Smishing assessment service
Our smishing services simulate SMS-based phishing attacks to test how your employees and customers respond to deceptive text messages. These controlled, data-driven campaigns reveal awareness gaps, measure response behavior, and deliver actionable insights that strengthen your mobile security posture and compliance readiness.
What you'll get from our smishing service:
- Executive Summary: Key business and awareness findings
- Campaign Metrics: Number of messages sent, click rates, credential submissions, and reporting behavior
- Behavioral Analysis: Trends in employee responses, escalation, and reporting patterns
- Remediation Roadmap: 30/60/90-day improvement plan
- Compliance Mapping Appendix: Framework alignment (ISO, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIST, CMMC)
- Optional Retest Report: Validation of progress and audit-ready closure evidence
Who benefits from smishing testing service
Smishing or SMS phishing, targets the most trusted communication channel in business: text messaging. Attackers exploit urgency, familiarity, and human trust to trick employees into sharing credentials, authorizing payments, or exposing sensitive data. As mobile messaging becomes central to daily operations, understanding and reducing this risk is essential.
Smishing testing helps organizations measure, strengthen, and prove the effectiveness of their human defenses across departments:
- Executive Leadership: Demonstrate governance and awareness of human-layer risk across the organization.
- Information Security Teams: Gain visibility into employee response patterns and validate training effectiveness.
- IT & Helpdesk: Test and improve verification procedures for mobile support or access requests.
- Finance & Accounting: Prevent fraudulent payment approvals and SMS-based invoice scams.
- Human Resources: Protect employee data from impersonation or recruitment-related deception.
- Marketing & Customer Service: Safeguard brand reputation and prevent customer-facing smishing attempts.
- Remote & Field Teams: Build resilience where mobile messaging is the primary communication channel.
Industries we commonly support
Smishing testing is essential for businesses that rely on mobile messaging to communicate with employees, customers, or partners.
- Financial services & fintech: Protect against fraudulent SMS-based payment or verification scams.
- Healthcare & MedTech: Secure patient notifications and reduce PHI disclosure risk.
- Technology & SaaS providers: Safeguard mobile authentication and support channels.
- Retail & e-commerce: Prevent fake delivery and payment confirmation attacks.
- Manufacturing & critical infrastructure: Protect supplier and vendor communications.
- Government & public sector: Defend public trust and citizen data from impersonation attempts.
What's included in your smishing testing
Our smishing assessments are designed to deliver accurate, actionable insights, not just raw metrics. Each engagement follows a structured process that ensures safety, clarity, and value at every stage.
Craft realistic SMS phishing scenarios
Each call scenario is designed around your operations, such as such as vendor verification, password resets, or financial approvals
Deliver controlled messages safely
Campaigns are executed through secure, authorized channels under strict rules of engagement to avoid disruption or user confusion
Track user interactions and responses
We monitor how recipients engage with simulated messages, whether they click links, submit credentials, or report suspicious activity.
Identify disclosure and verification failures
Our analysis highlights where employees fail to verify legitimacy or escalate suspected threats, revealing policy or training gaps
Prioritize remediation by severity and frequency
Findings are ranked by risk level and recurrence, helping you focus efforts on the most impactful improvements first
Provide executive and technical reports
We deliver clear summaries for management alongside detailed, actionable findings for security and awareness teams
Get a Tailored Quote in Minutes
Our self-service quote tool makes it easy to scope your smishing engagement in minutes. Simply provide your target audience size, regions, and objectives. and our team will prepare a customized proposal with transparent pricing and timelines. No lengthy calls, no generic estimates.
- Call 1-877-805-7475
Where Smishing and Vishing Fit in Your Security Strategy
While these services are related, each targets a distinct aspect of your organization’s security posture:
- Smishing tests human behavior through deceptive SMS messages and mobile interactions.
- Vishing assesses response to voice-based manipulation and phone impersonation.
- Penetration Testing validates technical resilience across systems, applications, and infrastructure.
Together, they deliver a comprehensive view of both human and technical risk, enabling proactive defense across every attack surface.
Why Vumetric is a trusted cybersecurity provider
Vumetric is an ISO9001-certified provider entirely dedicated to cybersecurity testing with more than 15 years of experience in the industry.
With extensive hands-on experience in the field, our team of experts delivers cybersecurity projects across a wide range of digital ecosystems, providing actionable insights and acting as trusted advisors to our clients.
- Top industry certifications (CISSP, OSCP, CRTO, GWAPT, etc.)
- Fast response time & quick turnover with our in-house team of experts
- Proven testing methodologies (OWASP, MITRE, OSSTMM, etc.)
