Why organizations need it

Organizations often run awareness training but do not know whether employees can recognize suspicious emails, avoid unsafe actions, and report incidents quickly. A simulation provides evidence that can be used to improve awareness, reporting channels, email controls, and management visibility.

It also helps identify whether high-risk groups need role-based training rather than generic awareness material.

How Cryptika Delivers the Exercise

Cryptika works with management, information security, HR, legal, and communications stakeholders where needed to define objectives, target groups, timing, privacy rules, escalation path, and reporting boundaries.

The campaign is designed to be realistic enough to create useful evidence, but controlled enough to avoid unnecessary harm, embarrassment, or disruption. Results are reported in a way that supports improvement rather than blame.

• Credential-harvesting style simulations without collecting real passwords.
• Attachment or link awareness scenarios using safe test payloads.
• Business email compromise themes for finance or procurement teams.
• Executive-targeted simulations where approved by management.
• Post-training validation campaigns.
• Measurement of employee reporting behavior and response timing.

What the Client Should Prepare

The client should prepare management approval, target group lists, exclusion rules, internal reporting mailbox or process, privacy expectations, HR/legal constraints, communications plan, and any technical allowlisting or monitoring coordination required for the simulation.