# NexGuards
> AI-powered phishing simulation and security awareness platform for modern security teams

## What is NexGuards?
NexGuards is an AI-powered social engineering and phishing simulation platform. It helps organizations reduce human cyber risk through AI-personalized attack simulations across email, voice, and SMS; adaptive security awareness training with AI-generated microlessons and courses; and real-time human risk management with dynamic per-employee risk scoring. The platform simulates the full social engineering attack surface that real adversaries use.

## Products

### 1. Attack Simulations
NexGuards runs OSINT-powered attack simulations across three channels:

Email Phishing: The AI builds a profile on each employee from public sources (LinkedIn, company news, job postings, org charts) and generates a personalized spear-phishing email that mirrors what a real attacker would send that specific person.

Voice Attack Simulation (Vishing): AI voice cloning in English and Arabic dialects enables realistic executive impersonation calls. The platform can simulate phone-based social engineering at scale.

SMS Phishing (Smishing): Targeted SMS campaigns that test employees against mobile-based social engineering attacks.

Simulations run continuously in the background. Employees see fresh, AI-generated scenarios every cycle so they cannot memorize patterns.

### 2. Security Awareness Training
When an employee fails a simulation, an instant microlesson triggers at the moment of highest receptivity, explaining exactly what they missed and how to spot similar attacks.

Beyond microlessons, the platform includes:
- AI Course Builder: Generate full security awareness courses from a text prompt or uploaded policy PDF. The AI produces course outlines, lesson content, quiz questions, and branded video lessons with no camera or script required.
- Multilingual Support: Courses and microlessons available in multiple languages including English and Arabic.
- Gamification: Leaderboards, completion badges, and progress tracking to increase engagement.
- Employee Portal: Employees can access all their assigned courses, view progress, and access recommended training at any time.
- Awareness Campaigns: Pre-built and customizable campaigns covering phishing, social engineering, password hygiene, data handling, and compliance topics.

### 3. Human Risk Management
NexGuards assigns a dynamic risk score to every employee based on simulation click rates, report rates, training completion, quiz performance, and improvement velocity. Features include:

- Employee Risk Scoring: Real-time risk classification (high, medium, low) per employee.
- Department Benchmarking: Compare risk levels across departments and teams to identify the most vulnerable groups.
- Automated Interventions: When an employee or department exceeds a risk threshold, the platform automatically triggers targeted simulations and training.
- Individual Profiles: Per-employee dashboards showing full simulation history, training progress, and behavioral trends.
- Executive Risk Dashboard: Board-ready view of organizational risk posture with drill-down by department, role, and individual.

### 4. Statistics and Reports
Compliance-ready reporting for security and HR teams:

- Phishing Campaign Reports: Click rates, open rates, report rates, repeat offenders, and improvement trends.
- Awareness Reports: Training completion rates, quiz scores, and knowledge retention metrics.
- Compliance Reports: One-click audit exports aligned with SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, NIST, and PCI-DSS.
- Custom Dashboards: Role-based views for CISOs, department heads, and HR.
- Scheduled Reports: Automated weekly, monthly, or quarterly delivery to stakeholders.

## Industries Served
- Financial Services: Banks, insurance firms, investment companies
- Healthcare: Hospitals, clinics, health tech companies
- Technology and SaaS: Software companies, cloud providers, startups
- Government: Public sector agencies, municipalities, defense contractors
- Education: Universities, schools, e-learning platforms
- Energy and Utilities: Power companies, critical infrastructure operators

## Pricing Tiers
- Foundational Phishing: Traditional and AI-generated template simulations, basic campaign reports
- Security Awareness: Full phishing simulations plus awareness training, courses, campaigns, and advanced reporting
- Human Risk Management: Full platform including risk scoring, automated interventions, individual profiles, and board-level reporting

All plans include setup support and onboarding. Custom enterprise packages are available.

## Compliance Frameworks Supported
SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, NIST CSF, PCI-DSS

## Key Differentiators
- OSINT-based personalization: attacks are built from real public data on each employee, not recycled templates
- Multi-vector coverage: email, voice, and SMS from a single platform
- AI voice cloning in Arabic and English dialects
- Microlessons triggered instantly at the moment of failure
- AI course builder that produces video lessons from a single prompt
- Dynamic human risk scoring, not static one-time assessments

## Company
Name: NexGuards
Founded: 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA, United States
Email: tech@nexguards.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nexguards/
Website: https://nexguards.com

## Founders
Mohamed Sherif, Co-Founder: Computer Engineering graduate from The American University in Cairo (4.0 GPA, President's Cup). Former security consultant at PwC Middle East, penetration tester at CyShield and RSA Security, founding cloud security engineer at noon (MENA's largest e-commerce company). IEEE-published AI research backed by an OpenAI grant. TEDx speaker.
Youssef Abolatta, Co-Founder: Business Entrepreneurship graduate from The American University in Cairo. Award-winning entrepreneur and former Product Manager at Paymob (MENA fintech leader).

## Key Links
- Homepage: https://nexguards.com
- Attack Simulations: https://nexguards.com/services/email-phishing/
- Security Awareness Training: https://nexguards.com/services/awareness/
- Human Risk Management: https://nexguards.com/services/human-risk-management/
- Statistics and Reports: https://nexguards.com/services/statistics-reports/
- Pricing: https://nexguards.com/pricing/
- Blog: https://nexguards.com/blog/
- About: https://nexguards.com/about/
- Contact: https://nexguards.com/contact/

## Industry Solutions
- Finance: https://nexguards.com/solutions/finance/
- Healthcare: https://nexguards.com/solutions/healthcare/
- Technology: https://nexguards.com/solutions/technology/
- Government: https://nexguards.com/solutions/government/
- Education: https://nexguards.com/solutions/education/
- Energy: https://nexguards.com/solutions/energy/