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Creating an Automated Campaign

Setting Up a Recurring Campaign

Updated over 3 weeks ago

Programming recurring campaigns automates phishing campaign delivery across your organization.

It ensures continuous employee training according to a chosen recurrence schedule.

Arsen’s campaign automation is designed to save you significant time while steadily improving security behaviors.


1 – Objectives

  • Learn how to launch an automated campaign

  • Manage campaign types

  • Select employees to target

  • Select the phishing scenarios

  • Define a sending frequency to build a recurring schedule


2 – Prerequisites

Before launching a phishing campaign with Arsen, the following conditions must be met:


3 – Choose the campaign name and type

3.1 – Access creation

Click + New Campaign from the Campaigns section.

Arsen Campaigns page with the “New Campaign” button highlighted.

3.2 – Enter the campaign name

Type the desired campaign name.

Arsen campaign creation screen showing the campaign name input field.

3.3 – Select the campaign type

Choose between:

  • Phishing Assessment Campaign

  • Awareness Training Campaign

Arsen campaign type selector showing Assessment vs. Training Awareness.

Then choose between:

  • Credential Harvesting

  • Click-only

Arsen interface displaying the choice between Credential Harvesting and Click-only.


4 – Select the targets

4.1 – Understand target selection methods

Choose employees by:

  • Filtering users in the platform

  • Selecting employee groups

Target selection screen showing the “Targets” view with filters enabled.

4.2 – Select a dynamic group

Click Groups to select one or more groups.

📚 Note
Dynamic groups are highly recommended for automated campaigns to avoid manually updating group members in the future.

Group selection list showing available employee groups.

4.3 – Validate the targets

Click Continue.

Arsen screen showing one selected group and the Continue button.


5 – Select the scenarios

5.1 – Browse the scenario library

Use filters to display:

  • Arsen-created scenarios

  • Your own custom scenarios

5.2 – Confirm the scenarios

Select the scenarios and click Continue.

📚 Note
Using multiple scenarios in a recurring campaign reduces the need for future adjustments.

Scenario selection screen showing two scenarios selected.


6 – Configure the campaign schedule

6.1 – Select the sending mode

Choose:

  • One time campaign

  • Recurring Campaigns

Select Recurring Campaigns.

Recurring campaign configuration interface showing frequency and campaign summary.

6.2 – Configure the recurrence

6.2.1 – Set the start date

Choose the Start date of the first automated campaign.

Date picker showing November 27, 2025 selected, with weekly frequency chosen.

6.2.2 – Set the recurrence frequency

Use the dropdown menu to choose how often campaigns are generated.

Frequency dropdown showing options such as weekly, every 2 weeks, every 3 weeks, monthly, etc.

6.3 – Choose the sending method

6.3.1 – Send all emails at once

Select Sent on the same day.
Then define the sending time in the field next to Emails will all be sent at...

Arsen interface showing weekly frequency with options for same-day or multi-day sending.

6.3.2 – Spread email sending over multiple days

Select Spread over multiple days, then configure:

  • Number of days

  • Whether weekends are included

  • Daily sending time range

Configuration panel showing number of days, sending hours, and weekend exclusion settings.


7 – Start the automated campaign sequence

Click SCHEDULE CAMPAIGNS to activate the recurring schedule.

Arsen campaign summary screen showing the planned calendar and the “Schedule Campaigns” button.

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