Social Engineering & IAM Assessment
Modern attackers increasingly log in instead of breaking in.
Assess the security of your identity controls before attackers
use stolen credentials to gain access.
Identity Is the New Perimeter
Attackers do not always need to exploit a technical vulnerability. Stolen credentials, reused passwords, and convincing phishing messages can let a malicious actor authenticate through the same external login services used by legitimate employees.
When an attacker has your email address and password - they become you.
A Cybermode Social Engineering & IAM Assessment evaluates how identity controls, monitoring, and end users respond to realistic attack techniques in a controlled, customer-authorized engagement.
Password Spraying
Password spraying attempts to access multiple user accounts with a small set of commonly used passwords. By spreading login attempts across many usernames or email addresses, an attacker may avoid the security mechanisms that detect repeated brute-force attempts against a single account.
Cybermode will perform an authorized password spraying assessment against a customer-selected external login target. Testing is routed through the encrypted, anonymized connections to reproduce the obscured origin commonly used by threat actors. The scope, timing, and safeguards of the assessment are coordinated with the customer.
Credential Stuffing
Credential stuffing uses usernames and passwords from publicly disclosed data breaches to gain unauthorized access to other Internet facing resources. The technique exploits the common practice of reusing passwords across multiple platforms.
Cybermode correlates customer credentials identified in external breach data and performs an authorized credential stuffing assessment against a customer-selected external login target. The test determines whether exposed email and password pairs still create a viable path into customer assets and resources.
Advanced Phishing Assessment
This assessment uses a controlled phishing scenario against targeted end users. A forged message, such as an email appearing to come from a legitimate authority, directs selected users to a clone of a legitimate login page routed through an interception proxy. The exercise measures whether users attempt to authenticate and whether technical controls detect or prevent the interaction.
The Advanced Phishing Assessment has the ability to break traditional multi-factor authentication (MFA) which is the current gold standard of identity and access management security.
Assessment Outcomes
- Measure password policy and account lockout effectiveness
- Validate multi-factor authentication and conditional access coverage
- Identify credentials exposed through external data breaches
- Evaluate identity monitoring, alerting, and incident response
- Measure user resilience to realistic phishing scenarios
- Prioritize practical IAM, awareness, and access-control remediation
The result is a realistic view of how well your identities, authentication systems, and users resist the techniques attackers use to turn credentials into access.
