Do you know where your weakest link is?
Spear phishing is a highly-targeted form of attack. Spear phishers use carefully crafted emails alongside social engineering tactics to convince individuals to both open and engage with the email.
Consumer phishing is a type of attack in which a criminal sends a deceptive email that appears to come from a respected brand. This is usually done in order to gain individual account credentials.
Data breaches are frequently the result of intrusions caused by credential theft or the installation of malware. This is in turn fueled by social engineering and identify deception techniques.
Ransomware is a form of malware that infects the computers of its victims. From there, content is encrypted, and the victim is required to pay a ransom in order to regain access to their content.
Email compromisation, or Business Email Compromise (BEC), is a sophisticated email attack in which a criminal sends a victim’s emails to an organization’s employees. It’s also known as CEO fraud.
Social Engineering
The #1 cybersecurity threat for businesses is social engineering attacks. These types of attacks will be at the top for a long time to come.
Social engineering attacks, which rely on human interaction and fraudulent behavior to trick people, are the driving force behind spear phishing, email compromises, and ransomware.
We view social engineering campaigns as a must-have service for every business and organization. And it’s why we offer social engineering assessments for:
- email phishing,
- telephone/text,
- and onsite/social pretexting.
Employee actions lead to cybersecurity incidents. Although traditional cybersecurity attacks leverage technology-based system vulnerabilities, such as misconfigurations and software bugs, social engineering attacks take advantage of human nature and the inherit vulnerabilities in people.
Unethical Hackers use deception in order to trick targeted victims into performing acts that are harmful to a company’s network.
At MainNerve, we make the social engineering process painless and simple. Our team has conducted (and successfully delivered) numerous social engineering assessments for businesses of all sizes and types… and we can help you protect your company from the insider threat (your employees).
A social engineering campaign can be used as a one-time method of assessing the effectiveness of a security awareness training, or to support new and current training programs. Using the latest intelligence on social engineering techniques, a social engineering test can evaluate employees against general phishing and “spear-phishing” attacks that are intended to exploit trust and lack of security awareness.
Deploys a distinct simulated phishing email to test whether employees click on malicious links that they should not. It is a single test where no exploitation occurs, but only collects general information on the effectiveness of the attack and the employee’s response.
Tests user security awareness by manipulating individuals in your organization to perform unsafe actions or provide sensitive information over email. The content used in these scenarios ranges from generic, spam-like messages to client-specific emails that are designed to appear to originate from internal users, third-party service providers, or clients.
MainNerve offers two options for gathering information. We recommend that the names and email addresses of the intended recipients during the social engineering test be provided beforehand. If such a list is not provided, where MainNerve must search or otherwise build a list through manual research, additional costs will be incurred.
A list of email addresses of the employees targeted, are provided by the customer. Additionally, the customer may provide information that can help with the targeting, such s programs used or companies they work with. This type of social engineering test represents the simpler and quicker method as research is not required in order to build a list.
A list of employees email addresses is not provided to MainNerve, resulting in a lot of manual research on our part. Research includes employing tools and techniques for harvesting names and email address from open source directories, social media sites, and customer web sites. This extra research will incur additional costs.
Network penetration testing assists with the identification and examination of vulnerabilities for external, Internet-facing and internal, intranet systems. A network pen test will help determine whether an attack can exploit and compromise targeted systems. Take the next step to improving your business’ security with a network pen test.
Web application penetration testing is designed to assess and test the state of your web-facing applications, and provide actionable remediation recommendations for enhancing your security. Ensure that your web applications are protected from malicious cyber threat actors. MainNerve web app pen tests are designed to review all types of web servers.
MainNerve’s compliance solutions are designed to help fill one of the biggest challenges for businesses: staying in alignment with the exhaustive list of Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC) requirements. From PCI DSS and HIPAA, to CJIS and FINRA, MainNerve can help your business navigate the GRC landscape with specialized penetration tests.
What Our Clients Say
In 12 years of tests, you are the first company that found anything higher than a low risk. Phone and cameras were never discovered in the test, let alone accessed. Great to always get a different perspective from a test.
MainNerve provided an extremely fast turn around when speed was our biggest factor. The project went smoothly and I would highly recommend them!
I would highly recommend MainNerve for all of your network system testing needs. From my initial contact, all the way through the end of the services I received, everyone I encountered was courteous, professional, knowledgeable, patient, and very helpful. As a small business owner, who’s business was shut down as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, MainNerve’s service fees were extremely reasonable making it affordable to ensure my network is secure from hackers. I will definitely be a repeat customer!! Thanks MainNerve!!
Sheena was great in guiding us though what was a new process for us. A client had asked us for a third party penn test report and she was very helpful in helping us choose the correct product and in determining the scope.
I was quite pleasantly surprised by the engagement. I think the thing I liked best about it was that everyone at MainNerve really took the time to listen and understand what we did, why we were doing it, and our business goals. It gave us confidence that we were in the right hands.
This is my second encounter with MainNerve and my experience this time was even better, which is impressive considering my first encounter was great. I definitely recommend their services for your testing needs.
Always nice to have a dependable vendor that is fully committed and reasonably priced.
This was our third time around getting penetration and vulnerability scans through Main Nerve. Transactions have always been quick and easy and all involved have been very responsive.
Always nice to have a dependable vendor that is fully committed and reasonably priced.
It’s been a great partnership for the last 4 years. When NYDFS Cybersecurity regulation was announced back in 2017, I did not have much experience in the security fields such as risk assessment, vulnerability assessment, and Penetration testing and was not comfortable creating the plan. I was searching for information on the internet and came across multiple companies. I contacted MainNerve and they explained the process as well as their background which gave me comfort in the overall process as well as the confidence in the MainNerve team. Also, the cost was very reasonable. Going through the signing, planning, assessment, testing, and reporting, they were in constant contact with me and updated me with steps they are taking and when I can expect the next milestone. When we had delays, they were patient and worked with us. We finished all the assessment and testing in the expected time and now we just do it annually. As our IT environment expands, we increase the scope of the testing, and MainNerve has been very flexible with our plans, budget, and timing. I have introduced the MainNerve to colleagues in other companies in NY and they are also satisfied with the service.
We value our professional relationship with MainNerve. Their employees are friendly and extremely responsive. They always take care of our clients as if they were their own, while maintaining the penetration and social engineering testing. We couldn’t ask for a better Cybersecurity partner.
We were very happy with the experience and the deliverable/reporting.
A great organization to work with and true experts and professionals in the field. Their entire team was very responsive and helpful throughout the entire testing process.
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