Huntress vs. KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Huntress
Score 9.4 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 PhishER/PhishER Plus
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
PhishER 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.
$0.75
per month (billed annually) per seat
Pricing
HuntressKnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus
Editions & Modules
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3001-5000 Monthly Pricing Per Seat
$0.75
per month (billed annually) per seat
2001-3000 Monthly Pricing Per Seat
$0.85
per month (billed annually) per seat
1001-2000 Monthly Pricing Per Seat
$1.00
per month (billed annually) per seat
501-1000 Monthly Pricing Per Seat
$1.15
per month (billed annually) per seat
101-500 Monthly Pricing Per Seat
$1.50
per month (billed annually) per seat
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HuntressKnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Features
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Incident Response Platforms
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Huntress
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Ratings
KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus
7.9
115 Ratings
12% below category average
Company-wide Incident Reporting00 Ratings7.194 Ratings
Integration with Other Security Systems00 Ratings7.692 Ratings
Centralized Dashboard00 Ratings8.6114 Ratings
Machine Learning to Prevent Incidents00 Ratings7.797 Ratings
Live Response for Rapid Remediation00 Ratings8.398 Ratings
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User Ratings
HuntressKnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(13 ratings)
9.3
(118 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(7 ratings)
Usability
9.5
(5 ratings)
8.6
(32 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(5 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(3 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.7
(8 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
HuntressKnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus
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
PhishER comes with some good features, such as PhishML, PhishRIP, PhishFlip, etc. These features help us manage phishing email reporting incidents. From reporting emails via Phish Alert Button plug-in to collecting all reported emails in one place at the PhishER dashboard. Now, the PhishML comes into play, scanning all reported emails and tagging each as clean, spam, or threat. With the help of this machine learning-based algorithm, our investigation process becomes easier. Other features, such as PhishRip, help to search and quarantine phishing emails, and PhishFlip converts a real phishing campaign to a test phishing campaign.
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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
  • One platform that integrates reported emails and using PhishFlip to educated staff.
  • Automation to remove malicious emails from mailboxes.
  • Instantly report back to users if an email is safe or malicious.
  • Easily review vital technical information to help you make a decision if an email is a threat.
  • Allow comments to be left from staff and IT.
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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
  • 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
Huntress Labs Incorporated
No answers on this topic
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.
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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
I give it an eight for the feature set. While I only give it an eight because the complexity and interconnectedness of the tools mean that there needs to be quite a bit of RTFM to get the most out of the products.
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Support Rating
Huntress Labs Incorporated
No answers on this topic
KnowBe4
I haven't needed to reach out to support very often, but when I have the responses have been timely and have provided the solutions I have needed. The support has been friendly and have always been able to resolve any issues that have come up.
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Implementation Rating
Huntress Labs Incorporated
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
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
Harmony does not provide security awareness training or simulated phishing emails like KnowB4. However, it does provide a phish alert button & workflow similar to PhishER & we may stop using PhishER because the Phish Alert reports from PhishER don't feed into Harmony to help train it from phishing emails that go through. We got Harmony after KnowB4 because we needed a tool to PREVENT phishing emails from getting to people's inboxes in the first place, which KnowB4 has very little capability for other than PhishER+ blacklists. It is a shame KnowB4 does not have the anti threat phishing prevention like Harmony considering all the email data it has & its existing AI analytic capabilities.
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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
  • Phish/ER & PAD: Identifying email threats more quickly allowed us to send alert to the users' community in a timely manner based on the pattern of the threat.
  • KnowBe4 Training Campaigns have proven to noticeably increase users' awareness.
  • KnowBe4 Phishing Campaigns made users realize how dangerous and deceiving hacker can be.
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ScreenShots

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.