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Social Engineering

The price of the average successful social engineering attack reached $4.1 million in 2022, with that number only growing in 2024 and beyond.

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Find Risks Before They Become Threats

Through Social Engineering, proactively pinpoint your organization’s most vulnerable attack vectors, bolster cross-team awareness of common (and uncommon) threats, and save millions of dollars in financial, reputational, and operational losses.

With social engineering attacks taking, on average, 270 days to identify and contain, a multifaceted approach has never been more crucial. Introducing Packetlabs Social Engineering–divided into six core competencies for maximum flexibility and remediation recommendations.

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Social Engineering

The price of the average successful social engineering attack reached $4.1 million in 2022, with that number only growing in 2024 and beyond.

Through Social Engineering, proactively pinpoint your organization’s most vulnerable attack vectors, bolster cross-team awareness of common (and uncommon) threats, and save millions of dollars in financial, reputational, and operational losses.

With social engineering attacks taking, on average, 270 days to identify and contain, a multifaceted approach has never been more crucial. Introducing Packetlabs Social Engineering–divided into six core competencies for maximum flexibility and remediation recommendations.

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Find Risks Before They Become Threats

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Leverage Six Core Competencies

Packetlabs’ Social Engineering engagements are comprised of: Phishing (Allowlisted); Spear-Phishing (Non-allowlisted); Vishing; Smishing: Physical Access (Tailgating): and USB Drops. Most commonly, Packetlabs conducts a Phishing for Compromise campaign to gain unauthorized access to externally exposed gateways and applications. This includes any SaaS used by the organization, such as email and cloud providers, password managers, and code repositories. The goal of this engagement is to answer the ‘so what’ for when credentials or access is obtained.

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Tailored Approach

DevSecOps works to improve the overall security of software. It is hailed as a “tactical trifecta” that interlinks three disciplines: development, security, and operations.

Our best-in-class methodologies dig deeper to deliver more findings and more identified business impacts.

Benefit From CREST-Certified Expertise

As a CREST and SOC 2 Type II accredited penetration testing firm, Packetlabs’ 95% manual pentesting goes beyond industry standards. Our best-in-class methodology digs deeper into your organization’s existing detection and response cycle to deliver more actionable, high-impact findings.

In-Depth Methodologies

Our Penetration Testing methodology is derived from the SANS Pentest Methodology, the MITRE ATT&CK framework for enterprises, and NIST SP800-115 to ensure compliance with the majority of regulatory requirements. This methodology is comprehensive and has been broken up based on which areas can be tested with automation and those which require extensive manual testing.

Emphasis on Cross-Team Learning

82% of social engineering-related data breaches contain a human element, making the outcome of Social Engineering exercises critical for Employee Awareness Training, cybersecurity roadmaps for stakeholders, regulatory compliance, and, above all, a security posture strong enough to fend off increasingly sophisticated attacks.

Why Invest in Social Engineering Exercises?

The Demonstration of How Attacks Can Exploit Cloud Environments

Packetlabs will demonstrate how attackers can exploit app-based consent by creating an application and coercing users into granting permissions, as well as craft pretexts and scenarios to gain initial access to the cloud console or an account in either Google Workspace, Entra ID, and/or Cloud Console Access.

The Identification of Your Attack Surface

By gathering a list of external portals and gateways–and any information on the Dark Web about your organization to aid in discovering information about the endpoint operating system and browsers used–your assigned ethical hackers will identify the scope of your attack surface.

Thorough Testing of Staff and Processes

Packetlabs will create a narrative tailored to the organization and formulate a scenario designed to trigger urgency in staff, which can make the victim more likely to comply, in order to gauge the effectiveness of Employee Awareness Training.

The In-Depth Assessment of Physical Security

Packetlabs will attempt to gain unauthorized access to a restricted physical area. Our team will gather information about the organization's layout, security measures, and personnel as part of the Open Source Intelligence Gathering (OSINT) phase.

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Penetration Testing Methodology

Our Penetration Security Testing methodology is derived from the SANS Pentest Methodology, the MITRE ATT&CK framework, and the NIST SP800-115 to uncover security gaps.

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