Are your employees susceptible to outside influences?
Social Engineering is a method that outside sources use to invade your secure systems by building inappropriate trust relationships with insiders, such as unsuspecting employees. In this way, these shrewd intruders can acquire sensitive information or inappropriate assess privileges to confidential information, such as organizational charts, phone numbers, procedures, or passwords.

Strengthening your security by locating potential weaknesses.
Venture's Social Engineering service allows you to assess the security awareness of your employees and identify procedural weaknesses. Our assessment can identify specific problem areas that might be addressed by additional employee training or topics for procedure development, allowing you to tar-get such programs more efficiently. More importantly, our Social Engineering service can help assess and improve employee security awareness and their handling of proprietary information in daily business operations.

Beating your enemies at their own game.
To evaluate your organization's vulnerability to social engineering attacks, Venture and its skilled security-professional partners attempt to gather this information using the same conventional and unconventional methods employed by recruiters, hackers, or industrial spies.

Our security professionals then attempt to gain further access into your organization as a means of assessing additional security problems. These methods include telephoning into the organization and posing as an insider. Generally performed from a remote site, this information-gathering process high-lights potential deficiencies in operating procedures, employee awareness, and corporate policy related to the handling of corporate confidential information by employees and other insiders.

Verified results you can count on, and act on.
We produce a written report, including an evaluation of any procedural flaws and associated risks. In addition, we recommend enhancements to corporate policy procedures and security awareness training. We deliver the report in bound hard copy and in electronic form on diskette in Microsoft Word™-compatible format. As an option, we can include our findings as part of an on-site Executive Briefing.