Huntress vs. KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Huntress
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
Huntress is a security platform that surfaces hidden threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits. The platform helps IT resellers protect their customers from persistent footholds, ransomware and other attacks.N/A
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
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 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 risk management through personalized training and automation. With…
$2.79
per seat
Pricing
HuntressKnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
Editions & Modules
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SAT Advanced 501-1000 Monthly Pricing 3 Year
$2.79
per seat
SAT Advanced 251-500 Monthly Pricing 3 Year
$2.96
per seat
SAT Advanced 101-250 Monthly Pricing 3 Year
$3.19
per seat
SAT Advanced 51-100 Monthly Pricing 3 Year
$3.40
per seat
SAT Advanced 25-50 Monthly Pricing 3 Year
$3.75
per seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HuntressKnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsPricing listed is for SAT Advanced. Other levels available. For organizations with over 1,000 seats, get a quote.
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Community Pulse
HuntressKnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
Considered Both Products
Huntress

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KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
One of the other platforms may have some features where they excel. This is to be expected. But there is no other platform that covers all the topics and most of them very well, as KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training does. Also there is no other platform that offers such a huge …
Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
They're all pretty similar in my opinion, but KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training is the most user-friendly from what I've seen. The reporting is also a little bit better from KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training.
Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
Proofpoint compares very favorably to KnowBe4. I think the customization in Proofpoint is better. The integration with their email security is a double edge sword and we had some concerns the training might suffer without their email integration. We had a similar concern with …
Features
HuntressKnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Huntress
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Ratings
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
8.9
350 Ratings
3% above category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.0312 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.7338 Ratings
Security Awareness Training
Comparison of Security Awareness Training features of Product A and Product B
Huntress
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Ratings
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
8.3
382 Ratings
2% below category average
Training Content Library00 Ratings8.6379 Ratings
Multilingual Training Content00 Ratings8.3215 Ratings
Training Gamification00 Ratings7.7316 Ratings
Industry-Specific Security Training00 Ratings7.6334 Ratings
Individualized Security Training Plans00 Ratings8.2324 Ratings
Phishing Simulations00 Ratings9.3377 Ratings
Security Reporting00 Ratings8.5367 Ratings
Integration with Security Tech Stack00 Ratings8.1219 Ratings
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User Ratings
HuntressKnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(13 ratings)
9.0
(727 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(56 ratings)
Usability
9.5
(5 ratings)
9.1
(215 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(20 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(21 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(260 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(5 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(17 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(24 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(16 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(39 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
6.4
(8 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(21 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(12 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(17 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(16 ratings)
User Testimonials
HuntressKnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
Likelihood to Recommend
Huntress Labs Incorporated
Huntress is great for a managed service provider to provide a better cybersecurity stack to their endpoints/customers. Some smaller clients cannot afford high-priced SOC services but require SOC-level protection. Along with a couple of other layers of security, Huntress provides peace of mind for the MSP that if a threat were to arise, they would be notified with specific instructions for dealing with that threat.
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KnowBe4
I think the most important factor is that our risk has decreased significantly among staff. Our staff is well below the industry (Education) benchmark in terms of users that are "prone to phishing". We also have multiple instances over the years where employees have stopped real efforts to access data illegally or an attempt to take funds from our institution
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Pros
Huntress Labs Incorporated
  • Using the latest industry knowledge of threats that have been ongoing, but not previously known and projecting it back in time against their installed endpoints to identify machines that are vulnerable or breached and when it these events occurred
  • Very quiet. If they alert, it is a thing.
  • Very good at remediation.
  • They communicate extremely well when it matters.
  • While there are the most extensive products more often than not they are the first to alert us to a threat.
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KnowBe4
  • Phish tests can be set to various difficulty levels as staff becomes more knowledgeable in catching phish emails.
  • Automated phish tests and training save a lot of admin time. The product can also test for phone and USB stick practices.
  • The phish alert button in Outlook, along with PhishER and PhishFlip allow easy managing and response to actual phishing emails.
  • The interactive training is well designed to cover all types of phishing and safe email and phone behavior.
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Cons
Huntress Labs Incorporated
  • Now that they have EDR capability, they need to fully participate in MITRE testing for direct comparison against other EDR products.
  • Now that they are going into Managed Antivirus and EDR with isolation capabilities they need to update their SLA comparative to other vendors
  • Support for non-Windows OSes for consistency in a network
  • It would be nice to seed canary files in custom shares on servers.
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KnowBe4
  • Many items in the library aren't applicable to our use case, and it's sometimes difficult to filter out what I'm looking for.
  • I don't love the training dashboard, but maybe that's just a "me" thing.
  • Setting up groups can be tedious.
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Likelihood to Renew
Huntress Labs Incorporated
No answers on this topic
KnowBe4
No question, KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training is a great value to our organization. Properly training our users in the proper use of email and how to be aware of possible dangerous emails is incredibly important now. Also, training users in the best practices for phone calls, as well as internet browsing can prevent data or information from being stolen or exposed. Users have even benefited when using their personal devices as a result of the trainings they have received at work.
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Usability
Huntress Labs Incorporated
We dropped SentinelOne in favor of Huntress because the UI was much more simplistic for the tier 1 techs to maintain. It beats the old web design model of three clicks to where you want to go. It is very intuitive. No one needs training to figure out how to navigate its console.
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KnowBe4
The training videos we have access to are high quality, and provide a wide variety. The Inside Man videos has a cult following within our organization, and has driven a much greater interest in security awareness. And KB4's willingness to negotiate pricing for us as a nonprofit has been very valuable to us as well.
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Reliability and Availability
Huntress Labs Incorporated
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
Huntress Labs Incorporated
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
Huntress Labs Incorporated
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
Huntress Labs Incorporated
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
Huntress Labs Incorporated
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
Huntress Labs Incorporated
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
Huntress Labs Incorporated
Firstly from a business model, [VMware] Carbon Black [Cloud Managed Detection] was not outfitted for the MSP where Huntress is very MSP-friendly from an affordably easy point to entry to value for money licensing. Carbon Black TS is not bad in anyway, well, that we found, but Huntress is a new layer of security that fits between the OS and AV layers to provide additional information, monitoring, and detection. With Huntress backing the MSP, [it] sure does help as well.
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KnowBe4
KnowBe4 offered a significantly more favorable cost-benefit ratio compared to other solutions. Its seamless integration with our existing infrastructure—particularly Active Directory and email systems—was the most compatible with our operational and security requirements.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Huntress Labs Incorporated
No answers on this topic
KnowBe4
I was not involved in the pricing, billing or contract terms.
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Scalability
Huntress Labs Incorporated
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
Huntress Labs Incorporated
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
Huntress Labs Incorporated
  • We have been able to lower operational costs by shifting to Huntress.
  • We've been able to cut costs to our clients by utilizing Huntress over competing products.
  • In spite of inflation, we've been able to keep our managed service prices at a steady, below market rate, because of Huntress.
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KnowBe4
  • There is really no way one can make all the needed trainings with in house resources anymore! The cost for this would be way way more than that of any platform!
  • There is no way to even calculate the damage a company would suffer in case of a cybersecurity breach! So the cost for the use of the KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training platform if minimal compared to that of a possible breach!
  • The cost of creating content for security awareness training is no longer realistic for a company. This is really no option, and it is in no way comparable to the cost of access to the training material available in the KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training platform. Also the training content needs to be constantly updated!
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ScreenShots

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Screenshots

Screenshot of The Phishing Dashboard. This displays how end users are doing at-a-glance and in comparison to peers across industries with Industry Benchmarking.Screenshot of KnowBe4's partners, including The Security Awareness Company, Popcorn Training, exploqii, Twist & Shout, El Pescador, CLTRe, Saya University, and MediaPRO. Together, they create security awareness training content available in the ModStore.Screenshot of A security training quiz question showing "Security Moments Series: Spot the Bad Link" asking what Lisa should do when receiving an unexpected email with an HTML attachment, with three answer options and Submit/Cancel buttons.Screenshot of The AIDA Phishing Template Generator interface, which displays a customizable phishing simulation tool with template setup options on the left and a preview of a generated "Annual Bonus Announcement" email featuring a QR code attack vector on the right.Screenshot of The AIDA Configure Training interface, which displays settings for personalized remedial phishing training, including user enrollment options, completion timeframes, knowledge refresher schedules, and notification preferences, with an "Activate Remedial Training" button to implement the configuration.