Social Engineering and Red Team Testing
Social engineering is used for a broad range of malicious activities accomplished through human interactions. Employees can facilitate attacks if not tested and trained to spot incidents even with the best technical control measures.
Social Engineering and Red Team Testing
Regular phishing emails are common within workplaces to try and keep staff aware of threats. However, they are not only one part of the solution. Successful social engineering attempts are one of the most common methods attackers use to achieve system compromise. There are a variety of common vectors, including email and voice calls.
North Stars Red Team is well trained and proficient at imitating real-life threats and can help identify weaknesses, whether in employee training or technical controls. An advanced social engineering exercise allows you to assess the maturity of the security of your business.
What we do
Testing can include but is not limited to:
Phishing - One we are all familiar with, these are email-based solicitations designed to lure a person into doing something for an attacker. For example, installing a remote agent. More targeted forms of this attack are spear-phishing and often utilised as a part of an advanced social engineering engagement.
Vishing - This is the voice variant of phishing and takes place over the phone. When was the last time this was tested on your organisation? Often employees are aware of Phishing emails, but could they be susceptible to someone imitating a member of the IT department or a third party requesting they install updates?
Tailgating - Tailgating is one of the most common types of physical social engineering. Physical social engineering often intends to introduce something malicious into a building. Tailgating is the act of waiting for an authorised person to access a restricted area and following them to gain unauthorised access.
Features of this service
How we work
Strategic scoping call with our leading technical advisor to find out your exact requirements
Tailor a roadmap to exactly what you need. We look to partner with our clients and be the trusted advisor they need
Our onboarding process is streamlined and smooth to ensue there is little to no disruption to your service
Your continuous security plan will give you the confidence in your security trusting an accredited professional partner is on hand 24/7
How we do it
North Star will engage with the client to determine their requirements and ensure that the engagement is correctly scoped to deliver on those requirements and make sure all of the correct legal requirements are satisfied.
North Star will engage with the client to determine their requirements and ensure that the engagement is correctly scoped to deliver on those requirements and make sure all of the correct legal requirements are satisfied
This phase helps obtain information about available services, potential versions of the services and get a general understanding of the environment that will be tested
Using all of the information gathered in the reconnaissance phase, North Star will determine where the potential risk of exploitation lies and create a plan to verify those findings
During this phase, and as agreed with the client in the pre-engagement phase North Star will attempt to exploit any vulnerabilities or misconfigurations identified in the previous phases to confirm that the risk exists
Depending on the agreed approach for exploitation, North Star may also attempt to gain further access from the compromised host(s) further into the client’s network or attempt to obtain sensitive information
As with all of North Star services, we will provide detailed expert advice in our report to help align your infrastructure with industry best practice security standards
As far as is possible, the systems tested will be returned to their pre-test state to remove any uploaded files or elevated accounts that were created
Our Happy Customers
From a business perspective, North Star provide an efficient, thorough, and cost-effective security service which has benefitted thinkmoney considerably over the course of the last year.
From a business perspective, North Star provide an efficient, thorough, and cost-effective security service which has benefitted thinkmoney considerably over the course of the last year.
Their knowledge in the subject matter was excellent and I found them easy to engage, personable and approachable.
It’s really refreshing to work with experts who act as an extension of our team. North Star don’t stop at identifying issues, they are happy to work with us to solve them too.
If you are looking for a company to really deliver on the service they are offering, I would look no further. Very quick and easy process. They completed the report within a tight timeframe and offered plenty of helpful advice!
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