Phishing Simulation · Exeter
Phishing Simulation in Exeter
Sending controlled test phishing to staff at Exeter organisations. Done well this builds awareness and gives you a real measure; done badly it damages trust — simulations using cruel pretexts like fake redundancy notices have caused genuine harm and lasting resentment at several organisations.
Why this comes up
The problem
Nobody knows how staff would respond to a convincing phishing email, and training has been delivered without any way to tell whether it changed anything.
What you get
What we deliver
- Scenarios realistic but not cruel, avoiding pretexts that cause genuine distress
- Difficulty raised gradually rather than starting with something almost undetectable
- Immediate teaching for anyone who clicks, delivered without blame
- Reporting rate measured as the primary outcome
- Results reported by group, never used to single out individuals
- Repeat runs over time, since a single simulation is a snapshot not a programme
Want this scoped for your business in Exeter?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what phishing simulation would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Exeter
South West
Exeter is the commercial centre for a very large rural catchment, so businesses here routinely serve customers spread across Devon rather than a compact urban area, and travel time is a real cost in every quote.
Field service scheduling and routing for businesses covering a wide rural patch, plus professional services systems.
Sectors we work with in Exeter
- Higher Education
- Professional Services
- Healthcare
- Retail
- Environmental Science
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- Microsoft Defender for Office 365
- KnowBe4
- Microsoft 365
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Professional services
- Financial services
- Healthcare
- Education
- Legal
Why us
Why Exeter businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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Phishing Simulation in Exeter — common questions
- Can simulations backfire?
- Yes, and there are well-publicised cases. Simulations offering fake bonuses or announcing fake redundancies have caused real distress and lasting damage to trust in the security team. The pretext matters, and cruelty is not realism.
- Should individuals be named?
- No. Reporting by department shows where support is needed without turning it into a disciplinary exercise. Naming individuals reliably produces people who hide mistakes rather than report them, which is the opposite of the outcome you want.
- What does a good result look like?
- A high reporting rate. Click rate matters and never reaches zero — some proportion of any workforce will click a sufficiently good phish. What determines whether that becomes an incident is how quickly someone tells you, which is the number to watch.
- How often should we run them?
- Quarterly suits most organisations. Running them more often becomes background noise that people learn to ignore, while annually is far too infrequent to build any habit. Consistency matters more than volume here, and every run should teach something rather than merely testing whether staff fail.
- Do you work with businesses across Devon?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout South West, including Exeter and the surrounding Devon area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Exeter businesses do you usually work with?
- Field service scheduling and routing for businesses covering a wide rural patch, plus professional services systems. Beyond that we work across Higher Education, Professional Services, Healthcare, Retail and Environmental Science.
- Do you cover the areas around Exeter?
- Yes — we work throughout South West, including Plymouth, Truro, Bristol. Exeter is an urban area of roughly 130,000+, and we take on work across the wider Devon region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about Phishing Simulation in Exeter
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise