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Behavioral email assessment

Email social engineering simulation without collecting real secrets

Run tenant-controlled email exercises with safe content, measurable participant journeys, authenticated delivery callbacks, debriefs and SIEM-ready events.

Beyond click rate

Measure the participant journey, not a single event

A click alone does not explain whether the employee recognized the scenario, continued toward an unsafe decision, reported it, replied, encountered a security scanner or learned from the debrief. Deceptiment records a broader event timeline while separating known automated email-security activity from human behavior.

Campaign owners can work with reusable templates and audiences, safe HTML composition, personalization variables, plain-text fallback, A/B variants and review-required recurring drafts. Tenant-owned sender configurations remain isolated and use encrypted credentials.

Public landing and debrief experiences are intentionally credential-free. They can measure intent and continuation without receiving passwords, codes, payment data or other sensitive information.

Campaign controls

Realistic assessment with operational safeguards

01

Tenant sending profiles

Keep sender identities and encrypted gateway credentials isolated to the customer workspace.

02

Readiness checks

Review sender configuration and SPF, DKIM and DMARC readiness before production delivery.

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Safe content design

Use sanitized HTML, live preview, personalization variables, plain-text fallback and inert artifacts.

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Required approval

Require customer authorization, safety approval, a successful test and a safe landing experience before launch.

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Authenticated callbacks

Correlate provider events to the exact participant through opaque tokens and authenticated callbacks.

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Debrief and evidence

Connect each participant journey to debriefing, campaign results, operational events and reporting.

Multi-channel role

Email can establish the pretext; voice can apply pressure

Real social-engineering attempts often move between channels. An email may introduce an urgent issue, provide a meeting invitation or establish a request that later continues through WhatsApp or Microsoft Teams voice. Deceptiment’s platform evidence model allows security teams to view email alongside its governed voice-assessment channels.

That does not mean every campaign must be multi-channel. A focused email assessment remains useful when the control objective is reporting, safe-link handling, supplier verification or response to an apparent executive request.

Frequently asked questions

Email simulation, clearly explained

Does the platform store passwords entered by participants?

No. Credential and sensitive-data collection are prohibited; the safe experience measures intent without accepting those values.

How are automated scanners handled?

Known email-security scanner activity is excluded from participant analytics while remaining available for troubleshooting.

Can campaigns compare variants?

The documented workflow includes A/B content variants, participant journey metrics and variant comparisons.

Can email events reach a SIEM?

Email events enter the central operational stream, which supports export, HTTP forwarding and a configured pull API.

Measure email behavior without creating unnecessary risk

Review campaign design, safe interaction controls, reporting and integration.

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