Barracuda Security Awareness TrainingFormerly Barracuda Phishline
Overview
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…
We know the potential phishing victims and are able to train them.
Reinforced awareness
Feature rich security awareness platform with deep email security integration
Barracuda Security Awareness Training offers peace of mind
Barracuda Security Awareness Training Review
Catch a Phishline!
A solid platform with great tools, slightly let down by a clunky UX
Full featured and ready to use phishing simulation platform
No-nonsense platform for training and phishing simulation
Train the human firewall with this product included in your Total Email Protection
Awareness will make a difference
Lowered security risks due to awareness
Good Email Security Suite for users of Office 365
Easy and Manageable Cyber Security Training
Barracuda Phishline is cool
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Popular Features
- Phishing Simulations (38)7.474%
- Security Reporting (39)7.373%
- Training Content Library (39)7.171%
- Training Gamification (34)6.868%
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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.
- 7Single sign-on capability(30) Ratings
The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.
- 7.3Role-based user permissions(31) Ratings
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Security Awareness Training
Common features of security awareness training products.
- 7.1Training Content Library(39) Ratings
A pre-built library of security awareness training content that can be used immediately.
- 6.7Multilingual Training Content(22) Ratings
Training content is available in multiple languages.
- 6.8Training Gamification(34) Ratings
Training content is available in a gamified format.
- 6.5Industry-Specific Security Training(34) Ratings
Security training can be tailored based on industry-specific requirements, such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, etc.
- 6.9Individualized Security Training Plans(32) Ratings
Training can be tailored to individual employees based on previous training, role, or assessed vulnerability.
- 7.4Phishing Simulations(38) Ratings
Administrators can run simulated phishing attacks to test the effectiveness of the training and assess vulnerabilities.
- 7.3Security Reporting(39) Ratings
Reports available may include statistics on phishing simulations, training completion, etc.
- 7Integration with Security Tech Stack(28) Ratings
The product integrates with other security tools, such as a SIEM or SOAR platform, and may provide alerts for potential breaches.
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What is Barracuda Security Awareness Training?
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
- KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
- Infosec IQ
- Defence Works
Barracuda Security Awareness Training Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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Community Insights
- Business Problems Solved
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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(1-25 of 34)- It fits directly in the line of email security products.
- You get a community and good documentation.
- New templates arrive weekly.
- It is available in multiple languages, also dutch.
- The administrator interface is complex.
- [In my experience] The first campaign will fail because the start is too complex. It lacks a guided wizard.
Barracuda PhishLine compared to the competition? There might be room for improvement especially to get you started. But the concept of phishing your users and making them aware of the dangers is a must-have. No matter what product you use.
Reinforced awareness
- Campaigning
- Platform
- Library
- Responsiveness
- Languages
- Customization is not easy
- Training implementation
- Custom templates
- Default libraries
- Responsiveness
- User interface
- Customizing campaigns
Catch a Phishline!
- Great library of examples.
- Great library of training materials.
- Very powerful and customizable.
- Superb way of providing stats and details on our campaigns.
- Make the interface less confusing. It's almost too powerful which leads to confusion.
- USB key attack testing
- Training and reporting
- SMS attack testing
- The interface is very dated and cumbersome
- Setup was not as simple as it should have been
- Some of the training that is supplied has a thick American accent which puts users off
- The software helps us create emails that look exactly or almost exactly the same as the phishing emails we found in our email gateway.
- We already use the ESS gateway from Barracuda Networks, and in the TEP bundle, this software is included, so it's not that much work to also configure this.
- In the software, we can see reports on how our users performed. We can make a selection of users that are more prone to click on "false" links, and this way, we can help them individually.
- The software is rather difficult to work with. Lots of options are a little bit "hidden" and are difficult to find.
- Lots of URLs are blacklisted sometimes. We are kept in the loop but changing to other URLs that are not blacklisted is very resource-intensive.
- I feel that the architecture of the software is a little bit old.
- We can create our own campaigns using mails that are regularly received
- We can add our internal resources as landing pages
- We can send out video material to train our staff
- As a non IT-er, it is not always simple to use the interface
- Sometimes it is not very fast
- Sending out mails to large databases feels tricky
- Easy to create address books
- Templates are already available in the library
- Training campaigns are easy to send out
- Not always a very fast interface
- Sometimes difficult to find the right menus
- Administration interface is quite difficult
Awareness will make a difference
- Reporting
- Scenario's
- Not only email phishing
- Customization is not easily coded
- Responsivess
- Interface
Lowered security risks due to awareness
- Campaigns
- Library
- Training
- Responsiveness
- Language support
- Templating
Good Email Security Suite for users of Office 365
- Allows customised emails messages
- Allows meaning result analysis
- Provides a useful deployment mechanism
- Allows control over the process so that we can target specific teams
- Provide a more diverse range of templates
Easy and Manageable Cyber Security Training
- Up to date cyber security information in user level language
- Automation of the program
- Statistical information
- Setting up the Campaigns - it is clunky
- The schedule automation is clunky
Enterprise product for small-to-medium businesses
- Easy to use interface for Administrators to build training campaigns and deliver them within scheduled timetables.
- Ease of use in connecting to organizational Active Directory for address book builds and refresh.
- Everyday users understand the training provided, and the short time for delivery (typically less than 5 minutes) for completion helps users to fit it into tight schedules.
- Providing animated templates for custom campaigns would be helpful, potentially a "builder site" where templates could be put together with custom questions/answers.
- Reporting through functional could use some work. We typically create phishing tests to help our users learn how to spot concerns, and the reports do not provide who actually "reported" the phish as opposed to who did not. This has been a year-long request to Barracuda, and the same issue is present in our campaigns as well.
- We would love to see an annual release of new training topics and campaign ideas.
Phishing Protection
- Impersonation examples
- preventing clicks on malicious links
- social engineering attacks
- none
Barracuda Security Awareness Training works!
- Describes the security threat well
- Communicates the content in an easy to understand way
- Offers a variety of trainings
- The #1 feedback I receive from users is that they have limited time for training. It would be nice if the training would be offered in 3-time categories (e.g. up to 3 minutes, up to 5 minutes and up to 10 minutes). This way user's can select a category that matches their availability.
Awareness training in a suite that you need.
- Simulated email threats that can be customized to meet your needs
- Follow-up awareness training for the employees
- Overview details of the campaign, user Behavior and customizable reports
- More templates and more non-suspicious email addresses to Launch campaigns
- Managing Campaigns
- Great repository of KBs
- Different languages
- Different forms of campaigns, flyers, attachments, etc
- Easier flow for creating campaigns
- Easier way to use attachment manager
Security Awareness Training for Everyone.
- Training
- Console management.
- Targeted training.
- Compliance needs.
- More material.
- Better targeting.
- Testing
- Extensive library
- Training possibilities
- Customizing
- Sometimes difficult to customize (CSS)
- Difficult to manage multiple campaigns
- Not always very responsive
Best Cyber Awareness Solution
- Barracuda Phishline was very helpful in identifying the problem areas in our staff
- Reporting help raise managements awareness
- Easily monitor the individual user behaviour and access any security risks
- Navigation of the application could be greatly improved upon
- Setup documentation to be lacking
- Technical support is helpful but I would like to be able to do more without contacting them
A useful tool
- The reports are great.
- Helps identify which users need security training
- Initiating a campaign is a quick process
- I find the templates are not easy to use or modify I am not skilled in HTML. They are also outdated and hard to search through
- the user interface is very old fashioned could use a facelift and simplification
- Configuring the campaign is complicated and should be easier to reuse
Great security awareness platform
We ourselves use it internally as we also implement it at our partners. Pishline has a good library of resources available and also we use self-made templates to correspond better to the user environment.
- Custom templating
- Wide library available by default
- Training implementation
- Amount of domains available
- Templating can be tricky
- Landing pages
- Responsiveness of the user interface
Legacy product trying to stay relevant
- 365 Address Sync option
- Ability to have content groups
- Many different landing pages
- Entire interface needs an overhaul
- More Wizards needed
- Ability to set up automated monthly testing
Not suited to smaller IT teams as it requires too much investment to learn the product, not enough training content is available to learn from. No automated campaigns.
- Large library of existing templates.
- Lots of options to finetune delivery of emails.
- Designed for large amount of end users.
- Not very intuitive.
- Not easy to make own landing page designs.
- Not so responsive sometimes.
Realistic phishing simulations and bespoke user training
- Analytics and reporting.
- Individually-tailored user training.
- Realistic phishing simulations.
- Can take a while to set up and launch a campaign compared to the competition.