KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Reviews & Ratings 2023

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KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training

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What is KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

KnowBe4 is a good Security Awareness Platform to use

10 out of 10

February 01, 2023

I used it in my last company creating a Training campaign and managing campaigns also created security phishing emails to the employees to …

KnowBe4 Security for Best in Class Education and Protection

9 out of 10

January 30, 2023

We use KnowBe4's Security Awareness Training as a core educational component for our employee base. The training helps drive awareness of …

Phish with the best; KnowBe4!

10 out of 10

January 30, 2023

KnowBe4 let's our users receive Phishing Training on a quarterly basis. We set up a program where if someone fails, they are auto enrolled …

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10 out of 10

January 30, 2023

This security training has been a great asset to our company. With newer users coming on board who have not worked in a company like ours …

Great value for the money spent

10 out of 10

January 30, 2023

We used it for two reasons, as a phishing test platform and as an annual required security training. The phishing test platform worked …

Review of KnowBe4 Phishing

8 out of 10

January 24, 2023

The company utilizes KnowBe4 primarily for phishing simulations, on a monthly basis, to the entire employee base. We use this to test and …

Very good training.

10 out of 10

January 23, 2023

Retraining staff when they fail to phish. Yearly cybersecurity training. If a user fails a phishing test, they are given remedial training …

An admin's perspective

6 out of 10

January 18, 2023

KB4 (as we know it) has become our de-facto training program, helping us to meet our Federal Contract requirements as well offering …

Very useful tool to improve infosec culture in our company!

10 out of 10

January 18, 2023

We use KB4 security awareness training to spread information security among our company users. We send monthly newsletters with tips, and …

KnowBe4 Delivers Everything You Need

9 out of 10

January 17, 2023

It is being used for our whole organization to provide security training and phishing testing. We have trained our userbase quite well on …

Start watching and learning at the same time!

8 out of 10

January 17, 2023

We offer all our employees a monthly Security Awareness training that should be both informative and fun to follow. KnowBe4 Security …

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training quick review

7 out of 10

January 17, 2023

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training is a comprehensive program that helps companies improve their cybersecurity defenses by educating …

A rounded experience that takes a holistic user centered approach at security training.

10 out of 10

January 17, 2023

View the different episodes and perform training sessions and quizzes. <br>My biggest issues are phishing attempts, particularly those …

Let's go Phishing

10 out of 10

January 16, 2023

We have implemented the Platinum version of KnowBe4 throughout the organization. We also are a managed service provider for local units …

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training is a must have for any org

10 out of 10

January 07, 2023

As everyone knows, email security is volatile and a common way for risks to enter a company. Security awareness training is one of the …

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How KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Differs From Its Competitors

it helps people to understand what is security on the internet by making a security trainings and making a phishing simulation to report it to the people to understand what there is their impact on it and to make them understand how to be secured on the internet

KnowBe4 User Management

I use it in two methods, the first one is manually adding, removing, manage employees data, and that too long for me to change information for each user so I go to the second method by integrating the KnowBe4 with Azure Active Directory and which make the life easy by when I edit all users or some …

KnowBe4 Reporting

the Security Score, employees Score, campaigns reports, and training status report.

KnowBe4 Training Content

The availability of fresh training content and access to different content publishers has provider our company with the best possible solution set. Fully understanding the competitive landscape of prospective providers or partners is essential when selecting these types of services. It is …

KnowBe4 User Management

Users are integrated with our active directory as well as our talent management system. We ensure that all employees with internet and e-mail access are slated or targeted for training. Integration with our internal platforms was relatively seamless and simple. User access is easily tracked and …

KnowBe4 Reporting

The most important metrics and statistics for our organization include how the performance of our employees compares to industry peers, where red flags are occuring or weaknesses are being exposed, which user groups have behaviors that are more phish prone, how we are faring against simulated …

KnowBe4 Training Content

The new content gives our users a refresh of phishing education in different modules.

KnowBe4 User Management

We have a team of two and each person is allowed full access.

KnowBe4 Reporting

Reporting the metrics to the board is very important. KnowBe4 makes this very simple.

KnowBe4 Training Content

It gives us the ability to keep up with the current landscape, keep this information fresh in users minds with quartley updates for new content so it doesn't go stale. It also is nice when a new series of the Inside Man comes out so our team can catch up with them and see what they are going …

KnowBe4 User Management

One admin handles the adding/removal and updating of the content. This process is a very easy process flow and requires minimal upkeep

KnowBe4 Reporting

Who clicked on links, how many hits we had for the week and also how many reported fake emails. This data is used as part of an incentive program to continue to drive this home that this is a long term commitment not an overnight task they have to do it to check a box and forget about it.

KnowBe4 Training Content

It made it easier to sell to upper management. It also didn't let the users lose interest as the new content made them have to think about the situation and not automatically anticipate the answer.

KnowBe4 Reporting

who passed the annual training and who keeps getting caught by phishing tests.

KnowBe4 Training Content

Unfortunately, at our tier - we are not provided access to the majority of the training content. That is an additional cost. We utilize the Phishing Simulations and testing, but have opted to create our own in-house training content due to the price increase.

KnowBe4 User Management

Everything with user management is handled with Active Directory sync. It is automated and works well.

KnowBe4 Reporting

I am not a fan of how our "Risk Score" and our "Industry Benchmark Data" is tied to training - specifically and only with the training provided by KnowBe4. I think more detailed Industry Benchmark metrics would be a good improvement. We primarily focus on our "Phish Prone" percentage on a …

KnowBe4 Training Content

I think we could have more training more frequently, especially in small bit size pieces.

KnowBe4 Reporting

Who is clicking on phishing. Seeing if the training is having an impact.

Value of Centralized Services

provides insight at the orginzationa level. Single pane of glass to have data in one place. Can push out training and and track effectivness.

KnowBe4 User Management

Daily activity as we learn how to better work with our AD systems

KnowBe4 Reporting

Status reports enrollments, completions, time spent all have become key indicators of the skills and knowledge of our workforce

KnowBe4 Training Content

Good impact. We can reach different departments with different specializations

KnowBe4 Reporting

We don't use KB4 reports. We create our own ones.

KnowBe4 Training Content

It has made tracking and providing training easy. They are constantly up to date and adding more training to cover new attacks.

KnowBe4 User Management

We have it syncing with our Azure AD combined with SSO and 2FA. It makes it easy and automatic to integrate users.

KnowBe4 Training Content

To avoid a negative "here we go again" way of thinking, we are always looking for new materials that we can use in our Security Awareness Program, which is why we added the KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training materials to our awareness program. We will have to wait a year to see if KnowBe4 …

KnowBe4 User Management

We already have a Learning Management System implemented called Studytube. All new employees are onboarded automatically in this system and will be provided with the new courses automatically. Each month a new security awareness training. We did not experience any hassle with the KnowBe4 Security …

KnowBe4 Reporting

We are monitoring if all employees complete the security awareness training within the time frame specified—these reports we obtain from our own Learning Management System.So we do not use these functions from the extensive KnowBe4 portal.

Training Content

The KnowBe4 compliance training has been recently added to our product portfolio. The nice thing is that it integrates again very well with our current in use Learning Management System. So we can easily create our own coursed from the KnowBe4 materials.

Value of Centralized Services

We do not use the KowBe4 platform for this. We use our own Learning Management System.

Cost Comparison

We have not made a comparison, we have chosen for KnowBe4 materials as we assumed they are currently the best to buy.

User Provisioning

We do not use these functions. We have our own Learning Management System that we use with the KnowBe4 materials.

AI-Driven Phishing & Training

We do not use these functions. We have our own Learning Management System that we use with the KnowBe4 materials.

KnowBe4 Training Content

The impact has been profound in a government environment. Normally security is not something high on the priority for government organizations leading. If SA is implemented, It's normally addressed with a cheaper less effective solution to just "click the Box" for compliance purposes. The constant …

KnowBe4 User Management

Our KnowBe4 admin has made our yearly training and phishing campaigns automated. Only because KnowBe4 has figured out workflow and automation. Onboarding of new employees is completely automated as well. KnowBe4 has really made the administration painless and very effective. We have also …

KnowBe4 Reporting

We utilize a lot of the dashboards and provide reports such as the Phish Prone, Risk Score, Training Status, and Security Awareness proficiency assessments to our departmental managers along with providing the stats to our executive team so that they understand the value of the platform and what …

KnowBe4 User Management

We provision our users with ADI sync through Active Directory. They can then login with Single Sign On using their M365 credentials. However, SSO with SAML is also available.

KnowBe4 Reporting

It is important to know how many users are clicking emails in the phishing simulation campaigns, what types of campaigns are more successful, and whether or not training is being completed.

KnowBe4 Training Content

Keep the organization up to date on the latest phisings out there and keep all the employees informed and alert at all times.

KnowBe4 User Management

Collect the data to learn the behavior pattern so that employees can be trained accordingly

KnowBe4 Training Content

Training and campaigns mimic real-time threats and this is essential. The ability to pull content from our education sector is important too.

KnowBe4 User Management

Campaigns and remediation for failures to include additional required training and notification of supervisor if not completed by due date.

KnowBe4 Reporting

Dashboard is essential to know our vulnerability and how we compare to others in our industry.

KnowBe4 Training Content

It has provided a broader selection for users. However, changes in the pricing model have caused us to evaluate our use of this product.

KnowBe4 User Management

We just set up campaigns and encourage end users to complete the task.

KnowBe4 Reporting

The most important metrics for us are compliance with the training and the ability to ensure a certain percentage of people are obtaining the training.

KnowBe4 Training Content

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training provides the ability to know what competitors are offering along with what works best for our company's personality and goals. This is important, if our goal is to prevent accidents from happening and make us less of an attractive prospect for theft, the better. …

KnowBe4 User Management

User management is handled with multiple admins managing the certain task, along with having temporary admins for when vacation time comes into play. Our customers or users within the company have access to the material. Everything is protected through an identified application solution, …

KnowBe4 Reporting

What type of material do associates fall for. Do associate behavior change based on the season? Do associate behavior change based on Holidays? Do associate behavior change based on schools? This allows us to know what stress triggers we have to watch out for and have us prepared to act …

KnowBe4 Training Content

It doesn't become stale. It definitely helps bring more awareness by introducing the content in a different manner each time it is presented.

KnowBe4 User Management

User management is handled by Okta SSO integration. No manual management is required unless it is to promote a user's role.

KnowBe4 Training Content

It's good to have new material to select from as users and get bored seeing the same information over and over again.

KnowBe4 User Management

Users are not directly connected to KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training. We download content that is integrated with our ABA platform used for all training of employees.

KnowBe4 Reporting

Industry averages, tracking users that are failing testing campaigns multiple times, and overall campaign results.

KnowBe4 User Management

Cybersecurity awareness is a journey - by regularly providing cybersecurity awareness training to employee

KnowBe4 Reporting

quantifiable measurements used to understand the status of systems and services through the collection, analysis and reporting of relevant data.

KnowBe4 Training Content

Variet and updates are critical to keep up with trends and keep users engaged.

KnowBe4 Reporting

we report our organization score and the phishing test results to report to executives.

KnowBe4 Training Content

There is always new training content appearing from other publishers in the KnowBe4 training console though we have recently shared that we would like to see more KnowBe4 originated training content. There are a few KnowBe4 specific modules that refreshed annually which are great, but the majority …

KnowBe4 User Management

We are currently using KnowBe4's ADI SYNC functionality to keep the user list constantly insync with our own network and significantly cut down on the maintenance required for the system. Users are automatically assigned the appropriate training modules as part of onboarding based on their role …

KnowBe4 Reporting

We rely heavily on the phish test reports to track progress and identify problem areas. We also reference the training module reports to a lesser degree to identify any employees ignoring the regular reminders to complete their training. We have few issues in that area since aside from weekly …

KnowBe4 Training Content

Our users are able to learn Cyber Awareness in a fun but educational way using the content provided in KnowBe4.

KnowBe4 User Management

Currently we are manually importing our users into KnowBe4. We are a google district.

KnowBe4 Training Content

Big impact. As we all know, the IT landscape is always evolving and it's important to keep your training up to date with the new types of potential cyber attacks.

KnowBe4 Reporting

When a user fails a phishing simulation, who has not completed training, and others.

KnowBe4 Training Content

This brought freshness to the program and allowed to keep up with the times.

KnowBe4 Reporting

Phish-prone Percentage Reports, Phishing Activity Reports, Training status, PAB usage, manual repots

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Phishing Simulations (158)
9.4
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Role-based user permissions (140)
9.0
90%
Security Reporting (155)
8.9
89%
Training Content Library (158)
8.9
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PhishER

$0.46

Cloud

per month per seat

Silver

$0.90

Cloud

per month per seat

Gold

$1.05

Cloud

per month per seat

Entry-level set up fee?

Setup fee optional

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Features

Security

This component helps a company minimize the security risks by controlling access to the software and its data, and encouraging best practices among users.

9Avg 8.4

Security Awareness Training

Common features of security awareness training products.

8.6Avg 8.4

8.9
Training Content Library
(158) Ratings
A pre-built library of security awareness training content that can be used immediately.
8.6
Multilingual Training Content
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Training content is available in multiple languages.
8.4
Training Gamification
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Training content is available in a gamified format.
7.9
Industry-Specific Security Training
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Security training can be tailored based on industry-specific requirements, such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, etc.
8.4
Individualized Security Training Plans
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Training can be tailored to individual employees based on previous training, role, or assessed vulnerability.
9.4
Phishing Simulations
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Administrators can run simulated phishing attacks to test the effectiveness of the training and assess vulnerabilities.
8.9
Security Reporting
(155) Ratings
Reports available may include statistics on phishing simulations, training completion, etc.
8.3
Integration with Security Tech Stack
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The product integrates with other security tools, such as a SIEM or SOAR platform, and may provide alerts for potential breaches.

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Product Details

What is KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

KnowBe4 is a security awareness training and simulated phishing platform used by more than 50,000 organizations around the globe. Founded by IT and data security specialist, Stu Sjouwerman, KnowBe4 helps organizations address the human element of security by raising awareness about ransomware, CEO fraud, and other social engineering tactics through a new-school approach to awareness training on security.

The KnowBe4 platform offers multi-language support for the Admin Console and end-user localization options to deliver a more immersive learning experience to users from start to finish.

KnowBe4 provides:

Baseline testing to assess the Phish-Prone(™) percentage of users through a free simulated phishing attack
1000+ interactive modules, videos, games, posters and newsletters in a library of security awareness training content
Fully automated simulated phishing attacks, thousands of templates with unlimited usage, and community phishing templates
Enterprise strength reporting, showings stats and graphs for both training and phishing

KnowBe4 has been named a leader in the Forrester Wave(™): Security Awareness and Training Solutions, Q1 2020 and #1 Support, #1 Usability and #2 Feature Set in the 2021 TrustRadius Awards.

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Features

Supported: Training library with always-fresh content
Supported: AI-driven phishing and training recommendations
Supported: Active Directory Integration
Supported: SSO/SAML Integration included across all subscription levels
Supported: Brandable content
Supported: Upload own content in KnowBe4 LMS
Supported: Skills-based and security culture surveys
Supported: Localized training and phishing content available in 34+ languages
Supported: Security awareness training is KnowBe4's core focus
Supported: Full randomization of phishing simulations
Supported: Single platform to manage training, phishing, and reporting
Supported: A dedicated customer success manager for every customer
Supported: Risk scoring by employee, group, and the whole organization
Supported: Social engineering indicators showing hidden red flags missed within an email
Supported: Integration with PhishER, using PhishFlip can immediately flip a dangerous phishing attack into an instant simulated phishing campaign

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Screenshots

Screenshot of The Phishing and Training Dashboard
Displays how end users are doing at-a-glance and in comparison to peers across industries with Industry Benchmarking.

Screenshot of Identify Risk at User, Group, and Organizational Level with Virtual Risk Officer™.
The Virtual Risk Officer functionality helps identify risk to support data-driven decisions about a security awareness plan.

Screenshot of Advanced Reporting
A Collection of 60+ Built-in Advanced Reports that Provide Holistic View of Over Time. Executive and enterprise-level reporting gives visibility into an organization’s security awareness performance with insights into correlated training and phishing simulation data over any specified period of time.

Screenshot of Engaging, Browser-based Training
KnowBe4’s learner experience offers optional gamification, in the form of leaderboards and badges, so your users will be incentivized and motivated to take their assigned training.

Screenshot of Library of security awareness training content. KnowBe4’s game-changing partnerships with The Security Awareness Company, Popcorn Training, exploqii, Canada Privacy Training, Twist & Shout, Syntrio, El Pescador, CLTRe, Saya University, lawpilots, and MediaPRO.

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KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Technical Details

Deployment Types	Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating Systems	Unspecified
Mobile Application	No
Supported Languages	en-us, ar, bg-bg, zh-hk, zh-cn, zh-tw, cs-cz, da-dk, nl-nl, en-gb, fi-fi, fr-ca, fr-fr, de-de, el-gr, he-il, hi-in, hu-hu, id-id, it-it, ja-jp, sw, ko-kr, ms-my, nb-no, pl-pl, pt-br, ro-ro, ru-ru, es-es, es-419, sv-se, th-th, tr-tr, uk-ua, vi-vn

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Reviewers rate Phishing Simulations highest, with a score of 9.4.

The most common users of KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Customer Size Distribution

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Small Businesses (1-50 employees)	5%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)	75%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)	20%

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