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KnowBe4 Compliance Plus

Score8.7 out of 10

108 Reviews and Ratings

What is KnowBe4 Compliance Plus?

KnowBe4's Compliance Plus training combines interactive real-life simulated scenarios to help teach users how to respond in a challenging situation. The content addresses difficult and sometimes chaotic topics like sexual harassment, diversity and inclusion, discrimination, and business ethics. Compliance Plus includes various types of media formats and reinforcement materials to support an organization's compliance training program.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

the Compliance Plus library, which includes content from multiple training publishers and comes with various types of media formats.
the Compliance Plus training module, which is accessible through the ModStore.

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Top Performing Features

  • Progress tracking & certifications

    The system tracks individuals’ progress on courses, scores, transcripts, certificates, etc.

    Category average: 9.1

  • Learning reporting & analytics

    Provides insights into course completion, engagement with learning content, etc.

    Category average: 9

  • Structured Learning

    The content is provided in a structured way that builds upon itself as users progress through the material.

    Category average: 9.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Course catalog or library

    Learning content is organized into a course catalog or browsable library.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Course authoring

    Users can develop and assemble online learning content.

    Category average: 8

  • Social learning

    Includes features for collaboration and knowledge sharing among peers.

    Category average: 7.7

KnowBe4 Compliance Plus

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Since we deal with Federal and State government we need to be as compliant as possible. KnowBe4 Compliance Plus helps us to train employees to spot phishing emails along with insider threats, and PCI compliance. With KnowBe4 Compliance Plus we actively test and train users as to minimize our cyber risk. I also believe our cyber insurance company appreciates that we utilize KnowBe4 Compliance Plus to help minimize risk.

Pros

  • Interesting content
  • Easy to use dashboard
  • Record keeping for user failures is very usefull
  • Being able to split employees into different groups for different trainings

Cons

  • Maybe adjust your pricing structure so not everything is an add on
  • Another Season of Man on the Inside
  • Availability to download some trainings so that we can add them to our Payroll portal.

Return on Investment

  • As far as we can tell we have not had a breach since using KnowBe4 Compliance Plus
  • End user Client devices have not become infected since starting with KnowBe4 Compliance Plus.
  • Users have appreciated the knowledge that they have received and taken into their personal computing life

Usability

Other Software Used

Coro Cybersecurity, Clearnetwork Managed Detection and Response, CrowdStrike Falcon

KnowBe4 Compliance Plus

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the KnowBe4 Compliance Plus tool to train and make aware of critical issues our team members on Harassment issues in the workplace. Some business pain points were to get a tool to support the Human Resource team to plan and assign harassment training modules to team members with a little team and this tool has helped greatly.

Pros

  • Training models/Content
  • Content style highly preferred to others
  • Pricing part of the full stack of other tools
  • Easy set up/integration

Cons

  • Full package for other tools signed up for
  • Pricing bargains
  • More training content area expansion

Return on Investment

  • Supports team size
  • Saves time
  • Integration saves us some money
  • Less IT responsibilities on the same tool

Usability

Other Software Used

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training

Centralized Compliance Related Training and Content.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this tool to show compliance with internal and regulatory requirements. We use it across different subsidiaries. We have various regulatory and compliance requirements and we need a centralized platform where we can prove training/awareness and adherence to those requirements.

Pros

  • Providing default training/awareness modules that can be customized.
  • Tracking user compliance to various legislative and industry standards and regulations.
  • Wide range of content in different formats and delivery methods.

Cons

  • The modules are not region or country specific.
  • The content tends to be generic.
  • Lack Content that is highly customizable and AI integrated.

Return on Investment

  • Ability to show auditors the effectiveness of some initiatives.
  • External stakeholder confidence on compliance issues.
  • Saving money from using different platforms.

Usability

Compliance Plus is ez mode

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use KnowBe4 Compliance Plus as a complement to our security training. It replaced a substantially more expensive but inferior product.

Pros

  • Excellent production value.
  • Always updating the course catalog.
  • Adding new topics regularly.

Cons

  • Subtitles don't seem to work on customer-uploaded SCORM.
  • Easier distribution of PDFs within the LMS.
  • More customization on hiding individual pages of training.

Return on Investment

  • Saved over $5k annually.

Usability

Phishing test train improvise and defend threats - Keep learning

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a Saas company we wanted to have phishing test and Compliance training as part of our continuous improvement.

Pros

  • Specific to region
  • various modules for different needs
  • Updated training module including AI, cyber security

Cons

  • Suggest security tools
  • sometime KnowBe4 Compliance Plus emails get filtered as spam
  • We can enhance web interface
  • Search tools specific to region

Return on Investment

  • Users get trained
  • latest updates on cyber secuirty
  • helps us to implement security controls

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Rippling and Coro Cybersecurity

Other Software Used

CyberGRX, Rippling