Avatao vs. KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Avatao
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Avatao’s security training goes beyond simple tutorials and videos offering an interactive job-relevant learning experience to developer teams, security champions, pentesters, security analysts and DevOps teams. Avatao's approach to secure coding training The Avatao platform immerses developers in high-profile cases and provides them with real, in-depth experience with challenging security breaches. Engineers learn to hack and patch the bugs themselves. The vendor…N/A
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
Score 9.1 out of 10
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KnowBe4 is a security awareness and compliance training and simulated social engineering product. It is used by organizations worldwide to strengthen their security culture and reduce human risk. The product includes a comprehensive suite of awareness and compliance training, real-time user coaching, AI-powered simulated social engineering, crowdsourced anti-phishing defense and an AI suite that enhances human risk management through personalized training and automation.…
$0.95
per month (billed annually) per seat
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Silver
$0.95
per month (billed annually) per seat
Gold
$1.10
per month (billed annually) per seat
Platinum
$1.25
per month (billed annually) per seat
Diamond
$1.70
per month (billed annually) per seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AvataoKnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsThere are four subscription levels: Silver, Gold, Platinum, and Diamond. Each level is priced per user with a sliding scale based on number of users. Monthly pricing per seat billed on an annual basis.
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Features
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Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Avatao
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Ratings
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
8.9
301 Ratings
4% above category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.3267 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.4291 Ratings
Security Awareness Training
Comparison of Security Awareness Training features of Product A and Product B
Avatao
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Ratings
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
8.2
329 Ratings
3% below category average
Training Content Library00 Ratings8.6326 Ratings
Multilingual Training Content00 Ratings8.6180 Ratings
Training Gamification00 Ratings8.2269 Ratings
Industry-Specific Security Training00 Ratings7.2287 Ratings
Individualized Security Training Plans00 Ratings7.5278 Ratings
Phishing Simulations00 Ratings9.4324 Ratings
Security Reporting00 Ratings8.5317 Ratings
Integration with Security Tech Stack00 Ratings7.7185 Ratings
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User Ratings
AvataoKnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(6 ratings)
9.2
(675 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
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(0 ratings)
9.5
(53 ratings)
Usability
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(0 ratings)
8.1
(162 ratings)
Availability
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(0 ratings)
9.1
(18 ratings)
Performance
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(0 ratings)
8.8
(19 ratings)
Support Rating
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(0 ratings)
9.2
(258 ratings)
In-Person Training
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(0 ratings)
8.8
(5 ratings)
Online Training
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(0 ratings)
8.5
(14 ratings)
Implementation Rating
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(0 ratings)
8.4
(21 ratings)
Configurability
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(0 ratings)
8.2
(13 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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(0 ratings)
8.1
(39 ratings)
Ease of integration
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8.9
(7 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(19 ratings)
Professional Services
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(0 ratings)
8.9
(12 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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8.6
(15 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
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(0 ratings)
8.2
(14 ratings)
User Testimonials
AvataoKnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
Likelihood to Recommend
Avatao
Great functionalities with a full approach to different programming languages along with features to making changes to the code to make it successful and amazing. Have been using it for a long time and satisfied with their services a lot. Some functionalities need some changes otherwise it is a great platform. I recommend this tool to others businesses.
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KnowBe4
KnowBe4 is the best product we have found to automate our security awareness training and testing. The reports that come from each round of phish training are easy to manage, and remedial training for phish fails is automated and tracked in the product. The Phish Alert button, along with the PhishER feature (AI response to reported alerts), and the ability to remove verified phish emails from all mailboxes make managing dangerous emails easy for our small IT staff.
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Pros
Avatao
  • Interactive tutorials that make learning feel effortless and fun.
  • Wide range of topics covered.
  • Challenges are sufficently difficult and therefore exciting to solve.
  • If you get stuck, asking for help is easy and you are provided with just enough information to get going again.
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KnowBe4
  • KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training has well-designed videos on almost every topic of social engineering attacks, making it the best in the market. It has less technical videos for Non-IT people and high technical like KMSAT for IT people other than cyber security guys.
  • KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training has a good phishing test campaign feature from which you can launch a phishing test for all or a selected group of people to test them on a real phishing test environment.
  • KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training has a good number of security related games and quizzes that makes the training part funny and attractive.
  • KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training provides monthly newsletters and posters that we can use to send to all employees to make them aware of the current security scenarios.
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Cons
Avatao
  • [I feel] it needs to be more functional while integrating with other platforms. Not the biggest drawback but there is a need to add more languages to it like PHP, Go, and Scala which is also very much developed and used in the organization.
  • [I believe] the support team needs to be more active and responsive while dealing with the customers.
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KnowBe4
  • They have a lot of security-related videos but still, they are missing the emerging topics in the security field. They should look at their Modstore and make some videos on trending security topics.
  • The game and quiz section of KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training is not well enough to entertain the end users.
  • The security coach is difficult to setup in your environment because it uses real-time data from the end-user devices. So to integrate it with your environment, you have to provide real-time access of every single click in your environment.
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Likelihood to Renew
Avatao
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KnowBe4
Between the ease of use, cost effectiveness, functionality and continued improvements Knowbe4 continues to make it would be pretty hard to find another competitive product that wraps it all up like KnowBe4 has. Not saying it couldn't happen, but haven't seen anything that competes at this point.
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Usability
Avatao
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KnowBe4
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training is simple to use, simple to administer, effective, with quality content. It is easy to take the training and we have the reminders set so that the longer a user puts the training off, the more frequently they will receive reminder emails. Eventually they get emailed every day until they take the training. But with a simple click, they can get into the training content.
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Reliability and Availability
Avatao
No answers on this topic
KnowBe4
There have only been a handful of outages in the 2 years we have had the product. Even during those instances, parts of the system were still operational
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Performance
Avatao
No answers on this topic
KnowBe4
Pages load quickly, filter/sort quickly, and don't slow down or freeze. Everything is smooth and very easy to use. There are a places in the UI where you can forget how to get there, but other than that everything is great. We have had no issues using any part of the website.
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Support Rating
Avatao
No answers on this topic
KnowBe4
Tech prod support is great! I did have to ask for a new customer success rep, needed a more experienced person to match my 12 years of experience running Cybersec training programs. Would suggest that more matching of rep level of knowledge to client level knowledge would help.
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In-Person Training
Avatao
No answers on this topic
KnowBe4
Helpful and knowledgeable account managers have helped us navigate and use the system to our full potential
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Online Training
Avatao
No answers on this topic
KnowBe4
confusing question. I inherited this application so I didnt get any formal training other than the person who was leaving. The CSM provided some later on when I asked in a zoom call
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Implementation Rating
Avatao
No answers on this topic
KnowBe4
The implementation went really well and KnowBe4 was there the whole time on setup to make sure things were setup correctly. The only thing we had to figure out on our own was to script users automatically being added to security groups. So that when they sync to knowBe4 from AD they are placed into the same/correct groups.
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Alternatives Considered
Avatao
Avatao is playing a great role in providing fantastic services. The great feature that I like the most in Avatao that it does not support only one programming language, it ranges its security protocols from various programming languages like Python, java, C#, and C++. Avatao bot is also very helpful in simple operation as when you get stuck somewhere the bot can actually help and make you out of that easily.
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KnowBe4
Knowbe4 overall has more functionality than the competition. The other items out there simply send some emails and monitor, but not to the extend this application does. That and the level of customer service you get, is FAR above the industry standard in this area. I've never once had an issue with anything that couldn't be solved by support.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Avatao
No answers on this topic
KnowBe4
I was not involved in the pricing, billing or contract terms.
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Scalability
Avatao
No answers on this topic
KnowBe4
The product scales greatly. As long as you upgrade the license to support the number of users you are needing, adding in those new users is easy. Also getting those users set up with trainings/campaigns is very easy as well
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Professional Services
Avatao
No answers on this topic
KnowBe4
The team was great to work with and took their time to ensure that we knew what we were doing with the product and that it was set up to meet the specific needs of our organization. This wasn't just a cookie-cutter deployment, but rather they focused specifically on our needs.
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Return on Investment
Avatao
  • Using the platform for us was a first step in teaching secure code best practices on a large scale.
  • Implementing training increases overall security within the company.
  • Our security culture evolves by doing trainings on a regular basis.
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KnowBe4
  • The training KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training provides has directly assisted in preventing security incidents in the workplace.
  • The KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training platform makes it easy for employees to keep compliant in their respective fields.
  • The KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training PhishER service has made reporting suspicious emails easy and accessible for our users and has reduced the time taken to analyze an email as a legitimate threat. Only needing to manually review 1/4 of all reported emails.
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ScreenShots

Avatao Screenshots

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KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Screenshots

Screenshot of The Phishing Dashboard 
Displays how end users are doing at-a-glance and in comparison to peers across industries with Industry Benchmarking.Screenshot of Virtual Risk Officer™
The Virtual Risk Officer functionality helps identify risk to support data-driven decisions about a security awareness plan.Screenshot of the library of security awareness training content. KnowBe4 partners with The Security Awareness Company, Popcorn Training, exploqii, Twist & Shout, El Pescador, CLTRe, Saya University, and MediaPRO.Screenshot of the library of security awareness training content. KnowBe4 partners with The Security Awareness Company, Popcorn Training, exploqii, Twist & Shout, El Pescador, CLTRe, Saya University, and MediaPRO.