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Barracuda Security Awareness Training

Barracuda Security Awareness Training
Formerly Barracuda Phishline

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What is Barracuda Security Awareness Training?

Barracuda's Security Awareness Training (formerly Barracuda Phishline) provides a suite of applications supporting phishing social engineering simulations with data analytics for evaluation of results as well as targeted training and education to boost readiness. PhishLine was acquired by Barracuda in…

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Barracuda PhishLine is a valuable tool used by organizations to enhance email security awareness and train employees to identify and …
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Reinforced awareness

8 out of 10
September 21, 2022
Incentivized
Helps to make companies aware of how a security breach is a mail away. With campaigning and results, we can show how email security is …
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Popular Features

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  • Phishing Simulations (38)
    7.4
    74%
  • Security Reporting (39)
    7.3
    73%
  • Training Content Library (39)
    7.1
    71%
  • Training Gamification (34)
    6.8
    68%
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What is Barracuda Security Awareness Training?

Barracuda's Security Awareness Training (formerly Barracuda Phishline) provides a suite of applications supporting phishing social engineering simulations with data analytics for evaluation of results as well as targeted training and education to boost readiness. PhishLine was acquired by Barracuda…

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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

7.1
Avg 8.3

Security Awareness Training

Common features of security awareness training products.

7
Avg 8.3
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Product Details

What is Barracuda Security Awareness Training?

Fight phishing and other potentially-devastating attacks that can slip through security gateways. These evolving and sophisticated attack techniques, designed to fool employees, put your business at risk for data loss, financial fraud, and embarrassing exposure. The solution helps to transform employees from potential victims into a layer of defense with Security Awareness Training from Barracuda (formerly Barracuda Phishline).

Barracuda Security Awareness Training Features

  • Supported: Multivector simulation campaigns
  • Supported: Customizable Templates
  • Supported: Advanced Interaction Tracking
  • Supported: Educational Content Library
  • Supported: Incident Response Capacities
  • Supported: Reporting and Analytics
  • Supported: Mail Server/ LDAP Integration
  • Supported: Advanced Interactions
  • Supported: Administrative Features
  • Supported: Dedicated Consultant Support (Optional)

Barracuda Security Awareness Training Competitors

Barracuda Security Awareness Training Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Barracuda's Security Awareness Training (formerly Barracuda Phishline) provides a suite of applications supporting phishing social engineering simulations with data analytics for evaluation of results as well as targeted training and education to boost readiness. PhishLine was acquired by Barracuda in January 2018, and is now part of Barracuda's security portfolio.

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training and Infosec IQ are common alternatives for Barracuda Security Awareness Training.

Reviewers rate Phishing Simulations highest, with a score of 7.4.

The most common users of Barracuda Security Awareness Training are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Barracuda PhishLine is a valuable tool used by organizations to enhance email security awareness and train employees to identify and prevent phishing attacks. By conducting quarterly assessments, users have been able to identify problem users, assign training, and track completion efficiently. The training material provided by PhishLine has proven effective in educating staff on how to recognize and avoid spam and phishing emails. Moreover, organizations appreciate the compliance support offered by Barracuda Security Awareness Training, particularly for HIPAA compliant organizations where security awareness training for users is crucial. With different training types available for users, managers, and C-level executives, organizations can effectively target their training efforts.

The flexibility of the product in using pre-made content or creating custom content has been highly beneficial to users. Moreover, the ease of setup and convenient training videos provided by Barracuda Security Awareness Training have made it a preferred choice for companies looking to educate their employees on security risks both in enterprise and home environments. Through regular phishing simulations, this product promotes email security awareness among employees and helps them develop the skills to spot malicious emails effectively. Users have found Barracuda PhishLine helpful in training staff to recognize dangerous emails and potential threats, securing accounts, and preventing data breaches. Additionally, the trend analytics and behavior matrix offered by Barracuda allow users to monitor individual user behavior and assess security risks accurately.

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We started using Barracuda PhishLine after some of our competitors got phished and suffered from severe downtime. We used to inform our users by mail and intranet messages, but you have no idea if the users get the message. Barracuda PhishLine shows us if our users are aware and paying attention to the risks of phishing emails or not. And by testing the users, we get to inform and train them. Double win. The bonus: it is included in the Total Security package.
Luke Page | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use this to help train our users about phishing and other forms of email attacks, as well as the general risks of cybercrime. This helps to strengthen the last line of defense - the human behind the keyboard. The tool also allows us to test our endpoint protection products using the collection of file-based attacks.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use the product to help our employees to distinguish a fake email from a real email. We receive lots of phishing emails, for example, from banks, and from the government. Sometimes our users are prone to click on a false link, and lots of possible "wrong" things can happen. We, of course, have endpoint protection but training the "human" firewall is always the better option.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We experienced some problems in the past with targeted phishing mails. We use Barracuda Security Awareness Training now to train our users to recognise fake and harmful mails. On a regular basis, we also send out a training campaign with some video material to educate them about this.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Barracuda Security Awareness Training to protect our brand against impersonation attacks. We see that there are attacked phishing emails sent with our brand to our customers to harvest money. We want to protect our customers by sending out phishing campaigns to create awareness.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We regularly use Barracuda to test employees to see if they are susceptible to being tricked by phishing scams received in their email inbox. It is a useful tool especially in that it allows us to produce custom tests and provide management with useful statistics so that certain employees who need more security awareness training can be identified.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Staff is sent a weekly or fortnightly training module over a 1-2 month period. Then an email simulation is sent to determine how many staff members click on the "fake" email. The click-through rate is relatively low. We currently have an in-house yearly one-hour mandatory training session around Cyber Security and use Barracuda Phishline to supplement this throughout the year.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
People are not aware of the problem that phishing can cause, and that makes them not to buy or acquire anti-phishing solutions, which is a complete mistake, since it is necessary to protect all the sectors and fronts that the company can have open, and that is what we must try to transmit to the people.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Recently, Barracuda has implemented further training scenarios including questions that have helped to ensure better-standardized training. Our requirements for CMMC and PCI training are much better today using the Barracuda Security Awareness Training. Most employees are not technologically savvy and require extensive and consistent training to ensure safer technology operations for their daily work. This has also helped our organization to stay ahead of the curve, requiring less one-on-one training and building a consistent diet of training using the tools Barracuda provides. In the last 3 years due to multiple economic and health-related issues for the public, manpower and in-person training have been lacking. Thanks to BSAT we have bridged that gap by providing consistent training to spot phishing, ransomware, and multiple other threats. Continuing to help our staff both in the office and remote became very time-intensive due to varying schedules. Now users can work in the training during their workweek, and within their own schedules ensuring both personal and organizational protection.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the training to create awareness among our users. We have about 300 users who go through the training on a regular basis. We did notice an increase in awareness. We receive much more feedback about suspicious emails, pop-up messages, notifications on websites, etc. The training definitely helped to increase people's alertness.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to send out monthly security checks to our employees to keep the awareness of spam, phishing, and impersonation email attempts. The Barracuda Security Suite does a lot of the heavy lifting to prevent phishing emails pass.-through, but it's nice to keep employees on their toes. If something does get passed to an employee during the Barracuda phishing test, the follow-up awareness training is extremely helpful
Justin Graves | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a HIPAA compliant organization, to comply, we must employ security awareness training for our users. Barracuda Security Awareness Training solves the compliance problem while simultaneously educating our users about keeping our users, devices, and infrastructure safe. Security awareness training offers more than just HIPAA-focused training as well. We are able to use Barracuda Security Awareness Training to target users, managers, and C Level users with different training types.
Sabrina Salzano | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
We are a cybersecurity company and we all think that we know everything regarding this topic. But what best than to have regular training and simulation? It's a great reminder with tips to apply in our professional and personal lives. Taking the time to analyze an email before clicking can avoid many disasters. Despite all the IT security tools, employees are still the biggest weakness. Barracuda's training is short and available in many languages. No more excuses for delaying the training!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our main purpose for using Phishline was to reduce the amount of times our users accept and open Phishing emails. Emails from Support and executives were not cutting it. Phishline helped us identify problem users and to provide training to them directly. It has helped us immensely!
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