Strengthening human defences against social engineering threats
Social engineering attacks—phishing, vishing, smishing—remain one of the most effective ways to breach an organisation, often bypassing technical defences by targeting people.
As NCC Group’s 2024 Threat Intelligence Report highlights, AI-driven phishing and deepfake impersonation are making attacks harder to detect and easier to scale.
Your employees are your first line of defence.
At NCC Group, we simulate realistic social engineering attacks to uncover vulnerabilities, measure risk, and build lasting resilience. From one-off tests to complex blended campaigns, our goal is simple: to strengthen your people before threat actors can exploit them.
Measure susceptibility
Determine your current susceptibility to social engineering attacks through simulations of phishing, vishing, smishing, or blended attacks.
Build lasting resilience
Improve your employees awareness and resilience to modern social engineering attacks with campaigns and training that evolve in sophistication.
Evidence improvement
Demonstrate measurable progress with clear assessment results that show how your organisation’s defences improve over time.
Facing a targeted social engineering attack, would your people recognize the threat?
Don’t wait to find out.
Talk to one of our social engineering experts to learn what a breach would look like for your organization.
Our Social Engineering Prevention services
NCC Group provides two levels of social engineering services: Measurement and Improvement. First, we assess how your employees respond to simulated attacks—phishing, vishing, smishing, and blended threats. Then, we help you strengthen weak points through tailored awareness programmes, repeat testing, and progressive complexity.
Whether you're a small team or a global enterprise, our scalable services are delivered by our dedicated social engineering security consultants. You’ll receive detailed reporting that gives you clear, actionable insights—and the confidence that your people are ready.
Social Engineering
Phishing
Simulated email attacks targeting password capture, malicious links, and data exposure. Single campaigns assess current susceptibility, while phased improvement programmes combine testing with training to build awareness. We take staff from spotting basic spam to recognising advanced, targeted phishing—preparing them for real-world threats with increasing complexity.
Social Engineering
Vishing
Simulated phone attacks using caller ID spoofing and social engineering to extract sensitive information. Assessments test staff response and policy effectiveness. From basic calls to advanced scenarios, we evaluate how well your people recognise and respond to voice-based threats—highlighting gaps in multi-factor authentication, process adherence, and awareness.
Social Engineering
Smishing
Simulated SMS attacks designed to trick users into revealing credentials or bypassing multi-factor authentication. Campaigns test how staff respond to fake messages, malicious links, and urgent requests. We assess mobile device exposure and awareness, helping you identify weaknesses and improve resilience against text-based social engineering threats.
Social Engineering
Deepfake Vishing
Determine if your organization is prepared for sophisticated social engineering attacks by simulating a voice cloning attack on senior staff and executives. Deepfake Vishing leverages AI-generated deepfake voice technology to impersonate real individuals to scam victims. Our service includes creating voice models to clone specific members of staff voices used to simulate threats targeting your organization and policies to detect and defend against such attacks.
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