Hoxhunt vs. SANS Security Awareness Training

Hoxhunt has the right strategy to make the users stop and think twice about what they are reading or clicking. Taking the user to the point of double-checking on every single unexpected message, and creating a safer scenario for any company.

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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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• Disguises emails like someone from within the organization.
• Does a good job of making an email seem urgent.
• Does a good job of appealing to the emotions, to attract someone to open an attachment.
• Seems to pick up on recent topics that you had emailed about, and tries to imitate something in that topic.

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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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• The score could be more transparent, as there are people with more stars and I don't know why, as I correctly reported the phishing
• Have other ways to get stars other than just reporting email
• Have a user score comparison tool

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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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Train employees with Hoxhunt so that they can learn to recognize and report real attacks. Don’t let your employees fall victim to phishing attacks. Explore the free training demo. Customer Success Support. Fully Automated Training. Threat Insight & Response. explain why behavior change is relevant for cybersecurity, and the applicable psychological mechanisms, tools, and theories.

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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• Mitigating potential threats allows for a continuous workflow
• Reducing the incidence of information leakage allows the company to maintain its competitiveness based on its capacity for innovation.
• It allows our IT security department to detect those users who need better cyber security training.
• The efforts of our IT engineers are now focused on finding improvements, and not on solving problems derived from the computer infection.

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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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