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Cofense LMS

Score8.7 out of 10

5 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cofense LMS?

Cofense’s Learning Management System™ (LMS) helps raise employees’ cybersecurity awareness and enhances their ability to detect phishing threats. With LMS, the user can zero in on the security and compliance issues that are important to a company. And LMS complements the behavioral conditioning and experiential learning of Cofense's awareness simulation program, Cofense PhishMe™.

Top Performing Features

  • Learning administration

    Administrators can manage the content and people (students/employees, course authors, instructors, etc.) on the platform.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Gamification

    Presents course material in a game-like format to increase engagement and enjoyment.

    Category average: 6.8

  • Learning content

    The vendor offers high quality pre-made courses or assets. These may be specific to certain industries or technologies.

    Category average: 7.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Player/Portal

    Students or employees can engage with content and take courses using this interface, which may be called a player or portal.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Course authoring

    Users can develop and assemble online learning content.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Mobile friendly

    Students or employees can access content from mobile devices. Course authors can develop responsive learning content.

    Category average: 7.6

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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were looking for solution to educate of employee about phishing mail, as email is 1 one threat vector & phishing mail is one of major contributor for same and it was also compliance requirement of client. Business email compromise has huge economic impact even causing huge business loss for companies.

Pros

  • Training modules: developed Using Learning Science Principles
  • Story Based Environment
  • Learn by doing

Cons

  • Cofense LMS need to support multi-lingual model
  • Reporting part need to improved.

Most Important Features

  • Key Feature Set: Threat Simulations, Training Modules
  • Powered by Cofense Threat Intelligence
  • Award Winning Security Awareness platform

Return on Investment

  • Cofense LMS: Real attack from the wild
  • Phishing Simulation
  • Support & documentation is also available

Alternatives Considered

MetaCompliance

Cofense LMS: The one stop solution for all training to your corporate Ecosystem!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cofense LMS was received as a bundled package to us as a part of the entire phishing suite to the corporation. The major case LMS was able to resolve for us was the trainings for Mail and other security awareness that we need to assign to different business verticals post our phishing campaigns.

Pros

  • Assigning comprehensive trainings from a wide list of options available
  • Segregating the different vertical groups in the business and assigning them the relevant training
  • Tracking the completion status of user training and Quizzes

Cons

  • UI can be more interactive
  • Segregating the users in different groups can be further automated via AD details
  • The end user mobile notification feature should be there rather than only mail.

Most Important Features

  • Customized Trainings and videos
  • Dedicated trainings for different verticals
  • Checking the progress for completion of learning

Return on Investment

  • Trainings made user more aware of the security attacks they are vulnerable to
  • Strengthened the overall security posture of the company
  • Detterent control as incase the the personnel are not able to finish off their training, it is followed by HR action.

Alternatives Considered

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training

Other Software Used

NETSCOUT Arbor DDoS Protection, Attivo Endpoint Detection Net (EDN), FortiSOAR