Social Engineering Testing
Many businesses have concentrated their security investments on enhancing their perimeter defenses. Multiple layers of protection such as Firewalls with built-in Intrusion Prevention Systems have been deployed in the past five years and are being updated daily with new attack signatures. External Security Assessments and Pen Tests are being performed regularly to ensure that hosts exposed to the Internet are patched in a timely manner and exploitable vulnerabilities are rapidly remediated. As a result, these businesses have made their network perimeters less penetrable to traditional cyber-attacks.
Today’s well-organized, profit-motivated hackers have recognized these changes and have adapted, in some cases targeting smaller businesses that are less likely to have significant headway in perimeter security. In many cases, hackers are employing well-crafted Social Engineering attacks that take advantage of a commonly found weakness – unsuspecting computer users who can be tricked into providing an attacker with access to internal network resources containing sensitive files about customers, employees, business partners, or intellectual property.
What is Social Engineering?
Social engineering is a method that is used to gain access to sensitive or confidential information about an organization, its customers, or employees. Social engineering is used to gain access to information via telephone conversations, malicious emails, or by physically entering an office building. The greatest damage occurs when a hacker or other malicious source tries to infiltrate a network by manipulating the human element to obtain system credentials. If successful, even the most secure systems are at risk - allowing a hacker or malicious user to do things like steal money or gain access to credit card and/or proprietary client information. The results can be catastrophic, costing a company hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and untold damages to its reputation.
Why Conduct a Social Engineering Test?
The goal of Networks Unlimited’s social engineering test is to determine whether our security consultants can obtain access to confidential or sensitive business information through conventional and unconventional tactics generally used by malicious sources. The result of our test will allow for a clear understanding of your employees' awareness, knowledge, and adherence to security policy. Networks Unlimited will identify where you are vulnerable and your level of exposure, and we will recommend the appropriate safeguards, updates to security policy, and employee education needed to counteract the threats of social engineering. We can…
- Find out what percentage of your staff clicks on html links in e-mail messages
- Test employees to determine if they enter info on a fake web site created by Networks Unlimited
- Evaluate employee responses and actions to fake phone calls requesting information
- Perform an on-site test of your physical security practices
The Benefits:
- Minimize theft or misuse of data
- Reduce the risk of regulatory non-compliance
- Mitigate risk by identifying vulnerabilities before they are exploited by an attacker
- Help to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
- Proven methodology that ensures quality, accuracy, and thoroughness of your test
How is Networks Unlimited’s Social Engineering Test Different?
We take a different approach to helping organizations manage and control their risks and security issues. Most other firms use only automated tools to measure risk areas. Networks Unlimited’s social engineering test emulates the approach used by hackers; we manually perform a controlled real life attack on your users and measure their response and actions to fake e-mail messages, false web sites, etc.
Analysis and Result Documentation
All results will be reviewed, analyzed and complied in a detailed report. We will discuss the findings with you, and provide recommendations of practical, proven measures aimed at raising awareness to increase your company’s internal security level to avoid a social engineering attack.
Our goal is to make sure you are protected on every front. Contact us today for a discussion of your needs and how Networks Unlimited’s Social Engineering Test can help you achieve the level of security your business requires.