Cofense LMS vs. Hook Security vs. SANS Security Awareness Training

LMS is a more appropriate choice to be used if the organization is large and has multiple verticals where the trainings differ to a great etent from vertical to another vertical. However if the company is a small scale org with limited hierarchy, any open source portal is enough to serve the purpose.

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Hooks has allowed us to be a bit more agile in our training and testing with phishing scams. Hooks reports allow us to identify people who we need more help to identifying phishing emails. By implementing the the monthly phishing campaigns, we can then provide specific training for individual facing issues in particular areas

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SANS Security Awareness Training program would be well suited for a large organization that needs to develop multiple training programs with different courses based on the roles of the end users. It seemed a bit difficult at times to achieve simple setup processes because of the configurations tailored to larger, more complex organizations.

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• Training modules: developed Using Learning Science Principles
• Story Based Environment
• Learn by doing

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• Hooks make it easy to generate the reports and gives a through breakdown of campaign details.
• Users are become more aware of potential threats and avoid them.
• It integrated easily with O365 deployment.

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• Variety of cyber threat videos and presentations
• Web based and mobile access to the platform
• Easy to manage administrator access to configure the training sessions

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• UI can be more interactive
• Segregating the users in different groups can be further automated via AD details
• The end user mobile notification feature should be there rather than only mail.

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• It would be nice to be able to customize templates even more and brand them.
• Automatic course enrollment for new employees should be simplified.
• Interface could be more streamlined.

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• Mass import of users was a bit confusing
• User interface was sometimes not intuitive
• Ability to upload custom content was difficult to use

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Cofense LMS works well at our environment due to it well know security awareness training without any complications. Ease to get support documentations & end users feedback. While in MetaCompliance Support & documentation was not that easy for end users.

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We actually are currently migrating to Proofpoint Security Awareness Training because of its integration with the Proofpoint email filter. This will allow us to target specific users who are clicking on bad emails with specific training material. We have used KnowBe4 in the past as well, but it was rather costly compared to SANS Security Awareness Training and Proofpoint. SANS Security Awareness Training seems to be the least easy-to-use interface from an administrative perspective compared to the other two.

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• Trainings made user more aware of the security attacks they are vulnerable to
• Strengthened the overall security posture of the company
• Detterent control as incase the the personnel are not able to finish off their training, it is followed by HR action.

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• Ease of enrollment for training new users.
• Monthly email campaign to test our users.
• Getting clients to address the fundamentals of cyber security in short and capture behavioral data.

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• Positive impact knowing we are educating our staff from phishing and potential cyber criminals
• Considering the potential for bad actors infiltrating our network, this is a small expense
• Pricing based on actual end users, worth the investment

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