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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cofense Triage

    Score9.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Cofense Triage accelerates phishing qualification, investigation, and response by automating standard responses to suspicious emails to make analysts more efficient and driving out actionable intelligence, and providing incident response playbook.N/A

    KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/APhishER is presented as a lightweight Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) platform to orchestrate threat response and manage the high volume of potentially malicious email messages reported by users. And, with automatic prioritization of emails, PhishER helps InfoSec and Security Operations team cut through the inbox noise and respond to the most dangerous threats more quickly.

    $1.15

    per seat

    Pricing
    Cofense TriageKnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    501-1000 Monthly Pricing 3 Year
    $1.15
    per seat
    101-500 Monthly Pricing 3 Year
    $1.50
    per seat
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cofense TriageKnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—For organizations with over 1,000 seats, contact sales for a quote.
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    Community Pulse
    Cofense TriageKnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus
    Considered Both Products
    Cofense
    Chose Cofense Triage
    Cofense UI is easy to use and is very understandable. There are other factors which Cofense is better than KnowBe4 with.
    Incentivized
    Chose Cofense Triage
    Triage is an excellent solution for analysing and triaging emails. It has a set of rules which can be used to rate the risk of meaages, these rules are updated on a daily basis to keep up with known IOCs of attackers. The support from Cofense is also excellent and reaching out …
    Incentivized
    Chose Cofense Triage
    The other product had a lot of fails on the auto-processing and did not integrate well with our current environment. One issue had to do with the way it sends the submissions to its processing engine—our email gateway configuration would have blocked this traffic. I also did …
    Incentivized
    KnowBe4
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    33 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    125 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    124 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    36 Answers
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    125 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    112 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    20 Answers
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    114 Answers
    Features
    Cofense TriageKnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus
    Incident Response Platforms
    Comparison of Incident Response Platforms features of Cofense Triage and KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus
    Feature
    Cofense Triage
    6.4
    35 Ratings
    33% below category average
    KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus
    8.4
    122 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Integration with Other Security Systems5.034 Ratings8.497 Ratings
    Attack Chain Visualization6.127 Ratings00 Ratings
    Centralized Dashboard7.735 Ratings9.0120 Ratings
    Live Response for Rapid Remediation6.731 Ratings8.1102 Ratings
    Company-wide Incident Reporting00 Ratings8.3101 Ratings
    Machine Learning to Prevent Incidents00 Ratings8.0103 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Cofense TriageKnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (38 ratings)
    8.8
    (128 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (44 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.3
    (12 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cofense TriageKnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cofense
    The tool is very helpful in improving Phishing detection capabilities as it streamlines the process of analyzing user reports a lot. Besides it has a built-in mechanism of rating reporters(end-users) based on their historical performance. Downside - tool requires continuous resource investment to deliver best result. Tool is not helping too much in improving user-education, because automated response process is not immediate and is prone to errors
    Incentivized
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    KnowBe4
    From an MSP perspective, it’s easier to sell products that provide cybersecurity protections if it’s all in one bundle. If you start providing 5 different email security products (even with the same vendor), it becomes confusing to non-technical individuals. They need a single package that doesn’t break the bank. Other products like Ironscales do that by providing an “all-in-one” package, essentially. And for a much less expensive price. I believe if you included all the features of anti-phishing, account takeover protection, and security awareness training, it would be close to $8/person each month. Competitors offer rates closer to $2/user, which include all those features and sometimes more.
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    Pros
    Cofense
    • Separating links and attachments contained in the email, and checking to see if they are known malicious.
    • Clustering like emails to save time when responding.
    • Providing risks scores with each cluster to give an estimate on which clusters should be addressed first.
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    KnowBe4
    • KnowBe4's Phish Alert Button effectively collects all reported emails from end-users in one place.
    • The PhishML feature of PhishER effectively auto-scan reported emails using machine learning technologies, providing a tag for each email based on its body content and other aspects.
    • The PhishRIP feature works well by allowing the security team to create a query and quarantine all relevant emails from the end user's email system.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Cofense
    • There are too many interdependent pieces which you have to acquire separately.
    • I think Cofense has a lot of capabilities and usefulness, but I think it's too a la carte.
    • We own Cofense and PhishMe currently and there are some gaping holes that require additional licensing to close.
    Incentivized
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    KnowBe4
    • Issues with Global Blocklist
    • Email Template Modification - Simplification
    • Target Specific Users vs. Groups
    • PhishRIP info tabs (i.e. if improperly check ripped emails are turned into tests. This has caused issues.) Info tabs or markers allow user to hover and get more information about what action a check box or slider provides.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cofense
    Cofense is stable and provides easy to use solution to aid the investigation of emails as well as managing simulated phishing campaigns.
    Incentivized
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    KnowBe4
    When we first discovered that KnowBe4 released something like this, we saw a demo of it and were floored at what it could do and how it could help us from a security standpoint. Gone are the days of us in IT sending out a mass email saying please don't click on anything in the email from sender "X", and it allows us to quietly and easily ensure that people don't take any action on malicious emails.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Cofense
    The interface is easy and intuitive.
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    KnowBe4
    It has been super easy for users to work with training and quizzes. Admin is a little difficult because you have to build the specific campaign type you want. But you can even create your own training and upload it to your LMS. This is great!!
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cofense
    We've experienced zero downtime.
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    KnowBe4
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Cofense
    No slowness seen.
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    KnowBe4
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Cofense
    No answers on this topic
    KnowBe4
    When I have a question, their were fast to respond. The downside is a that at least once I had to work through the issue with the person assigned to help me because they didn't know the answer. That said they did try and were patient. However they should have known the answer on integration.
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    In-Person Training
    Cofense
    Training was through, relevant and easy to follow.
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    KnowBe4
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Cofense
    No answers on this topic
    KnowBe4
    It was very simple to implement - with just a few settings needed to connect it to our O365 environment
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cofense
    The other product had a lot of fails on the auto-processing and did not integrate well with our current environment. One issue had to do with the way it sends the submissions to its processing engine—our email gateway configuration would have blocked this traffic. I also did not like the user interface.
    Incentivized
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    KnowBe4
    We evaluated the Titan options because we have already used their DNS filtering product. However, KnowBe4 came in with a better price per user and a significantly stronger product lineup, particularly with its security awareness training component.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Cofense
    We've experienced zero downtime
    Incentivized
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    KnowBe4
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Cofense
    • Due to the integration potential, large amounts of time are saved on a daily basis.
    • Incident response time has dropped due to the increased information available by having access to phishing emails directly.
    • Staff are able to effectively learn how multiple tools in our environment are used by mastering Triage. This has decreased training time greatly and increased the effectiveness of each associate.
    Incentivized
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    KnowBe4
    • There has been a 700% increase in emails being reported now. Previously, staff were only reporting 4 emails a month. It is easier for us to promote the phish alert button, receive automated remediation and rapidly respond.
    • We had no reports on the amount of phishing emails were coming through Mimecast but now we have reports for the board of trustees.
    • Every Wednesday we talk about cyber security to all staff, PhishER allows us to point out the trend and what to look out for which raises awareness. Never before were we able to talk about cyber security like this.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Cofense Triage Screenshots

    Screenshot of Triage DashboardScreenshot of Triage Dashboard Cluster DetailsScreenshot of Triage Cluster DetailsScreenshot of Triage Cluster Malicious AttachmentScreenshot of Triage Cluster HeadersScreenshot of Triage Reporter Details

    KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus Screenshots

    Screenshot of How PhishER Plus enables a critical workstream to help IR teams work together to mitigate the phishing threat and is suited for any organization that wants to automatically prioritize and manage potentially malicious messages.