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Overview

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 has proven to be a valuable tool in maintaining knowledge about common threats used by hackers to obtain sensitive information or …
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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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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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Features

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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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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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Aaron Barajas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Presents trending security tips for the user to avoid the leak of information or device infections
  • Motivates the progress in the user's learning path through success badges
  • Uses graphic and friendly examples for a better and easier understanding of possible threats
  • It may have a shortcut to the user's personal dashboard to be able to see the progress on the learning path
  • Some of the messages are already marked as dangerous by our internal service detection and might never make it to appear in my inbox, so you might miss the hit.
May 05, 2023

HoxHunt!!!!!!!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • teaches you different types of email's that could compromise your business
  • teaches you to be aware of certain wording on emails
  • it would be cool to give out prizes for certain levels or badges
Sundram Singh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • I got a mail from Hoxhunt that my GitHub account password has been changed and that someone is trying to access my account. If I have clicked on that link then might be all the data from my laptop must have been stolen or my system might have been hacked.
  • I got a mail from an anonymous that due to the hybrid model, I have to give my seat to someone else. Then this can disturb me for a longer period of time, till the time I reach the company and discuss it with the concerned authority
  • One day I got a mail from workday that there are some personal data I have to upload, but what can go wrong, in this case, will be I didn't check the mail id of the sender and just because I used to the mail from workday, I might have clicked on the link.
  • job offer scam
  • charity scam
  • corona scam
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Create tricky spam mails
  • Motivates me to try to be vigilant with my security practices
  • Teaches me about various tactics used by scammers and how to avoid them
  • The ability to change the frequency might be useful
  • Other types of real world tests outside of just spam mail
  • The ability to dig deeper into content around security
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Good examples of training emails simulating the threat
  • Easy to report interface
  • Good representation of progress made
  • sometimes it is easy to detect a training email as a threat
  • It should also report the training mails that
  • were missed by the employee and
  • not reported as threat
July 22, 2022

Does the trick!

Brenda Cash | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Disguises emails like someone from within the organization.
  • Does a good job of making an email seem urgent.
  • Does a good job of appealing to the emotions, to attract someone to open an attachment.
  • Seems to pick up on recent topics that you had emailed about, and tries to imitate something in that topic.
  • When I look at my dashboard, it says I missed opportunities, and I would like to know more about what I missed and why (did it just go to my spam so I never bothered to look at it or what?)
  • I'd like more feedback on Spam - why do so many people send spam for one, like it isn't obvious it is spam?
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Helps understand phishing email
  • Interactive learning, facilitating understanding
  • Score ranking that helps to engage
  • Shows common errors in phishing emails
  • Constant learning about how to protect yourself virtually
  • The score could be more transparent, as there are people with more stars and I don't know why, as I correctly reported the phishing
  • Have other ways to get stars other than just reporting email
  • Have a user score comparison tool
July 21, 2022

Hoxi

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Giving links
  • Giving examples of threats
  • If a link is clicked then it provide training regarding the problem and issues.
  • Brute force
  • Algorithm
  • Types of attacks
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Making us aware of different types of phishing practices.
  • Making the training fun by the use of gamification, badges, leaderboards, and the whole shebang.
  • The levels become more difficult so that in the later stage the emails for training are very cleverly disguised as normal messages thus forcing you to be more careful and increasing your attention to detail to spot the signs of malware or phishing in the emails.
  • Expand the training target to other communication channels like Microsoft Teams.
  • include video resources for learning about cybersecurity.
Durgam Rajesh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Simulates the Phishing, spam attack emails.
  • Provides details about the attack if user clicks on a link or opens a file.
  • Rewards the users who finds more simulated attacks.
  • Has a provision to mark spam email, and Hoxhunt performs a thorough analysis and sends reports on completion.
  • To find malicious URLs with slight change in URL like a with à.
Deen Ferrell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Their emails are sometimes very hard to spot, so has caused me to be a lot more cautious.
  • The gamification piece makes participation fun.
  • The system is easy to use and unobtrusive on the desktop.
  • While the "Good Job!" verbiage and tokens given are fine, other apps I use to make a bit more fanfare with a correct choice. I May consider sprucing that up a bit.
  • While the program has made me more cautious with emails, I have sometimes thought that it would be nice to have more real-life examples of the consequences of various types of emails being clicked on.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • It crafts realistic phishing attempts.
  • It adapts to the skill of the user to make it harder as necessary.
  • It provides educational information after an attempt is made (successful or not).
  • I don't have access to the management console but it would be nice to see a success metrics.
Tyler Christensen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Providing realistic attack examples to train employees on.
  • Incentivizing employees to recognize and report mail that isn't legitimate.
  • Providing training for employees that walks them through how to detect illegitimate emails.
  • I haven't seen much that I would improve on.
  • I think the product is solid and I like the features it has.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Creates realistic phishing attempts.
  • Once you spot a phishing attempt, it breaks everything down to show you exactly what to look for.
  • Gives rewards and tracks points for each successful attempt that you identify.
  • It seems some users receive more phishing attempts which leads to them getting more points than others.
  • Some of the phishing attempts can be pretty easy to spot.
Arianna Bottome | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Engaging
  • Develops personal competitiveness with goals and achievements
  • Clear, intuitive and easy to use
  • Informative
  • Sometimes points/stars are unclear.
  • Easy to miss some emails and simply ignore/erase them when they are TOO similar to the real thing, and something very commonly used such as "People are looking at your profile on LinkedIn".
  • Looking at leader boards within your own specific team so that it's more fun to compare.
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