source intelligence (OSINT), and performing security assessments and trainings for both the private and public sectors with emphasis on critical infrastructure organizations. Alethe was awarded a DEF CON Black Badge at DEF CON 27 for Winning the 10th annual Social Engineering Capture the Flag (SECTF) contest. Using both OSINT and Social Engineering skills, she compromised her target Fortune 500 company using just a telephone. She, along with her teammates, received a bronze, silver, most valuable OSINT, and black badge award from a series of TraceLabs capture-the-flag contests, including first place in the August 2020 DEF CON edition of the TraceLabs Missing Persons OSINT CTF.
She’s a frequent conference speaker and podcast guest, including speaking at DerbyCon, BsidesSF and ConINT, as well as an appearance on the TraceLabs, Layer 8 Conference, and Darknet Diaries podcasts.
Alethe is always focused on giving back to the information and cybersecurity community, including her work conducting free Security Awareness Trainings and hosting workshops for people who want to get into the cybersecurity industry.
A social engineering test is a simulated attack engagement that measures how well an organization's employees, processes, and technical controls hold up against real-world manipulation tactics — including phishing, vishing (voice phishing), pretexting, and physical intrusion attempts. Unlike generic awareness training, it identifies specific, exploitable weaknesses in your organization's human attack surface.
Bishop Fox tests phishing (email), vishing (phone-based social engineering), pretexting (impersonation scenarios), and physical intrusion. Engagements are scoped to your environment and can include enterprise chat platforms and other channels relevant to how your organization actually operates.
You receive a post-engagement report detailing the full attack narrative, actions performed, defensive performance against each attempt, and results measured against your stated objectives. This is followed by a findings presentation with stakeholders and specific recommendations to improve your security awareness program.
Attackers increasingly use AI to create more convincing phishing content, deepfake audio for vishing calls, and realistic voice clones to impersonate executives or colleagues. Bishop Fox's engagements account for these AI-enabled tactics, testing organizational resilience against threats that are harder to detect than traditional social engineering attempts.
Phishing simulations typically test one channel: email. Social engineering testing is broader — it combines multiple attack vectors (email, phone, enterprise chat platforms, and in-person physical access attempts) into a single coordinated campaign, the way a real attacker would chain them together to compromise an organization.
Engagement length depends on scope, the number of attack vectors tested, and the complexity of pretext development, but most engagements run several weeks from initial OSINT and pretext development through execution and reporting.
Yes. Engagements are developed collaboratively with your security team throughout the attack development process to ensure the simulation is realistic but appropriately scoped — the goal is to surface actionable risk data, not to embarrass or penalize individual employees.
Engagements are run by Bishop Fox's Red Team, including senior consultants with hands-on competitive social engineering experience (e.g., DEF CON Social Engineering Capture the Flag winners), applying real adversary tradecraft rather than generic scripted pretexts.
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