People are the most targeted part of any Cyprus organisation, and most breaches start with someone being manipulated. We measure how your staff respond to realistic phishing, phone-based vishing and pretext scenarios — with clear authorisation and ethical boundaries.
We report on behaviour and process, never blaming individuals, so you can strengthen awareness and controls where it counts.
Our social engineering assessment is built for mature Cyprus banks, fintech and enterprises with an established security function, where a single overlooked flaw can turn into a reportable incident. We map your real environment, not a generic template, then test every path where trust is granted and every place where controls could be bypassed.
The result is clarity: a prioritised, exploitable-risk view of your social engineering attack surface that your team can act on immediately, backed by proof rather than a scanner's guesswork.
Social Engineering Assessment: manual, exploit-led coverage for Limassol & island-wide Cyprus businesses.
Why it matters
In Cyprus, security failures increasingly become regulatory and commercial problems, not only IT ones. A weakness that reaches customer or financial data can trigger a NIS2 resilience and TIBER-style obligation, damage hard-won client trust, and stall deals while security questionnaires go unanswered. Our social engineering assessment exists to remove that uncertainty before an attacker — or an auditor — finds the gap first.
By proving exactly what is exploitable and what it would cost, we turn a vague worry into a concrete, fundable remediation plan. Cyprus firms use our reports to close real gaps, satisfy CySEC, GDPR and NIS2 expectations, and demonstrate genuine due diligence to clients, partners and insurers — with a free retest to prove the fixes hold.
What we test
Targeted spear-phishing campaigns
Vishing (voice) pretext calls
Payload delivery & credential capture
Pretext-based information gathering
Awareness & reporting-rate metrics
Process and control gap analysis
Common vulnerabilities we uncover
High susceptibility to targeted phishing
Weak phone-based (vishing) verification
Information leakage through pretexting
Low security-incident reporting rates
Gaps in staff verification procedures
Over-trust of apparent authority
How we run your engagement
Kick-off & scoping. A short call to agree goals, in-scope assets and rules of engagement, so your social engineering assessment is safe, authorised and aimed at your real business risk.
Mapping & discovery. Before touching anything we map the full attack surface in scope, so nothing exploitable slips through.
Hands-on testing. Cyprus-based specialists exploit and chain weaknesses manually — the flaws scanners walk straight past — to show genuine impact.
Reporting. Each issue is verified, CVSS-rated and documented with a step-by-step reproduction and a practical fix your team can apply.
Free retest. Once you have remediated, we re-test at no extra cost to confirm the attack path is truly closed.
Tools & techniques
A thorough social engineering assessment hinges on targeted spear-phishing campaigns, vishing (voice) pretext calls and payload delivery & credential capture, so that is where our manual effort is concentrated.
Our red team work models real adversaries end to end, structured around the MITRE ATT&CK framework. We plan objectives, build tooling and infrastructure, and execute with strict operational security so we test not just whether we can get in, but whether your people, process and technology detect and respond. Where useful, we run the engagement as a collaborative purple team to accelerate your detection engineering.
Every action is logged and de-conflicted with your trusted agents, and nothing is left in place. The outcome is an honest measure of your detection and response maturity — with a timeline your SOC can replay against their own alerts.
When you need this engagement
You are deploying, changing or relying on systems where targeted spear-phishing campaigns would be business-critical
You have passed penetration tests but never faced an objective-driven adversary
Your board or regulator wants evidence of detection and response capability
You are a Cyprus financial institution preparing for NIS2 or DORA-style resilience testing
You want to train your defenders against realistic, current attacker tradecraft
What you receive
Campaign results & metrics
Behavioral and process findings
Awareness improvement recommendations
Anonymized, non-punitive reporting
Your deliverables
When your social engineering assessment wraps up, you receive a clear, audit-ready report plus a walkthrough call with your team. Inside you will find:
A concise executive summary that management and the board can act on
Every technical finding with a reproducible, copy-paste proof of concept
CVSS v3.1 ratings and plain-language business impact for each issue
Practical, prioritised remediation your developers can implement straight away
A free retest and updated finding status once fixes are in place
A signed attestation letter for clients, auditors, GDPR, NIS2 and ISO 27001
Standards & frameworks
NIST SP 800-115MITRE ATT&CK (initial access)industry awareness best practices
What you gain
By the end of your social engineering assessment, you will know exactly which weaknesses a real attacker could exploit, what it would cost your business, and the precise order in which to fix them — backed by evidence, not a scanner’s guesswork. Cyprus firms use our findings to close critical gaps, satisfy client and regulator security questionnaires, and demonstrate due diligence for GDPR and NIS2. With a free retest included, you also get documented proof the issues are resolved.
Working with us
Every social engineering assessment begins with a short, no-obligation scoping call to understand your goals, environment and constraints, followed by a fixed-price proposal. Most work is delivered remotely, and because we are based in Cyprus we work in your timezone with on-site visits across Limassol, Nicosia and island-wide where it helps. We keep you updated throughout and flag any critical finding immediately rather than waiting for the report. Everything is covered by a signed NDA and safe, non-disruptive testing that protects your production systems. You receive your report, a walkthrough and a complimentary retest once fixes land. Engagements are typically booked one to three weeks ahead, and urgent testing can often be arranged — just email hi@cypruspentest.com.
Why Cyprus businesses choose CyprusPentest
Your social engineering assessment is run by senior offensive-security specialists who test the way genuine attackers do — manually, creatively and focused on proving real impact. What sets us apart:
Based in Cyprus — local, in your timezone, with on-site coverage across Limassol and Nicosia.
Manual, exploit-led testing that chains vulnerabilities the way an attacker would, well beyond automated scanners.
Reproducible proof for every finding, with copy-paste steps your team can independently verify.
Compliance-ready reporting that supports GDPR, NIS2, ISO 27001 and CySEC expectations.
A free retest so you have documented evidence your fixes actually hold.
Fixed-price and responsive, with a named point of contact from scoping through to retest.
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How much does Social Engineering Assessment cost?
Every social engineering assessment in Cyprus is scoped and priced individually, so you pay only for the coverage you need — with no hidden extras. After a short, no-obligation scoping call we send a fixed-price quote, usually within one business day, with clear deliverables, a firm timeline and a complimentary retest included. The price depends on the size and complexity of your environment, so you always know the cost up front before any work begins.
