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Phishing Simulation ServicesFind Your Actual Click Rate.
Train the Employees Who Need It Most.

Security awareness training tells employees what phishing looks like. Simulated phishing tests whether they can actually recognize it when it arrives in their inbox. The difference matters because most organizations have employees who attended the training and still click — sometimes the same employees, repeatedly. The only way to know who those employees are is to send realistic simulated phishing emails and measure the result. First-time simulated phishing campaigns at organizations without prior simulation consistently show click rates of 20–35% across the employee base — meaning one in four to one in three employees would have provided credentials or downloaded malware if the email had been real. Gradius delivers phishing simulation services for NJ, NY & CT businesses — realistic simulated phishing campaigns, click rate tracking by employee and department, immediate targeted training for employees who click, and compliance documentation that satisfies HIPAA, PCI, and other framework requirements.

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Uptime SLA Target
<15m
Response Time
24/7
NOC & SOC
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Phishing Simulation Services — NJ, NY & CT Simulated Phishing Campaigns — Realistic & Customized Click Rate Tracking — By Employee & Department Immediate Training for Employees Who Click Industry-Specific Phishing Scenarios Executive & High-Risk User BEC Simulations Compliance Evidence — HIPAA, PCI, SEC & More First-Run Click Rates: 20–35% — Know Your Number Flat-Rate Phishing Simulation — NJ, NY & CT Phishing Simulation Services — NJ, NY & CT Simulated Phishing Campaigns — Realistic & Customized Click Rate Tracking — By Employee & Department Immediate Training for Employees Who Click Industry-Specific Phishing Scenarios Executive & High-Risk User BEC Simulations Compliance Evidence — HIPAA, PCI, SEC & More First-Run Click Rates: 20–35% — Know Your Number Flat-Rate Phishing Simulation — NJ, NY & CT
99.9%
Uptime SLA
Target
<15m
Avg Help Desk
Response Time
24/7
NOC & SOC
Coverage
20-35%
Avg First-Run
Click Rate
What Phishing Simulation Delivers

Six Components of an Effective Phishing
Simulation Program — Beyond Just Sending Fake Emails

Effective phishing simulation is not a single campaign — it's a continuous program that measures employee susceptibility, delivers training where it's needed, escalates difficulty as employees improve, and produces the compliance evidence that regulators and auditors require.

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Simulated Phishing Campaigns — Realistic Enough to Reveal Real Risk
A phishing simulation that employees recognize as fake doesn't reveal actual risk — it just tells you that employees can spot obvious test emails. Realistic simulations use the same techniques attackers use: display name spoofing that shows a trusted name in the "From" field, urgency language that creates pressure to act without thinking, pretexts relevant to the organization's industry and business context, and links that look legitimate but lead to a simulated credential harvesting page. Gradius configures simulated phishing campaigns that reflect the actual attack patterns targeting NJ, NY & CT businesses in each industry — not generic templates that experienced employees easily dismiss.
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Click Rate Tracking — Know Who Clicked, Who Reported, Who's at Risk
Phishing simulation reporting goes beyond the overall click rate — it identifies which specific employees clicked, which employees correctly reported the phishing email as suspicious, which employees opened the email but didn't click, and which employees didn't open it at all. Department-level reporting identifies organizational units with elevated susceptibility — a finance team with a 40% click rate is a targeted training priority. Manager-level reporting enables direct follow-up. Trend reporting across multiple campaigns shows whether click rates are improving as the training program matures. Gradius provides detailed click rate reports after every campaign — giving management the specific, actionable data that justifies the security awareness investment and directs training to where it's needed.
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Immediate Training for Employees Who Click — The Teachable Moment
The most effective security awareness training occurs immediately after an employee clicks a simulated phishing link — at the exact moment the behavior is fresh and the context is clear. When an employee clicks a Gradius-delivered simulated phishing link, they're immediately presented with a brief, targeted training module that explains what made the email suspicious, what the real-world consequence of clicking a genuine phishing link would have been, and what to look for next time. This just-in-time training at the moment of failure is significantly more effective at changing behavior than annual training modules delivered months before or after the phishing attempt.
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Industry-Specific Simulation — Attacks That Match Your Business Context
Generic phishing simulations send the same email pretexts to every organization — fake package delivery notifications, generic IT password reset requests, and impersonated HR announcements. These scenarios don't reflect the actual attacks targeting the specific organization. Effective phishing simulation uses pretexts relevant to the industry and business context: for a law firm, a fake client document request or court notice; for a healthcare organization, a fake EHR password reset or patient scheduling notification; for a financial services firm, a fake wire confirmation or compliance alert; for a construction company, a fake vendor invoice or project update. Gradius customizes phishing simulation templates to the organization's industry, size, and business context — making simulations realistic for the specific attacks the organization actually faces.
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Executive & High-Risk User Simulation — BEC-Style Attacks
Executives are both the most targeted and the most consequential click-risk in any organization — a CEO whose credentials are phished gives an attacker access to the most sensitive communications and the authority to approve fraudulent wire transfers. BEC-style simulations specifically target executives, finance staff, and other high-risk roles with the types of attacks most likely to target them: wire transfer requests appearing to come from executives or trusted vendors, fake board communications, urgency-framed requests from apparent authority figures. Gradius delivers executive-tier phishing simulations that test the specific attack patterns targeting high-value targets — including CEO impersonation, vendor invoice fraud, and credential harvesting pretexts tailored to executive workflows.
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Compliance Evidence — HIPAA, PCI, SEC & Framework Documentation
Multiple compliance frameworks require documented phishing simulation and security awareness training. HIPAA's Security Rule requires workforce security awareness training — and OCR audits increasingly scrutinize whether training is ongoing and documented rather than a one-time annual exercise. PCI DSS requires security awareness training that includes phishing defense. SEC cybersecurity program requirements include evidence of security awareness training. NIST CSF includes security awareness training in the Protect function. Gradius generates compliance documentation from every phishing simulation campaign: campaign completion records, click rate reports by employee, training completion documentation for employees who received remedial training, and aggregate reporting suitable for board-level security reporting and regulatory audit response.
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Phishing Simulation + Security Awareness Training —
Measurement and Education Together

Phishing simulation measures who clicks. Security awareness training educates why not to. Both together — continuous simulation that identifies at-risk employees, immediate training when they click, and ongoing education that reduces the click rate over time — is the complete human security layer.

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Phishing Simulation
Phishing Simulation Services

Complete phishing simulation for NJ, NY & CT businesses — realistic simulated phishing campaigns using actual attack patterns (not generic templates), click rate tracking by employee and department, immediate targeted training for employees who click, industry-specific simulation templates, executive and high-risk user BEC simulations, and compliance documentation for HIPAA, PCI, SEC, and NIST frameworks. Continuous program, not a single campaign. Flat-rate.

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What Percentage of Your Employees Would Click
a Phishing Email Today?

Most organizations don't know — and the answer is usually higher than expected. First-run simulated phishing campaigns consistently show 20–35% click rates before training intervention. Book a free phishing simulation assessment and find out what your actual number is, not what you estimate it to be.

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Why NJ, NY & CT Businesses Choose Gradius for Phishing Simulation

Realistic Campaigns, Actionable Reporting,
and Training That Changes Behavior

Phishing simulation is only as effective as its realism, its reporting, and its follow-through training. Generic templates that employees easily recognize don't reveal real risk. Reporting without individual employee identification doesn't direct training where it's needed. Training without the teachable moment of an immediate click response doesn't change behavior. Gradius delivers all three: realistic campaigns, individual-level reporting, and immediate just-in-time training.

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Realistic Phishing Templates — The Attacks Targeting Your Industry
Gradius maintains phishing simulation templates calibrated to the specific attack patterns targeting NJ, NY & CT industries — the invoice fraud attempts targeting construction and real estate firms, the EHR credential phishing targeting healthcare organizations, the wire transfer urgency attacks targeting financial services and legal firms, and the vendor impersonation attacks across all industries. Templates are updated as attack patterns evolve — reflecting what attackers are actually sending rather than what they sent two years ago. Simulation realism is what makes the measurement valid: an easy-to-spot test email tells you nothing about real-world susceptibility.
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Individual-Level Reporting — Training Directed Where It's Needed
Aggregate click rates are useful for program benchmarking — knowing that 28% of employees clicked the last campaign sets a baseline. But training direction requires individual-level data: which employees clicked, how many times across multiple campaigns, and what departments show concentrated susceptibility. Repeat clickers — employees who click on multiple simulated phishing campaigns despite prior training — are the highest-risk individuals in the organization and the priority for escalated training intervention. Gradius reporting identifies repeat clickers, department-level patterns, and trend lines across campaign history — giving management the specific data to direct training investment where it has the most security impact.
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Click Rate Improvement Over Time — The Measurable Security Outcome
The objective of phishing simulation is a declining click rate over time — from the first-run baseline (typically 20–35%) toward the industry benchmark for well-trained organizations (typically under 5% sustained over multiple campaigns). This improvement is measurable and attributable: it can be tracked campaign by campaign, reported to management and boards as a concrete security metric, and used to demonstrate that the security awareness investment is producing measurable risk reduction. Gradius tracks click rate trends across the simulation program and reports progress against industry benchmarks — giving organizations a concrete measure of human security improvement that other security controls can't provide.
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Compliance Documentation — Evidence Ready When Auditors Ask
Regulators and auditors who require phishing simulation and security awareness training documentation want evidence of a continuous program — not a single annual campaign certificate. Gradius generates documentation after every simulation campaign: campaign dates and scope, template descriptions, participation rates, click rates, remedial training completion, and aggregate security awareness metrics. This documentation is organized in a format that satisfies HIPAA audit requests, PCI DSS assessor requirements, SEC examination inquiries, and the security awareness documentation that cyber insurance carriers increasingly require at renewal. The documentation is current and complete when it's needed — not assembled under deadline pressure.
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99.9%
Uptime SLA
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<15m
Avg Response
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24/7
NOC, SOC &
Help Desk
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Phishing Click Rates Measured — Training Targeted — Compliance Documented — NJ, NY & CT
Getting Started

From First Call to Full Coverage
in Days — Not Months

No disruption. No lengthy onboarding. A fast, smooth transition to a partner that has your back from day one.

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Free Assessment
A Gradius security specialist assesses your current phishing simulation and security awareness program — whether simulations are being run, what click rates look like, whether compliance documentation is current, and what the first simulated campaign would reveal about the organization's actual susceptibility. At no cost, no obligation.
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Custom Proposal
A continuous phishing simulation program — realistic campaigns delivered on a defined schedule (typically monthly or quarterly), click rate reporting by employee and department, immediate just-in-time training for employees who click, escalating simulation difficulty as click rates improve, and compliance documentation generated after every campaign. Flat-rate per user.
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Smooth Onboarding
Our engineers deploy, configure, and meet your team — typically live within 1–2 weeks without disrupting daily operations.
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Ongoing Partnership
Click rate trends tracked across every campaign; compliance documentation current and organized; simulation templates updated to reflect current attack patterns; executive and high-risk user campaigns run on a separate schedule; and quarterly phishing simulation reviews that report on progress against baseline and industry benchmarks.
FAQ

Common Questions About
Phishing Simulation Services

Gradius phishing simulation services include: realistic simulated phishing campaigns — industry-specific templates reflecting actual attack patterns, delivered on a monthly or quarterly schedule; click rate tracking — individual employee-level reporting identifying who clicked, who reported, and who opened without clicking; immediate just-in-time training — employees who click receive targeted training at the moment of the simulated click, explaining what made the email suspicious and what they should do next time; executive and high-risk user simulations — BEC-style campaigns targeting executives, finance staff, and other high-value targets; escalating difficulty — as click rates improve, simulation difficulty increases to maintain training effectiveness; and compliance documentation — campaign records, click rate reports, training completion documentation, and aggregate metrics for HIPAA, PCI, SEC, and other framework requirements. Continuous program, flat-rate per user.
First-run phishing simulation click rates for organizations without prior simulation consistently fall in the 20–35% range — meaning one in four to one in three employees clicks a simulated phishing link on the first campaign. This is not an indictment of employees — it reflects the effectiveness of modern phishing techniques and the reality that most employees have not been tested in a realistic context. Industry variations exist: organizations in financial services and healthcare, where employees deal with more targeted attacks, sometimes show lower baseline rates due to prior exposure; organizations in industries with less historical phishing attention sometimes show higher rates. After six to twelve months of continuous simulation with just-in-time training, well-run programs typically reduce click rates to under 5%. The first-run baseline is the starting point, not the destination.
This is the most common management concern about phishing simulation — and it's worth addressing directly. Research on security awareness training consistently shows that immediate, non-punitive just-in-time training after a simulated click is the most effective behavior change mechanism. The key is framing: employees should understand that phishing simulation is a training tool, not a surveillance or discipline mechanism. The message to employees is that simulated phishing is how the organization keeps its defenses strong, that clicking a simulated phishing link is how you learn to recognize the real ones, and that reporting a suspicious email is always the right action. Gradius recommends communicating the phishing simulation program to employees in advance — explaining the program's purpose and framing it as part of the organization's security culture rather than a test. This framing actually improves training effectiveness and increases report rates.
Several major compliance frameworks either require or strongly recommend phishing simulation as part of a security awareness program. HIPAA's Security Rule requires covered entities to implement a security awareness and training program — and OCR audit protocols specifically look for evidence that training addresses phishing, that training is ongoing rather than annual-only, and that training effectiveness is evaluated. PCI DSS Requirement 12.6 requires security awareness training that includes education on phishing attacks, and the spirit of the requirement includes testing as well as education. NIST CSF includes security awareness training in the Protect function (PR.AT). SEC cybersecurity rules for registered advisors include security awareness training as an expected component of a documented cybersecurity program. Cyber insurance carriers increasingly require documented phishing simulation as a condition of coverage or as a factor in premium calculation. Gradius generates the documentation that satisfies these requirements after every campaign.
No long-term lock-ins. We offer month-to-month and annual agreements. Organizations stay with Gradius phishing simulation because click rates decline measurably over time, compliance documentation is current when auditors ask, and the simulation program is continuously updated to reflect current attack patterns rather than stagnating. We earn the renewal every month through measurable security improvement.
We serve 12+ industries in NJ, NY & CT including healthcare, legal, financial services, construction, manufacturing, real estate, insurance, architecture, professional services, restaurants, nonprofits, and general business — each with specialized compliance and operational expertise built in.
Service Area

Phishing Simulation Services Across
NJ, NY & CT

Gradius IT Solutions serves businesses throughout the Tri-State area. Headquartered in Hackensack, NJ with coverage across Bergen, Hudson, Passaic, Essex, Union, Morris, Middlesex, Somerset, Sussex, Westchester, Rockland, and Fairfield Counties.

Free Phishing Simulation Assessment — NJ, NY & CT

Know Your Click Rate. Train Who Needs It.
Phishing Simulation That Reduces Real Risk.

Gradius delivers phishing simulation services for NJ, NY & CT businesses — realistic campaigns, individual click rate reporting, immediate just-in-time training, executive BEC simulations, and compliance documentation. Find your actual click rate. Reduce it over time. Book your free phishing simulation assessment today.

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Results in 30–90 days
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