Phishing Simulation · Reading
Phishing Simulation in Reading
Sending controlled test phishing to staff at Reading 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 Reading?
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 Reading
South East
Reading anchors the Thames Valley technology corridor, and local firms are often part of large enterprise supply chains where security review and integration standards are set by someone else.
Work here usually has to satisfy someone else's security and integration standards, because clients sit inside larger enterprise supply chains.
Sectors we work with in Reading
- Technology
- Telecommunications
- Financial Services
- Professional Services
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 Reading 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 Reading — 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 Berkshire?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout South East, including Reading and the surrounding Berkshire area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Reading businesses do you usually work with?
- Work here usually has to satisfy someone else's security and integration standards, because clients sit inside larger enterprise supply chains. Beyond that we work across Technology, Telecommunications, Financial Services and Professional Services.
- Do you cover the areas around Reading?
- Yes — we work throughout South East, including Oxford, London, Milton Keynes, Southampton. Reading is an urban area of roughly 340,000+, and we take on work across the wider Berkshire region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about Phishing Simulation in Reading
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