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Hoxhunt

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What is Hoxhunt?

Hoxhunt, headquartered in Helsinki, empowers employees to shield their organisations with adaptive learning flows that transform how employees react and respond to the growing amount of phishing emails.

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HoxHunt!!!!!!!

10 out of 10
May 05, 2023
Incentivized
HoxHunt was something I was confused by at first. But now after using it, I think its a WONDERFUL idea to implement this into your …
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Hoxi

7 out of 10
July 21, 2022
Run simulations and work with awareness training with less effort through automation. Increase resilience against social engineering and …
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Popular Features

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  • Phishing Simulations (23)
    9.1
    91%
  • Training Gamification (23)
    9.0
    90%
  • Training Content Library (20)
    9.0
    90%
  • Industry-Specific Security Training (20)
    8.8
    88%

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Verified User
Employee in Sales
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees
Nidhi Girdhar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nidhi Girdhar
Process Associate
LPS Bossard India pvt ltd (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 201-500 employees)
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What is Hoxhunt?

Hoxhunt, headquartered in Helsinki, empowers employees to shield their organisations with adaptive learning flows that transform how employees react and respond to the growing amount of phishing emails.

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Product Details

What is Hoxhunt?

Hoxhunt's Gamified Phishing Training solution is provided by the vendor, as including the following features & advantages:

  • Content - The relevant content will make employees wonder whether they received a Hoxhunt simulation or an actual threat. It will keep them alert at all times.
  • Frequent simulations - Frequency in training is a must in order to have a real impact on a person’s learning and behavior. The service includes sending users multiple simulations per month.
  • Microtraining - After reporting a Hoxhunt simulation, users will get a few tips to help them to recognize malicious emails in the future.
  • Personalization - The personalized training automatically matches the skill, level, role, or department of the user for an engaging and realistic experience.
  • Gamified - Gamification makes the training more rewarding for the employees. It’s exciting and fun so that employees want to participate.
  • Localization - Currently, it supports 20+ languages so that users can also have culturally relevant training.

Hoxhunt Technical Details

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Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Hoxhunt, headquartered in Helsinki, empowers employees to shield their organisations with adaptive learning flows that transform how employees react and respond to the growing amount of phishing emails.

Reviewers rate Security Reporting highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of Hoxhunt are from Enterprises (1,001+ 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!

HoxHunt has proven to be a valuable tool in maintaining knowledge about common threats used by hackers to obtain sensitive information or access devices. Users have found the tool helpful in identifying potential weak links in cybersecurity through email testing. The software offers a variety of exercises, such as phishing and spam email simulations, which motivate users with monthly goals and badges. By competing with others in the organization and tracking their progress with milestones, employees are encouraged to improve their cybersecurity skills. HoxHunt's frequent email tests simulate various hacking attacks while providing tips to identify and prevent future attacks, making it an entertaining form of training that increases security in email networks.

One of the key use cases for HoxHunt is training employees to recognize and report phishing attempts. By using the software, organizations have successfully reduced the chances of falling victim to malicious emails. The gamified learning process offered by HoxHunt, including features like a dashboard, achievements, and rankings, has been effective in motivating users to actively participate and improve their cybersecurity awareness. With its comprehensive coverage of different online threats such as phishing and spamming, HoxHunt helps users avoid falling for these tactics by analyzing sender information, links, and misspellings. Additionally, HoxHunt is widely used for company-wide training to mitigate malware, phishing, and other cyber attacks commonly propagated through targeted emails.

Engaging and Informative Platform: Many users have found Hoxhunt's platform to be engaging and informative. They appreciate how it presents trending security tips with graphic and friendly examples, enhancing their understanding of potential threats.

Gamification Aspect: Several reviewers mention that they enjoy the gamification aspect of Hoxhunt's platform. It makes participation fun and develops personal competitiveness through goals and achievements, motivating users to actively engage in improving their cybersecurity skills.

Clear and Intuitive User Interface: Users consistently praise Hoxhunt for its clear, intuitive, and easy-to-use user interface. They find it unobtrusive on the desktop, allowing them to seamlessly navigate the platform without any frustration or confusion.

Cons:

  1. Lack of Feedback on Missed Opportunities: Some users have expressed a desire for more feedback on why they missed opportunities and what they missed, particularly when it comes to emails that may have gone to spam. They feel that having this information would help them improve their email security skills.
  2. Unclear Points or Stars System: Several reviewers have mentioned that the points or stars system used in the training sessions is unclear at times, making it easy to miss important emails or ignore them. They suggest that a clearer explanation of how the scoring works would be beneficial.
  3. Limited Real-Life Examples in Training: Users have suggested including more realistic examples of different types of phishing attempts in the training sessions, such as job offer scams, charity scams, and coronavirus scams. They believe that exposing employees to a wider range of real-world scenarios would enhance their ability to identify and respond to potential threats.

Users highly recommend Hoxhunt for its effectiveness in preventing cyber security threats, specifically in regard to phishing mail. They consider it a valuable tool that raises awareness about security issues and equips users with practical skills to spot malicious emails. Users appreciate how Hoxhunt helps them understand the dangers of malicious emails and safeguard sensitive information. They encourage others to explore the usefulness of Hoxhunt and view it as a worthwhile investment for enhancing overall security practices within an organization.

Reviews

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January 13, 2024

Strengthening cybersecurity awareness with Hoxhunt

Nidhi Girdhar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Nidhi Girdhar
Process Associate
LPS Bossard India pvt ltd (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 201-500 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
1. Limited IT resources - If an organization has limited It resources & struggle to manage additional cybersecurity tools, implementing Hoxhunt might be challenging. It requires some administration & oversight to be effective.
2. Highly technical user base/Where high security risks are there - Hoxhunt training content is too basic against high level of phishing attacks, its more detailed for general audience rather than for the people with high technical expertise.
May 16, 2023

Hoxhunt Success use case for a Global company

Aaron Barajas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Aaron Barajas
Customer Journey Analyst
NXP Semiconductors (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Hoxhunt has the right strategy to make the users stop and think twice about what they are reading or clicking. Taking the user to the point of double-checking on every single unexpected message, and creating a safer scenario for any company.
May 05, 2023

HoxHunt!!!!!!!

Verified User
Account Manager in Marketing
Computer Software Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think it would be suited for anyone , in business and personal. I would like to use this in my personal email as well. Sometimes I just click the HoxHunt button just to make sure the email i'm about to open is legit. and 9/10 its not.
May 02, 2023

Scammed or not scammed

Sundram Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sundram Singh
Digital Design
Chitkara University (Semiconductors, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is best suited for scams related to organization work or organization data hacks because a person mostly gets scammed in these. Whenever we see mail that has data or something related to organizational work or has an organization name, then most people click on the link because mostly we ignore looking that the mail came from a valid organizational Id. It is worst suited for banks related scams.
April 28, 2023

Hoxhunt to learn

SG
Subhasb Gehlot
Asst Manager Digital Business
Schindler India Pvt Ltd (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Any organization that want to teach employees about various types of hacking methods that hacker use and also identify the weak links amongst employees can actually use the software. I recommend every organization to use this software. It would really help people gain realistic experience and they can compete to be best amongst the other team mates
April 28, 2023

Hoxhunt does a great job at keeping me vigilant!

Verified User
Strategist in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited in my opinion for anyone who is in a position where they may need to practice their ability to understand when an email may be spam, as well as what they should do in terms of protecting themselves when those situations arise. It is less appropriate for users who are more or less security experts and have ample experience with phishing attacks or other email scams.
April 27, 2023

Hunt the security threats

Verified User
Manager in Engineering
Design Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Hoxhunt is a great way to learn probable security threats that you may receive via emails. It has easy to use interface and the variety of simulation emails it has is really good. By giving milestone rating on detecting specific number of emails , it keeps you motivated to be vigilant and report any probable threat.
April 26, 2023

May the hox be with you.

MR
Mark Rath
Bmet2
Trimedx (Biotechnology, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I have made it to platinum and going. I honestly believe this is a wonderful tool to keep a person's interest. Everyone gets a lot of email but having done this for a couple of years it makes a person think twice and check key points in the address as well as the body.
July 22, 2022

A clever and fun way to teach Internet Security to your employees.

Verified User
Manager in Sales
Construction Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Hoxhunt is very useful in any business which uses data. Sales are the biggest part of our business and losing our customer data would give us a big blow from our competitors. The fact that Hoxhunt is always testing users has made our users more security savvy or even more cautious about how they handle incoming suspicious content. We now have more people raising their hands on questionable emails even if Hoxhunt does not send them.
July 22, 2022

Does the trick!

Brenda Cash | TrustRadius Reviewer
Brenda Cash
Credit Manager
IGT (Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
With our industry having many regulations, this is an excellent tool to help us be more aware of the risks of emails causing security breaches in our IT areas within the company. With so many of us working remotely part of the time, it is especially useful.
July 22, 2022

Great tool for learning about phishing

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is suitable for companies as a whole, as it helps to prevent users from clicking on malicious emails, thus preventing an attack that puts the company at risk of security and can leak sensitive information. It is ideal in scenarios where we have sensitive data to protect, where you cannot be careless with emails, you always need to pay attention and analyze before making a decision to click or not on any email link. For example, checking if an email is known, if it is reliable, if there are any suspicious links, and if the email has a certain urgency to click on the links, are some of the precautions that you can learn from Hoxhunt Gamified Phishing Training. In my experience of use, I don't see it being indicated for purposes other than learning about phishing, as far as I'm aware this is Hoxhunt's strong point.
July 21, 2022

Hoxi

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
Email is your biggest risk. It should be your top priority. Attacks target people. Solutions must be designed for people, too. Fully Managed Service. Employees Love Us. Gamified Training. Hoxhunt Gamified Phishing training rewards people with gold stars for success and gives micro training after failing to build skills along a gamified learning journey. they need to improve on Simulated phishing or a phishing test is where deceptive emails, similar to malicious emails, are sent by an organization to their own staff to gauge their response to phishing and similar email attacks.
July 08, 2022

An excellent training to engage your employees to fight email phishing using a gamified approach

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Hoxhunt Gamified Phishing Training is an absolute must in IT and ITES organizations, Customer support organizations, Call centers, etc which make extensive use of emails for communication and where external emails are freely allowed in the employee inboxes.
July 08, 2022

Hoxhunt is a best way to learn and identify Phishing and Spam attacks at both workplace and personal.

Durgam Rajesh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Durgam Rajesh
SQA
IGT (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Hoxhunt helps to find real potential attacks very easily with the simulated attacks or training. The provision of marking the emails and the detailed analysis reports. A detailed summary of links the user clicked or the summary of malicious files opened. I've clicked some of the URLs which look like the original sender, but Hoxhunt taught me how to find them better in the future.
July 08, 2022

Hoxhunt Gamified Phishing Training keeps me on my toes!

Verified User
Consultant in Engineering
Civil Engineering Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
This is appropriate for any position that uses email (this is almost every position, these days). All employees with email access are attack vectors for malicious actors; keeping them informed and vigilant is of paramount importance. It may be less appropriate for completely closed (i.e. air-gapped) systems separated from the wider internet.
July 08, 2022

Hoxhunt is Leading the Pack

Deen Ferrell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Deen Ferrell
Senior Client Relations Manager
Galileo Financial Technologies (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I come from an IT Management background, and I remember speaking to a CFO who had been hit by a scam to steal employee W2 information. He told me, "You can spend millions of dollars on security, but in the end, it comes down to does your individual employee click on that button." I think Hoxhunt is a brilliant way to make employees wary of clicking anything in an email without studying the email first, and with the randomness of its emails, it does a good job of keeping security front of mind. Some groups may even want to up the ante and give a prize or reward to the employee with the highest number of tokens in a quarter. I think this is a far more hands-on, day-to-day security training module than I have seen. It also is easy to use, takes up little time out of your day, and is unobtrusive on your desktop. While I find Ninjio innovative and effective in overall security training, Hoxhunt gets my nod for the most effective email security product I have used to date.
July 08, 2022

Hoxhunt - Keeping the Phish at bay

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Hoxhunt is great at bringing up organizational awareness and competency. It adapts to the proficiency of the user so it is not a static solution that only low-level users would need. Given the size of our company, it provides a tremendous benefit to reduce the overall risk of phishing attempts.
July 08, 2022

Hoxhunt is a solid phishing training program

Tyler Christensen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tyler Christensen
Systems Administrator
Galileo Financial Technologies (Financial Services, 501-1000 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Every business faces online attacks; attackers don't care who you are and will take whatever they can get. However, businesses that deal with a lot of confidential customer information like the Healthcare or Finance industries will find they are more targeted than some other businesses might be, just because attackers know that if they can get their hands on protected information, they can either perpetuate identity fraud or sell the information for a lot of money to someone who will use it for identity fraud. Hoxhunt is useful to help train all employees to recognize when a phishing attempt is being made. It may make them begin over-reporting innocent mail, but in my opinion, it is better to overreport than it is to let a single phishing attempt succeed.
July 08, 2022

Hoxhunt, the game you didn't know your company needed

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Hoxhunt is well suited for companies that may have sensitive information that they want to protect. In this case, Hoxhunt will make the employees well suited to be able to spot any malicious attempts to gather information from them or the company. Companies that don't have much sensitive information and aren't worried about information leaking outside of the company may not find Hoxhunt to be of much help.
July 08, 2022

great work by Hoxhunt phishing training

Verified User
Manager in Product Management
Telecommunications Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Hoxhunt Gamified Phishing training is very helpful in identifying real phishing emails as emails look very close to your work-related activities and have a real logo of the company. Email-id is also very similar to your official email ids and the subject of the email is very attractive that you will not think too much before clicking, also it provides feedback when you identify such emails so that you will be well prepared.
July 07, 2022

Interactive and informative tool!

Arianna Bottome | TrustRadius Reviewer
Arianna Bottome
Sustainability Consultant
Ramboll Management Consulting (Environmental Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I think it's well suited for most demographics but especially people with less knowledge regarding phishing or spam, including the distinction between both and how to spot it. It's been particularly helpful as a young person who can easily identify it but pays less attention to taking it seriously and would usually just disregard the message. I think for people working within tech or IT, it might be less relevant given their jobs might be closely tied to topics like this, meaning they would have a clearer understanding of how to handle such situations.
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