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Simulated Attack Series

This allows you to test targeted users with phishing, attachment and credential harvesting campaigns.

Choose the type of attacks to send to your users.

  • Phishing: This simulates a phishing attack against your users. It lures your users to click a link in an email.
  • Credential Harvesting: This simulates an attack designed to obtain login ids and passwords. It lures your users to enter credentials into a fake website. No passwords are collected.
  • Attachment: This simulates an attack designed to deploy malicious attachments on your system. It lures your users to open an attachment in an email.

You can select a combination of the attack types.

You can also select the difficulty of the simulations from easiest to hardest and whether you want to enroll users in training following the simulation. By default users are enrolled in training that matches the selected attacks.