Attack type
Executive impersonation, intercepted at the device.
Attackers spoof your CEO, CFO, or VP in SMS and chat — requesting urgent wires, gift cards, or favors from employees who don’t feel they can say no. These messages never touch your SEG. SmishAlert is where they get caught.
What we see in the wild
The patterns landing on your employees’ phones.
“Quick favor — I’m in a meeting, can you grab $500 in gift cards?”
Spoofed caller ID matching the executive’s real cell
Out-of-hours timing (after 6pm local) to bypass IT verification
Targeting of new hires in the executive’s reporting line within their first 90 days
Why traditional tools miss it
Your email security only sees email. Your phone carrier’s spam filter doesn’t know your CEO’s name. Your awareness training is the last line of defense and it relies on every employee remembering the right rule in the wrong moment.
How SmishAlert surfaces it
On-device classification flags impersonation patterns. The reporting portal correlates lookalike messages across your workforce. Your SOC sees campaigns, not isolated reports.
What this looks like in a 30-day window.
Over 30 days at an 87-employee sample deployment.
FAQ
Questions security leaders ask
What is the best way to detect executive impersonation in SMS?
Email gateways and carrier spam filters don’t see SMS or iMessage, so executive impersonation has to be caught on the device where it lands. SmishAlert classifies impersonation patterns on-device and correlates lookalike messages across your workforce so your SOC sees a campaign instead of scattered reports.
Why don’t email security tools catch CEO text-message scams?
Secure email gateways inspect email traffic only. A spoofed text to an employee’s phone never passes through them, which is exactly why attackers have moved high-value impersonation to messaging. SmishAlert adds the missing visibility for the messaging channel.
Can SmishAlert tell real executive texts from impersonation?
SmishAlert flags the structural patterns of impersonation — urgency, off-hours timing, payment requests, and spoofed sender details — and lets employees report in one tap. Correlation across reports confirms when the same lure is hitting multiple people.
How do I measure my workforce’s exposure to executive impersonation?
Book a scoping call for the SmishAlert 30-day exposure pilot. Deploy to 25–100 employees, capture every reported impersonation attempt, and receive an executive report quantifying attempts, spoofed identities, and employees targeted.
Measure it
See it running against your workforce.
A 30-minute scoping call. A 30-day pilot. A report your CEO will read.
Or take the 2-minute self-evaluation — no email required.