HacWare's phishing education software is one of the most simplest things you will ever use. In fact, once installed it takes less than 5 minutes to send your first phishing exercise.
Getting Started
Go to the HacWare website.
In the navigation section at the top of the screen, I clicked on free trial.
Select the email type and email that you wish to use. I used gmail.
Once this was done, I received a welcome email with dashboard access
Sending Phishing Exercises
To send a phishing exercise we must create a new campaign. This can be done by navigating to the simulations section and clicking campaign.
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On the lower right click on "Add New Campaign"
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Type in the name of the member you'd like to test.
-The employees you wish to send the exercises to will already be there, since it is connected with your desired email contacts. -
Select a time.
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Finally, send a test. There are 4 different types. You can choose from a link, attachment, reply, or random (dynamic) test.
Note: if you set a phish to send on a time that has already taken place, it will send immediately.
For this scenario, I sent a dynamically generated test. It's an automatically generated phishing exercise based on user behavior.
Here is a look at the exercise that was sent:
The simulation dynamically created a message to send to the recipient.
All this in under 5 minutes.
Pierce Taylor, Software Engineer Intern at HacWare. HacWare measures risky cybersecurity behaviors and automates security education to help MSPs combat phishing attacks.
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