Patent Document ID: 9674213
Application ID: 15337054
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for implementing a phishing assessment of a target computing network, the method comprising: at a phishing assessment platform: generating parameters for the phishing assessment, wherein generating parameters includes: (i) identifying a legitimate target domain name for the phishing assessment; (ii) identifying a pseudo domain name based on the identified legitimate target domain name, wherein the pseudo domain name is a fictitious or an attack domain name used in implementing the phishing assessment; (iii) generating a pseudo web page based on one or more features and attributes associated with an entity associated with the legitimate target domain name, wherein the pseudo domain name points to the pseudo web page, wherein the pseudo web page is a fictitious or illegitimate web page; (iv) configuring phishing vectors, wherein the phishing vectors include one or more communication platforms and/or one or more communication methods; (v) configuring the phishing assessment as a multi-vector phishing assessment in which the phishing assessment is implemented in such a manner that includes attacking a target user of the target computer network via at least a first communication channel and a second communication channel, wherein the first and second communication channels are different; and implementing the phishing assessment, using both the pseudo domain name and pseudo web page, on a target computer network or against one or more target users associated with the target computer network.