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Just launched our web-based spear phishing attack simulator app

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Re: Just launched our web-based spear phishing attack simulator app

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It looks like something I would want to use -- but I can't tell whether it's priced in a range I can afford. I mentally equate the lack of a price list with a hard-sell, high-price sales approach.

We're targeting the enterprise market so most of our customers have a security budget that this would fit nicely in. Our model is subscription based, allowing customers to run as many tests as they want. If you look at how much a breach costs organizations it isn't hard for us to justify our price. I can tell you that everyone here at ThreatSim has been in IT for well over 10 years and we're no fans of high pressure sales. Most of our business is based on referral and repeat customers. If you want to know more please fill out the contact form on our site.

Re: Just launched our web-based spear phishing attack simulator app

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post #11

It looks like something I would want to use -- but I can't tell whether it's priced in a range I can afford. I mentally equate the lack of a price list with a hard-sell, high-price sales approach.

Same. Makes me feel like the services offered are dubious in value.

Re: Just launched our web-based spear phishing attack simulator app

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I wonder how many companies are currently running tests like this in the enterprise. Anyone have an idea of what people currently use?

Core Impact includes a module for doing phishing with client-side exploits. Probably more expensive than this, though. Metasploit will let you do similar things, but I don't know if it's packaged up nicely like Core Impact and the current post.

Re: Just launched our web-based spear phishing attack simulator app

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post #11

It looks like something I would want to use -- but I can't tell whether it's priced in a range I can afford. I mentally equate the lack of a price list with a hard-sell, high-price sales approach.

We're targeting the enterprise market so most of our customers have a security budget that this would fit nicely in. Our model is subscription based, allowing customers to run as many tests as they want. If you look at how much a breach costs organizations it isn't hard for us to justify our price. I can tell you that everyone here at ThreatSim has been in IT for well over 10 years and we're no fans of high pressure…

That answer didn't have a single dollar figure in it.

Perhaps you could tell us an average price (or median, which would be lower), or even just an example of a price someone paid.

If I can't tell what this is going to cost me to within a factor of 10, then I probably can't afford it. Based on what I see here, the entry level cost might be as cheap as $100, or as expensive as $50,000.

Re: Just launched our web-based spear phishing attack simulator app

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just want to step in and say that its a nice little logo you got there, what is the font used and where did you get it designed :)

Thanks! The logo was designed by the talented folks at http://peeble.in/ Not sure what the font is, however you can drop it into "What The Font" http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ and see what they think it is.

Re: Just launched our web-based spear phishing attack simulator app

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1. I have no idea what this website does, but it sounds like it is web based security checking. 2. The web site is down. Potential Delicious Irony: Somebody took down ThreatSim with ThreatSim.

Irony is that we're under a lot of traffic right now and moving to EC2 as I type this. Site is back up btw :)

That sounds like an excellent problem to have.
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