KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus vs. Xurrent

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Xurrent
Score 9.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Xurrent, replacing the former Zenduty is an incident management system for the management of always-on services, helping teams orchestrate incident response for creating better user experiences and brand value.
$6
per month per user
Pricing
KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER PlusXurrent
Editions & Modules
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
Starter
$6
per month per user
Growth
$16
per month per user
Enterprise
$25
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER PlusXurrent
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
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Features
KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER PlusXurrent
Incident Response Platforms
Comparison of Incident Response Platforms features of Product A and Product B
KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus
7.9
115 Ratings
12% below category average
Xurrent
9.5
1 Ratings
6% above category average
Company-wide Incident Reporting7.294 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Integration with Other Security Systems7.792 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Centralized Dashboard8.6114 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Machine Learning to Prevent Incidents7.897 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Live Response for Rapid Remediation8.398 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Attack Chain Visualization00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER PlusXurrent
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(118 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.6
(32 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.5
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
7.7
(8 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER PlusXurrent
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Xurrent
Zenduty helps manage the incident alerts end to end. It can e integrated with Slack to alert the team. It's an easy to configure platform that trigger alerts such as Datadog, aws cloudwatch, GCP, etc. Zenduty leverages data to perform rapid RCAs and helps reduce future incidents. It also helps in automated communications for accelerated and frictionless collaboration between support staff and subject matter experts.
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Pros
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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Xurrent
  • Real time alerts on critical events
  • Incidents management
  • Tasks delegations and personalised communications
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Cons
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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Xurrent
  • Escalation option is limited, only straightforward top down even after re-assigning
  • Override interface is confusing
  • Lack of mobile app alerts and notifications
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Xurrent
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Usability
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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Xurrent
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
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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Xurrent
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
KnowBe4
It was very simple to implement - with just a few settings needed to connect it to our O365 environment
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Xurrent
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
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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Xurrent
Zenduty helps realise tangible impact of the incident resolution by detailed demos. Zenduty pricing is highly competitive and customised compared to other competitors. Zenduty tech support team is easily reachable and helps address any queries/ concerns on priority. Zenduty integration is super quick and easy. Zenduty can also be integrated with other tools such as Slack, gmail for real time updates.
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Return on Investment
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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Xurrent
  • Decreased incidents by 40%
  • Decrease in incident resolution and escalation time by 50%
  • Increase in CSAT score by 40%
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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.

Xurrent Screenshots

Screenshot of Zenduty's incident dashboard, which provides a single pane of glass view of critical incidentsScreenshot of Zenduty's incident command center, used to co-ordinate incident response and resolve incidents with speedScreenshot of the integrated communications available to accelerate incident collaboration with Slack and Microsoft TeamsScreenshot of the custom escalation policies that help to ensure swift incident response.Screenshot of an example custom alert routing rule, to route alerts to specific teams or subject matter expertsScreenshot of custom on-call scheduling