Phishing Simulation Services That Test Your People Like Real AdversariesDo

Phishing simulation is an adversary emulation exercise that launches realistic phishing attacks against employees to measure actual susceptibility. Awareness training teaches employees about phishing risks through courses and quizzes. Security Brigade focuses exclusively on simulation — testing whether your people and security tools can detect and stop real-world phishing tactics, not just whether employees can pass a quiz.

No. We use a proprietary adversary simulation framework built specifically for red team-grade phishing engagements. Open-source tools like GoPhish are well-known to email security vendors and are easily detected and blocked. Our framework includes URL reputation bypass, payload obfuscation, sandbox evasion, and browser fingerprinting capabilities that commodity platforms cannot match.

A typical phishing simulation engagement runs 2 to 4 weeks depending on the number of target departments, campaign waves, and attack vectors scoped. This includes reconnaissance, campaign design, multi-wave execution, analytics collection, and comprehensive reporting. Complex engagements with post-click exploitation or multiple organizational units may require longer timelines.

Yes. Every engagement uses multi-template, multi-vector campaigns tailored per department and role. Finance teams receive invoice and payment-themed lures, HR receives recruitment-themed campaigns, executives receive board-level pretexts, and technical teams receive developer tool impersonation. This approach tests each group against the phishing pretexts they are most likely to encounter from real attackers.

Our proprietary framework is specifically designed to test and bypass email security controls including secure email gateways, URL reputation filters, and sandbox detection. If our campaigns are blocked, that is a positive finding documented in the report. If they bypass your defenses, you know exactly where the gaps are. Either outcome provides actionable intelligence for your security team.

Yes. Our phishing simulation engagements are designed to meet SEBI Cyber Security and Cyber Resilience Framework requirements for phishing resilience testing, as well as RBI cybersecurity framework mandates for banks, NBFCs, and payment aggregators. As a CERT-In empanelled auditor since 2008, Security Brigade meets the highest national compliance standards for security assessments.

We deliver Metabase BI dashboards with real-time analytics including email open rates, click-through rates, credential submission rates, time-to-click distribution, department-level heatmaps, device and browser fingerprinting data, and campaign wave comparisons. Leadership receives an executive deck with organizational risk scores, industry benchmark comparisons, and a prioritized remediation roadmap.

Phishing simulation focuses specifically on testing human susceptibility and email security controls through targeted phishing campaigns. A full red team assessment uses phishing as one attack vector alongside network exploitation, physical access, credential abuse, and lateral movement to achieve specific objectives like domain compromise or data exfiltration. Security Brigade offers both — and phishing simulation findings often feed directly into broader red team engagement scoping.

The engagement is coordinated with designated client stakeholders, but target employees are not informed in advance. This ensures authentic behavioral responses. After the campaign, organizations typically conduct a debrief or awareness session using anonymized results. Security Brigade provides department-level data without singling out individual employees, enabling constructive improvement rather than punitive action.

Yes. Every engagement includes a board-ready executive deck with non-technical language, risk quantification, department susceptibility scores, trend analysis for repeat engagements, and strategic recommendations. Our Metabase BI dashboards can also be presented directly in board meetings with interactive drill-down capability into department and campaign-level data.