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KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus

Overview

What is KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

PhishER is presented as a lightweight Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) platform to orchestrate threat response and manage the high volume of potentially malicious email messages reported by users. And, with automatic prioritization of emails, PhishER helps InfoSec and…

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Phishing Hero!

10 out of 10
March 13, 2024
Incentivized
We use KnowBe4 PhishER with our KMSAT. KnowBe4 PhishER is basically helping us to resolve our biggest security problem and that is …
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  • Company-wide Incident Reporting (52)
    7.8
    78%
  • Live Response for Rapid Remediation (55)
    7.8
    78%
  • Centralized Dashboard (62)
    7.8
    78%
  • Machine Learning to Prevent Incidents (54)
    7.7
    77%

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Pricing

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$0.55

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1001-2000 Monthly Pricing Per Seat

$0.65

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Incident Response Platforms

Incident response (IR) platforms guide countermeasures against a security breach and deploy preplanned, automated threat responses

7.6
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Product Details

What is KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

PhishER is a platform for managing the high volume of potentially malicious email messages reported by users. With automatic prioritization of emails, PhishER aims to help InfoSec and Security Operations team cut through the inbox noise and respond to the most dangerous threats more quickly.

PhishER is a web-based platform with critical worksteam functionality that serves as a phishing emergency room to identify and respond to user-reported messages. With PhishER, users are able to automate the workstream of 90% of reported emails that are not threats, freeing up incident response resources.

PhishER is available as a stand-alone product or as an optional add-on for KnowBe4 customers that want to automatically prioritize and manage potentially malicious messages that were reported through the KnowBe4 Phish Alert Button. PhishER Plus is an upgraded subscription level that includes all of the features from PhishER with additional enhancements and AI-validated crowdsourced data. PhishER Plus was developed to help supercharge an organization’s email security defenses. It does this by automatically blocking phishing attacks that traditional Security Email Gateways (SEGs) miss and removes these missed threats from users’ inboxes.

KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus Features

Incident Response Platforms Features

  • Supported: Company-wide Incident Reporting
  • Supported: Integration with Other Security Systems
  • Supported: Centralized Dashboard
  • Supported: Machine Learning to Prevent Incidents
  • Supported: Live Response for Rapid Remediation

Additional Features

  • Supported: Automatic Message Prioritization

KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus Screenshots

Screenshot of This is a diagram of the PhishER workflow. Reviewing the PhishER workflow before getting started will provide an understanding of how PhishER, PhishRIP and PhishFlip work.Screenshot of The Reports screen will display five different dashboards of information.Screenshot of When entering the PhishER platform, the first screen that appears is the Dashboard. Here, a quick overview of the PhishER platform will appear.

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KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobal

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Frequently Asked Questions

PhishER is presented as a lightweight Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR) platform to orchestrate threat response and manage the high volume of potentially malicious email messages reported by users. And, with automatic prioritization of emails, PhishER helps InfoSec and Security Operations team cut through the inbox noise and respond to the most dangerous threats more quickly.

Cofense Triage, Infosec IQ, and Proofpoint Threat Response Auto-Pull are common alternatives for KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus.

Reviewers rate Company-wide Incident Reporting and Centralized Dashboard and Live Response for Rapid Remediation highest, with a score of 7.8.

The most common users of KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to enhance our email security with EAA. It helps to block unwanted emails that may be malicious to our organization.
  • Blocks potential malicious emails
  • Easy to use and setup
  • Improves efficiency for my staff
  • Improved metrics
  • Improved dashboard
  • Better reporting
Very well suited to help weed out potential bad actor emails. It also improves the efficiency of the team.

Getting metrics/reports/dashboarding for executives could be improved.
Incident Response Platforms (5)
74%
7.4
Company-wide Incident Reporting
80%
8.0
Integration with Other Security Systems
80%
8.0
Centralized Dashboard
50%
5.0
Machine Learning to Prevent Incidents
80%
8.0
Live Response for Rapid Remediation
80%
8.0
  • Don't have hard numbers
  • We have seen malicious emails reduced and blocked
Again, don't have hard numbers but we have seen spam/malicious emails reduced, such that my team does not have to deal with them. I would estimate between a 10-20% reduction.
We have implemented PhishER Blocklist.
Microsoft is more comprehensive but still allows some threats to get through. PhishER helps to weed out those that Defender does not block.
4
They represent IT Infrastructure, IT Security, IT Networking and IT Leadership
1
Need to have basic IT skills, knowledge of software packages, knowledge of Microsoft technology, and knowledge of email phishing.
  • Ability to secure our assests
  • Ability to identify phishing
  • Provide additional knowledge to our staff
  • Ability to improve staff knowledge and have them be able to apply to their personal lives
  • Not sure - want to ensure we leverage what we have at this time
It is a valuable tool in our ongoing cyber security strategy. KnowBe4 is a leader in this type of system and unless something else comes along not going to change
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We have a high rate of items reported via Phish ER (approximately 1000 a month) for a department of 2 people.
We setup rules in Phish Alert to respond to the most common items reported.
We have also setup rules to all the InfoSec team to focus on those emails that have not been responded to and/or actual threats.
By utilizing Phish ER we have been able to take reduce the amount of time spent addressing items report from 2 hours a day down to < 20 minutes.
Additionally with the recent update to allow us to push blocks to M365 we are seeing a large reduction in the number of spam and scam emails.
  • Minimal false positives
  • Ease of use in defining and designing flows
  • Ease of use in defining and designing response templates
  • Reporting - the reports in place are useful but allowing for more details would be helpful
  • More Quick Actions
Ease of implementation.
Time savings.
Use in identifying trends.
Incident Response Platforms (5)
94%
9.4
Company-wide Incident Reporting
80%
8.0
Integration with Other Security Systems
100%
10.0
Centralized Dashboard
90%
9.0
Machine Learning to Prevent Incidents
100%
10.0
Live Response for Rapid Remediation
100%
10.0
  • Time saved has allowed for concentration in other areas.
  • Response time to users has increased InfoSec profile in the company, making it easier to sell other initiatives. Also, this makes users more likely to report things
  • The ability to see threats in 1 area allows for better recognition of trends or large scale attacks.
The automated responses with low cases of false positives has allowed my team to focus on the actual threats and/or unknowns. This has promoted users to be more willing to report things.

We have implemented - PhishER Blocklist.
This has helped reduce the amount of spam/scams that are getting to users.Very valuable.
In looking at other products I didn't find any that were as integrated with our email process.
We did implement Tessian as an email filtering/security product but I feel PhishER provides functionality that other email security tools cannot provide.
Just right.
Easy to get up and running quickly
Turn on Phish ER but wait to setup the automation tasks until you have reviewed your data to group and rollout types of emails.

No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
None - the available features met our needs
3
Information Security
Information Technology


2
Members of the InfoSec team with experience in email security.
  • Ability to automate responses to users that report emails.
  • Reporting and classification of reported emails.
  • Integration with M365 to allow for adding emails, attachments, etc. to block list.
  • Training users on legitimate emails and proper communications.
  • Finding large scale phishing attacks.
  • Understanding and reporting on most common scams/phish being seen by users.
  • Use the data gathered to recognize frequent reporters.
  • Use data gathered to understand common domains, etc. for DMARC and SPF implementation
Phish ER has reduced the time my team and I spend on reported emails by over 80%. With the volume of emails reported and a small team this is a must have.
No
  • Integration with Other Systems
  • Ease of Use
We have made reporting emails via Phish Alert a cornerstone message in our Awareness program, so anything we implemented had to work with the Phish Alert button.
I wouldn't change anything. The evaluation was straight forward and we chose to move forward with the best product.
Responses to questions were answered quickly and accurately.
I'm not sure if we purchased a premium support option. I don't think so.
No
I've had multiple support cases opened that I not only received an answer to the problem in question but also details on best practices that improved the underlying process.
The product is easy to setup, use and maintain. The product is stable and performs as expected
  • The rules are easy to define and implement.
  • The actions provided a way to create the email flows that I wanted.
  • The templates are easy to design and allow for all the content that I wanted.
  • None
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use KnowBe4 PhishER for users to submit tickets to our helpdesk team. We have automation setup to process findings and pass the emails to the correct tech's for investigation.
  • Custom Rules for Phishing Emails
  • Custom Reports for IT and Exec
  • Integrate with other Phishing providers
  • More control on their rules or be able to script more
  • Allow to remove emails from exchange server if they are phishing emails
Allowed us to automate our phish reporting for users and to catch the emails quicker with out a lot of time reviewing emails.
Incident Response Platforms (5)
88%
8.8
Company-wide Incident Reporting
80%
8.0
Integration with Other Security Systems
80%
8.0
Centralized Dashboard
100%
10.0
Machine Learning to Prevent Incidents
90%
9.0
Live Response for Rapid Remediation
90%
9.0
  • Helped to reduce the time to respond to emails for tech's
  • allows helpdesk to work with users and not take away from Exchange Admin's
Being able to setup rules for emails that come in and deal with quickly has been a major help for us. To get the first email triage it and then take care of any of the other emails like this comes in to automate the process.
We have implemented KnowBe4 PhishER Blocklist so far and will be testing ML and Flip shortly.
Saved us time and money with reducing labor of repeated incoming emails.
KnowBe4 has a lot of features and easy to configure for admin's. Adding the report button was the toughest part because there were so many different ways to deploy it to everyone. Once we figured out the direction the company wanted to go we hit the ground running and got the buttons installed in 30 minutes.
Make sure that you know what types of products you want to install button. It makes the installations easier. PhishER is great and has help cut down time with rules that process emails that are submitted with out our admin's having to touch each email that comes in.
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
Once we had a little tour of PhishER we saw what we could do with the rules and customizations to make our lives easier. Start small and add as you go. We still need to tweak the customizations every couple of months because things change.
No - we have not done any custom code
Being able to customize some of the rules and action are great for us. Not just an out of the box piece of software that you can't fit to your business.
10
Server, Network, HelpDesk and Management use this product.
5
Users in the Server and HelpDesk teams use PhishER and need to know some basic email and filtering rules.
  • Reporting emails from Outlook
  • Rules to automatically take care of emails that come in regularly
  • Rules to let the user know what is going on and not have a black hole that these email end up in.
  • Lets us know when our Health Provider starts sending out emails to user, so we can notify users of this email and that its not spam.
  • Helps us reward users that report emails that most to help protect our company
  • Looking in some custom coding to send scams and virus email to other vendors for deep inspections
  • Notify supervisors about their users and who clicks on everything for safety training.
We really like the cost and the coverage that PhishER brings to the company and being able to over lap with our email provider and spam filtering vendors has been a huge help.
No
  • Scalability
  • Integration with Other Systems
  • Other
Being able to report emails and create rules to automate these was the biggest factor.
Being able to do so much with PhishER has made us question other vendors and why they aren't already doing what PhishER already does. That we use PhishER on top of what other vendors do because it's more customizable.
Work with support or rep for some basic steps, the rest is pretty straight foward.
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
  • Yara Rule Editor was the only issue we encountered
Support has been easy to get along with and easy to understand.
We didn't purchase premium support because the product is very easy to use.
No
Doing some customizing on our rules, support was able to listen to our needs and send us an example of what we needed promptly. Then they followed up with some suggestions to add to it like some other companies had already done.
Very easy to use and able to customize it to our companies needs and changing needs monthly.
  • Phish button is the best thing we have used
  • Rules are setup and changed around all the time depending on our environment
  • Yara Rule Editor was a little tough to understand but it didn't take long.
  • iPhone users button to be able to
Yes
It works well, iPhones have a little issue with interface but it's manageable.
PhishER is easy to intergrate with other providers but some of the other vendors don't play nice with PhishER
  • Proofpoint
  • Microsoft Exchange Online
Getting the systems to talk to each other was the toughest part, after that it was easy to update and exchange information.
  • Exchange 2019
  • Other Email Vendors
  • Mail Relay
Some vendors support integration and some your have to manipulate it to work with powershell or coding.
  • File import/export
  • API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
  • AppExchange or similar marketplace
Powershell
Know your vendors and talk to them about integration before you try to integrate PhishER.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
With today's growing phishing attack surface, the need for a reporting and management system is inevitable. Manually managing phishing responses is cumbersome and downright unsafe. KnowBe4 PhishER allows us to quickly and safely manage our phishing reports.
  • Detailed Phishing Indicators
  • Automatic Categorization of Phishing Emails
  • Multi-Admin Workflow
  • Automated Responses
  • Setup a bit tricky out of the box. I prefer self-service setups that are easy to use, but KnowBe4 PhishER does offer great service for their products.
KnowBe4 PhishER is suited for any decently sized organization. No matter the business, phishing is a severe threat today.
Incident Response Platforms (5)
60%
6.0
Company-wide Incident Reporting
N/A
N/A
Integration with Other Security Systems
100%
10.0
Centralized Dashboard
100%
10.0
Machine Learning to Prevent Incidents
N/A
N/A
Live Response for Rapid Remediation
100%
10.0
  • Less time coordinating phishing response
  • Less time investigating reports
  • Mitigating phishing risk more effectively
The PhishER identification tags are vital to our response team. The tags help us prioritize threats over spam or false positive reports.
PhishML, PhishRIP, and PhishER blocklist
All capabilities allow us to centrally manage our phishing response. Before we would have to manually track down emails in Microsoft's Security console, wasting a lot of time. All capabilities allow us to easily manage our phishing threats.
KnowBe4 PhishER is flexible. The configuration can be as simple or complex as you like. They also offers support for configuring the instance to your organization's specific needs.
Talk with your rep to ensure you are using the software to its fullest potential.
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
Setting up workflows for your team is important. Having specific workflows for our criteria is helpful. Configuring quick actions also saves us a lot of time.
No - we have not done any custom code
N/a
160
Information technology (reviewers) and end users (reporters)
1
Information Technology with a focus on security
  • Security
  • Ransomware Mitigation
  • Malicious email tracking
  • Automated workflows
  • Automated responses
  • Machine learning
KnowBe4 PhishER fits nicely into their product suite. It is both affordable and useful.
No
  • Cloud Solutions
  • Integration with Other Systems
  • Ease of Use
Ease of use is important for small businesses that don't have many resources to dedicate to a complicated solution.
I wouldn't change anything
KnowBe4 support is attentive to our needs. Our requests and concerns are always processed quickly.
No, the support is included in our current contract
No
They assisted us with setting up the more handy features, like quick actions.
The configuration is a bit complicated, but easy once you get the hang of it. Once configured, it is easy to manage our malicious emails that are reported by our staff.
  • Quick actions
  • Link tracking
  • Initial setup
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