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Attack patterns
Clear explanations of social engineering tactics, types, and behavioural patterns without turning the resource into offensive instruction.
Coming soon
Social engineering defence, mapped for real organisations.
Pretext8 is currently under active development as a social engineering defence framework and reference resource for understanding, analysing, and reducing human-layer risk across people, process, identity, governance, fraud, culture, and response.
Project focus
This site is being built to help organisations treat social engineering as more than a once-a-year phishing topic. The focus is practical, defensive, and designed for security teams, consultants, risk teams, resilience teams, and business leaders.
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Manipulation levers
Structured manipulation levers for examining how authority, urgency, trust, pressure, reciprocity, and context are used to influence behaviour.
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Controls and assurance
Practical control areas and maturity concepts that connect human-layer risk to process, culture, assurance, monitoring, and response.
Current status
Pretext8 is under development. The public framework is currently being structured, reviewed, and prepared for launch. Until release, this page is acting as a holding page for readers who arrive early.