Retire the Phishing Test: Doppel Simulation is Here

Security awareness training is broken.

For years, security teams have relied on legacy phishing tests consisting of static emails sent every quarter, designed to trick employees into clicking suspicious links. When someone fails, they get a slap on the wrist and some generic training. When everyone “passes,” leadership breathes a temporary sigh of relief.

But here’s the reality:

Your security team just passed the quarterly phishing test. Two weeks later, your CFO receives an AI-generated SMS message spoofed from a known contact. It sounds urgent. It’s personalized. And before anyone knows what’s happening, funds are wired out to a fraudulent account.

This is the new face of social engineering, and static phishing tests aren’t equipped to stop it.

The Problem with Legacy Phishing Tests

Phishing tests were never meant to keep up with today’s adversaries. What started as a well-intentioned awareness tactic has become a compliance checkbox, offering little in the way of real resilience.

Email-only focus: Most phishing tests only simulate email attacks. Meanwhile, real attackers exploit SMS, voice, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, and other messaging platforms in coordinated, multi-channel campaigns.

Static templates: These tests use canned lures that everyone has seen a dozen times. In contrast, attackers constantly evolve their techniques, using personalized content, spoofed identities, and AI-generated media to craft dynamic, high-conviction lures.

Click rates are misleading: Measuring how many people clicked doesn’t reveal who reported the message, who escalated it, how quickly teams responded or the negative business impact associated with an attack. Awareness does not equal readiness.

Missing the bigger picture: Organizations need to understand whether they can detect, report, and respond to an attack, not just avoid clicking a suspicious link.

It’s time to move beyond awareness and toward measurable resilience.

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Introducing Doppel Simulation

Doppel Simulation is a multi-channel, AI-powered social engineering simulation engine that authentically mirrors how modern adversaries operate. It replaces outdated phishing tests with dynamic campaigns that emulate today’s real-world threats.

Built into the Doppel Vision platform, Simulation allows security leaders to assess organizational readiness, test incident response processes, and target high-risk groups with tailored simulations.

Where phishing tests end at an inbox, Doppel Simulation goes further, testing every step of the adversary kill chain.

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How Doppel Simulation Works

Doppel Simulation is designed to simulate what real social engineering looks like today — and what it will look like tomorrow.

• Multi-channel campaigns: Will allow customers to launch coordinated simulations across email, SMS,, Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram (with voice and more channels coming soon) and detect vulnerabilities in the channels attackers actually use.
• Agentic AI campaign design: Our AI agents generate hyper-realistic lures based on live threat intelligence and attacker TTPs. Each simulation is unique, dynamic, and aligned to real-world adversary behaviors.
• Role-based targeting: Not all employees face the same threats. Simulation enables tailored campaigns for executives, finance, IT, and other high-risk roles to reflect business-specific attack paths.
• Rich analytics and insights: Go beyond clicks. See which departments detected and reported threats, who escalated appropriately, and where response processes failed. Behavioral heatmaps and risk scoring replace vanity metrics with actionable insights.
• Personalized coaching: When someone falls for a simulated attack, Doppel triggers targeted, AI-driven coaching to reinforce the right behavior without disrupting workflows.
• Integrated with Doppel Vision: With Simulation, Doppel customers can take a real customer threat detected via Doppel’s Brand and Executive Protection products, and with a click of a button, immediately turn it into a simulation. The ability to create simulation campaigns based on active threats is a first of its kind feature, enabling Doppel customers to stay ahead of the most advanced social engineering attacks.

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Why This Matters

Doppel Simulation isn’t just training. It’s a true test of your organization’s social engineering defense capability.

• Validate resilience: Measure your organization’s ability to detect, report, and respond — not just avoid a link.
• Meet audit requirements: Simulations support compliance for SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and other frameworks requiring demonstrable social engineering defense.
• Target the gaps: Customers can identify high-risk departments and roles and allocate budget and training where it makes a measurable impact.
• Stay ahead of attackers: Doppel Simulation evolves alongside emerging threats, continuously adapting to reflect the latest adversary tools and tactics.

This isn’t just about awareness. It’s about preparing organizations for cutting-edge attacks that can do serious damage.

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How This Changes Security Training

Legacy phishing tests ask: “Did anyone click?”

Doppel Simulation asks: “Can we stop this before it costs us?”

Instead of recycled email templates, simulation features get multi-step, AI-generated simulations across real-world communication channels. Instead of vague click rates, customers get concrete insights into organizational readiness, from first contact to incident response.

This is the new standard in Social Engineering Defense: customizable, multi-channel, and intelligence-driven.

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Doppel’s Key Differentiators

What makes Doppel Simulation unique?

• Multi-channel emulation: We simulate attacker workflows across email, SMS, and messaging apps. Real attacks are multi-channel—so are we.
• Full kill chain simulation: We go beyond single touchpoints to replicate end-to-end adversary flows, including follow-ups and multi-step pretexting.
• Speed to deploy: Simulations can be designed and launched in minutes, at the pace of modern threat actors.
• Integrated threat intelligence: Doppel Simulation is powered by Doppel Vision’s Threat Graph, pulling from live attacker infrastructure and techniques to ensure every campaign is grounded in real-world data.
• Customer-proven: Organizations already using Doppel Simulation have identified previously unseen risks and made measurable improvements to their social engineering defense posture.

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Retire the Test. Launch the Simulation.

Security teams need more than a checkbox to prepare for today’s threats. They need visibility, adaptability, and the ability to test real-world resilience.

It’s time to move on from legacy phishing tests.

Doppel Simulation replaces outdated training with intelligent, multi-channel adversary emulation, so you can prove your organization is ready, not just aware.

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Book a Simulation Demo today and see how Doppel can transform your security culture from reactive to resilient.

Want to learn more? Join our upcoming Doppel Simulation Webinar on September 16th, led by Doppel Co-Founder and CTO, Rahul Madduluri.

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