Your technology is secure.
Your people are your attack surface.
We find out how exposed they are.
85% of successful cyberattacks begin with a human — not a technical vulnerability.
SIRI Security's social engineering practice assesses the human layer of your security — phishing simulations, vishing campaigns, pretexting exercises, physical tailgating, and USB drop assessments — with behaviour analysis, training recommendations, and all findings documented under attorney-client privilege.
Overview
Social Engineering Assessments: Technical Depth Meets Legal Oversight
Human beings are the most consistently exploited element in any organisation’s security posture. No amount of technical hardening fully compensates for employees who will click a convincing phishing link, hold a door open for a confident stranger, or read out a one-time password to a caller who sounds authoritative.
Our social engineering assessments are designed to measure — not blame — the human layer. Findings are used constructively to improve security culture, awareness training, and process controls. We do not name individuals in client-facing reports.
We simulate the techniques used by real threat actors — from opportunistic phishing campaigns to sophisticated, intelligence-led spear phishing that targets specific executives with personalised lures drawn from open-source intelligence.
AI Has Changed the Social Engineering Threat Landscape
Generative AI has dramatically lowered the cost and increased the sophistication of social engineering attacks — enabling personalised phishing at scale, AI voice cloning for vishing, and deepfake video for executive impersonation. These attacks are no longer theoretical — they are being used against organisations in India and globally.
We assess your organisation’s resilience to next-generation AI-assisted social engineering — including AI voice clone vishing simulations and deepfake-resistant employee awareness training — so your team is prepared for threats that are already in the wild.
of successful cyberattacks begin with a social engineering component — making human security your single most important defensive layer
No technical security control prevents a motivated social engineer who understands your organisation, your people, and your culture.
Phishing simulations using generic templates miss the real threat
Monthly phishing simulations using standard templates train employees to spot the simulation — not the targeted, context-aware spear phishing that sophisticated attackers actually use against high-value targets.
Executive impersonation bypasses financial controls
Business email compromise attacks impersonating CEOs, CFOs, and legal counsel have resulted in crore-scale fraudulent transfers in Indian organisations. The attack succeeds through social pressure and authority manipulation, not technical exploitation.
Physical security is undermined by helpful employees
Technical perimeter security is bypassed daily through physical social engineering — tailgating through secure doors, posing as IT support, and exploiting employees' natural inclination to be helpful.
Privileged users are the highest-value targets
IT administrators, finance approvers, and executives with elevated system access are the primary targets of sophisticated social engineering. Standard awareness training is not calibrated to their specific threat profile.
Services Offered
What We Handle
- Email phishing campaigns — targeted and mass simulation
- Spear phishing — OSINT-driven executive and high-value target lures
- Vishing (voice phishing) — credential harvesting and account reset calls
- SMS smishing campaigns
- Physical intrusion — tailgating, social access to restricted areas
- Pretexting — impersonation of IT support, vendors, regulators
- USB drop attack simulation
- Insider threat simulation — malicious insider scenario modelling
- AI-generated deepfake impersonation resistance testing
- AI voice clone vishing simulation
- Executive targeting — CEO fraud and Business Email Compromise simulation
- Security awareness training — post-assessment targeted delivery
- Security culture measurement — baseline and post-training benchmarking
What We Assess
Social engineering testing across
every human attack vector.
From targeted spear phishing campaigns through vishing assessments, physical tailgating, and post-assessment security awareness training.
Phishing Simulation Campaigns
Realistic phishing campaigns calibrated to your sector, your organisation's public information, and current threat intelligence — far beyond generic template emails to simulate the targeted attacks your highest-risk users actually face.
Spear Phishing & Executive BEC
Targeted spear phishing against identified high-value individuals — executives, IT administrators, and finance personnel — simulating the business email compromise attacks that consistently cause the largest financial losses.
Vishing (Voice Phishing) Assessment
Telephone-based social engineering campaigns — impersonating IT support, vendors, regulators, and colleagues to assess whether your employees protect sensitive information and system access over the phone.
Physical Tailgating & Impersonation
Controlled physical social engineering assessment — tailgating through secure access points, visitor impersonation, IT support pretexting, and dumpster diving — revealing the physical vulnerabilities that technical controls cannot address.
USB & Removable Media Drop
USB drive drop assessments in parking areas, reception, and common spaces — testing whether employees connect unknown devices to corporate systems. A consistently effective initial access vector.
Security Awareness Programme
Post-assessment security awareness training — calibrated to the specific failure modes identified in your assessment, targeting the employee groups and behaviour patterns the exercise revealed as highest risk.
Why SIRI
Social engineering testing backed by
legal authority and behavioural insight.
Social engineering findings reveal sensitive information about individual employees. SIRI's legal practice ensures all assessment activities are properly authorised, ethically conducted, and fully protected by privilege.
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🔒All Findings Under Legal Privilege
Social engineering assessments produce sensitive findings about specific employees and their security behaviour. SIRI documents all findings under privilege — protecting individuals and the organisation from exposure in regulatory investigations.
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🎯Sector-Specific Threat Intelligence
Our social engineering campaigns are built from threat intelligence specific to your sector and organisation — replicating the actual techniques used against companies like yours, not generic phishing templates.
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📋Legal Authorisation Framework
All physical and digital social engineering activities conducted under a comprehensive legal authorisation framework — protecting your organisation from liability and ensuring assessed employees cannot claim they were unlawfully targeted.
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🌐Behaviour Change Focus
Our assessment output focuses on behaviour change, not just vulnerability identification — providing specific, actionable training recommendations based on the actual failure modes observed in your organisation.
How We Assess
Four phases from scoping to training.
From OSINT reconnaissance through campaign execution, analysis, and targeted behaviour change training.
Intelligence Gathering & Scoping
OSINT reconnaissance of your organisation, social media mapping, public executive information, vendor relationships, and organisational structure — the same intelligence gathering a real attacker would conduct.
Campaign Execution
Phishing, vishing, physical, and USB campaigns executed per agreed scope — with real-time tracking of click rates, credential entry, callback rates, physical access success, and device insertion events.
Analysis & Legal Risk Mapping
Comprehensive analysis of campaign results — overall susceptibility rates, highest-risk employee groups, most effective attack techniques, and legal risk mapping of identified vulnerabilities to regulatory and contractual obligations.
Training & Remediation
Targeted security awareness training calibrated to observed failure modes, specific guidance for high-risk employee groups, policy recommendations, and technical control recommendations where human behaviour cannot be reliably changed.
Client Benefits
Why Clients Choose SIRI Law LLP
Constructive, Not Punitive
We measure susceptibility to improve it — not to embarrass individuals. Reports present aggregate metrics and process findings, not individual naming.
OSINT-Driven Realism
Spear phishing lures are built from real open-source intelligence — the same sources a real attacker would use. This makes our simulations genuinely realistic.
AI-Era Threat Simulation
We simulate AI-assisted social engineering techniques — voice cloning, deepfake impersonation, AI-generated personalised phishing — to prepare your team for current and emerging threats.
Post-Assessment Training
Every social engineering engagement includes a post-assessment training session — targeted to the specific weaknesses identified, not generic awareness content.
Representative Matters
Typical Engagements
All matters described generically to protect client confidentiality.
Phishing Campaign – Financial Services
Conducted a targeted phishing campaign across 500 employees — achieving a 34% click rate and 18% credential submission rate before security awareness training, reducing to 8% and 3% in a follow-up assessment 6 months after targeted training.
Executive Spear Phishing
Targeted the CFO and Finance team of a manufacturing company with an OSINT-driven spear phishing campaign impersonating their auditor — demonstrating a realistic Business Email Compromise attack path.
Physical Intrusion Assessment
Gained physical access to a data centre floor through a combination of tailgating and pretexting as an equipment vendor — exposing critical infrastructure without any technical attack.
AI Vishing Simulation
Conducted an AI voice clone vishing simulation targeting the IT helpdesk — successfully obtaining password resets for 3 accounts by cloning the voice of a known manager using publicly available audio.
What to Expect
Client Outcomes
Campaign Report with Metrics
Click rates, credential submission rates, reporting rates — segmented by department, seniority, and campaign type. Trend data where repeat assessments have been conducted.
Process Vulnerability Findings
Not just click rates — process weaknesses that enabled success (e.g., no callback verification for password resets, no DMARC enforcement, inadequate physical access controls).
Targeted Training Content
Post-assessment awareness training content — tailored to the specific scenarios your employees fell for, not generic phishing awareness slides.
Case Study · Executive BEC Simulation
Manufacturing company prevents ₹1.8Cr loss after
BEC simulation reveals finance team vulnerability.
SIRI Security conducted a targeted BEC simulation against the finance team of a Hyderabad manufacturing company — impersonating the MD and requesting an urgent wire transfer to a new vendor account. Three of five finance team members would have processed the transfer without the verification controls that the simulation revealed were missing. The organisation implemented dual-approval controls, verbal verification requirements, and targeted training — preventing an identical real attack six months later.
The SIRI Difference
Without SIRI vs. With SIRI.
Generic security awareness training
Template phishing emails employees learn to recognise
Monthly phishing simulations using recognisable template formats train employees to spot the simulation — not the sophisticated, context-aware spear phishing that sophisticated attackers actually deploy
No physical social engineering assessment
Awareness training covers digital threats only — physical tailgating, impersonation, and facility access vulnerabilities are never tested or addressed
No sector-specific threat calibration
Generic awareness content not calibrated to your sector's specific social engineering threat landscape
Individual employee vulnerability exposed without privilege
Training platform susceptibility data records individual employee failures — creating data that may be discoverable in employment disputes or regulatory investigations without legal protection
SIRI Security Social Engineering Assessment
Targeted spear phishing using your organisation's real context
Campaigns built from OSINT reconnaissance of your actual organisation — executive names, vendor relationships, current projects, and sector-specific lures that replicate real attack sophistication
Full-scope physical + digital assessment
Assessment covers all social engineering vectors — phishing, vishing, physical tailgating, impersonation, and USB drops — providing a complete picture of human vulnerability across all attack surfaces
Sector-specific threat intelligence
Campaigns calibrated to the specific TTPs used against organisations in your sector — replicating the attacks your employees will actually face, not generic simulations
All findings under attorney-client privilege
Individual and organisational vulnerability data documented under privilege — protecting employees from identification in employment proceedings and the organisation from regulatory disclosure
Your people are the most targeted
element of your security architecture.
Test them before attackers do.
Book a confidential social engineering assessment with SIRI Security. We will reveal your human attack surface with the sophistication of a real threat actor — and help you close the gaps.
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