Phishing & Social Engineering Simulation
Test the human layer the way an adversary actually does.
People are the most targeted way in, and the least tested. Ashenden runs realistic social-engineering simulations across the channels adversaries actually use, email, voice, SMS, messaging and in-person pretexting, so you learn how your people respond before a real attacker finds out.
The scenarios are built for your organisation, not pulled from a template: reconnaissance, credible pretexts, and current events, delivered across multiple channels. Anyone who engages gets private, targeted coaching, because the goal is a stronger team, not a public leaderboard.
What leadership receives is a clear, quiet read on the human layer: where the exposure is, how quickly people report, and whether it is actually improving over time.
Held to one standard, end to end.
Bespoke scenario design
Reconnaissance-led pretexts built for your people, not templates.
Multi-channel delivery
Email, voice, SMS, messaging apps and physical pretexting.
Private coaching
Targeted micro-training for those who engage: no shame, no leaderboards.
Time-to-report metrics
How fast people escalate, not just whether they clicked.
Department heat maps
Where the exposure concentrates, tracked over time.
Board-ready reporting
The human layer, connected to real organisational risk.
- Organisations concerned about the human layer
- Financial, legal and healthcare firms
- Family offices with household staff
- Anyone subject to targeted social engineering
- Won't this just embarrass staff who fall for it?
- No: that is exactly what we avoid. Results are private, coaching is one-to-one, and there are no public leaderboards. The aim is a more resilient team, measured by improvement over time.
- Do you test more than email?
- Yes. Real social engineering spans voice calls, SMS, messaging apps and in-person pretexting, so we simulate across all of them, because attackers do.
- What does leadership actually get?
- A clear read on the human layer: heat maps of where exposure sits, time-to-report metrics, and quarter-on-quarter trends, connected to organisational risk in language a board can act on.
Speak to us, in confidence.
Tell us what you are weighing up. The first conversation is private and unhurried, with the people who would actually hold the work, not a sales desk.