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KnowBe4 PhishER

Overview

What is KnowBe4 PhishER?

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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Recent Reviews

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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How KnowBe4 PhishER Differs From Its Competitors

Time Savings

With KnowBe4 PhishER, we freed up incident response analysts' time to focus on more critical threat emails and associated mitigation actions. This has freed up analyst time, and they can now spend it on projects and security training, primarily related to cloud security technology. PhishER's quick …
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Time Savings

By handling 75% of emails that are reported with the PAB, analyzing and replying to the reporter without intervention, KnowBe4 PhishER has saved us hours and hours of handling and research time. Even the 25% or less amount of emails we have to manual review are quicker because KnowBe4 PhishER has …
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PhishER Capabilities

We have attempted to utilize PhishRIP, but I'm not sure it's found a lot of duplicates to pull from our email. We also utilize the KnowBe4 PhishER Blocklist and PhishML. We have not turned on PhishFlip at this point.
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Time Savings

It's pretty simple. It saves time by managing whether emails are threats or spam. If a user clicks on a suspicious email and Knowbe4 knows that, then a technician doesn't have to review the email.
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Time Savings

Everyday we are getting phishing, spam, and clean emails reported via the KnowBe4 phish alert button. Auto resolving spam and clean emails help us prioritize and streamline our response to valid phishing emails. This frees up our team for blocking real threats and investigating emails that might …
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PhishER Capabilities

We use PhishRIP, PhishFlip, and PhihsER Blocklist. These tools help us keep everything in one place. PhishRIP pulls threats that were reported by users via the Phish Alert Button from other mailboxes to keep these from getting clicked on. PhishFlip helps us use real phishing emails as phishing …
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Time Savings

As my team gets more used to using the PAB, they are less likely to reach out to me specifically to ask about security issues or phishing emails. Users are able to report issues without taking time to write a message, and can trust that if I need to see it I will.
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PhishER Capabilities

I am currently using PhishRIP to collect and search for malicious emails. I am looking into other capabilities but am still working through onboarding myself and my team fully.
PhishRIP has helped me cut down on noise for email reporting and helps me be proactive in trying to quarnatine emails from …
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Time Savings

With KnowBe4 PhishER's capability of recognizing threats when they are reported, the reports are automatically processed and employees receive real-time feedback to the reports they have made without us having to intervene. The automatic resolution of threats has been a huge timesaver, because it …
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PhishER Capabilities

We are using PhishRip, and the blocklist capability currently. Being able to utilize the efforts of all employees to create a comprehensive blocklist has been great. The ability to search for threats and RIP them from inboxes has also been a huge help. Finding those identified threats and removing …
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Time Savings

Instead of depending on individuals to alert our security team and handling incidents one email at a time, we can see & manage threats at the organization level, even removing them before one of our team members even sees an email.
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Time Savings

We're able to have potential phishing emails go to a centralized dashboard. There, they can sit while we assign a rating and the possibility of a phishing attempt. This saves our organization time and energy so we can focus on the critical side of business. We're also able to let users know …
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Time Savings

Considering that the company has more than 30,000 employees, the number of phishing emails received daily is very high. Only thanks to the KnowBe4 PhishER was it possible to manage the workload automatically, efficiently and quickly, drastically reducing the number of users who click on malicious …
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PhishER Capabilities

My organisation have implemented the PhishML machine learning that allow to automatically categorise email and react based on type of category and tags, creating rules and actions is easy to respond to the users if the emails is a threats or spam or clean. We use also the PhishFlip very useful to …
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Time Savings

It has saved a lot of time in terms of reporting emails from our user side and from the security team perspective as well. We got a centralized dashboard where we can see all reported emails instead of looking for reported emails in the outlook. With the AI feature of KnowBe4 PhishER, it is …
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PhishER Capabilities

We have implemented PhishML for automatic categorization of reported emails. We have PhishRIP to see how many number of other users have received the same phishing email that one user reported, so that we can quarantine all emails. PhishFlip is helping us to test our users based on a real phishing …
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Time Savings

KnowBe4 PhishER has allowed us to focus on other core security related issues by allowing users to report emails and having KnowBe4 PhishER identify what type of threat the email is and what must be done with it. We can then go through a update any we believe were incorrectly identified, but this …
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PhishER Capabilities

We have implemented PhishRIP as it easily allows KnowBe4 PhishER to identify duplicate scam/phishing emails in other users mailboxes and quarantines them. We also use Blocklist regularly to ensure further emails from the same senders are blocked from our network and users mailboxes. We finally use …
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Time Savings

The machine learning portion of PhishER does a great job of identifying good, bad, and suspicious actors and brings all of them to our attention in an easy to use dashboard. The reporting of bad actors is quick, and the response to mitigate is fast as well.
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PhishER Capabilities

We currently utilize the PhishML to help us determine whether an email is a legitmate threat, spam, or otherwise suspicious. All without us having to individually review every submission. PhishRIP does the leg work of removing legitimate threats from all inboxes (or sub folders) automatically. …
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Time Savings

Using KnowBe4 PhishER, our organization has streamlined the incident response process, distinguishing real threats from harmless emails efficiently. This precision has saved us substantial time, estimated at a 55% reduction in sifting through false positives. The time saved is reinvested into …
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PhishER Capabilities

As of now, our organization hasn’t implemented any of these specific capabilities like PhishML, PhishRIP, PhishFlip, or the PhishER Blocklist from KnowBe4’s PhishER. However, recognizing their potential to automate threat remediation, transform threats into training, and customize security …
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Time Savings

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.
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Time Savings

We have a very small team, and KnowBe4 PhishER has saved us time identifying and managing messages. With KnowBe4 PhishER, we have a comprehensive dashboard that allows us to take direct action and measures that also impact future potential attacks and attempts. Before KnowBe4 PhishER, we had …
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PhishER Capabilities

We are using the standard capabilities of KnowBe4 PhishER, and with the help of KnowBe4 products specialists, have configured it optimally for our organization. We utilize KnowBe4 PhishER Blocklist to block undesired senders that based on their profile and messages, are obviously attacking us. We …
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Time Savings

Yes we use the automated actions feature so that emails that are found with a high confidence to be "Clean" or "Spam" & not "Threat" are automatically resolved with an email automatically sent to the reporter notifying them of the findings. There is also an automated email sent to me in additional …
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Time Savings

All the flagged emails from the PAB are gathered in one place. The system flags many emails using the filters and appropriately classifies them. Those it cannot automatically identify with certainly are presented into one page where I can systematically and quickly teach the system of new threats …
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PhishER Capabilities

We have used PhishML, PhishRIP, and PhishER Blocklist. I have used PhishFliip on one occasion. The email that was flipped was too advanced of a test where all the users failed to catch it.
It has significantly reduced my time weeding through the 15,000 emails that would have come through my inbox …
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Time Savings

Thanks to the built-in machine learning features, KnowBe4 PhishER has greatly increased our ability to identify and respond to reported emails. For example, we will automatically mark high-confidence phishing emails as malicious and begin the process to block the sender and quarantine the email …
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Time Savings

I feel like I'm repeating myself, but it saves us time in the fact that end-users can simply submit an email for review and move on with their day where before it usually ended with a call to the Helpdesk. So this saves our end-users time and our Helpdesk's time
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PhishER Capabilities

PhishRIP (best feature of them all by a long shot) PhishML (works for the most part, but in my experience, we have had issues with alot of false positives with the "clean" rating" PhishFlip (we've used it a couple of times, but it is not something that we utilize alot) We don't use the PhishER …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Live Response for Rapid Remediation (55)
    7.8
    78%
  • Company-wide Incident Reporting (52)
    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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3001-5000 Monthly Pricing Per Seat

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2001-3000 Monthly Pricing Per Seat

$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
Avg 8.5
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Product Details

What is KnowBe4 PhishER?

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 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 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 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.

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 are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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