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KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training

Overview

What is KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

KnowBe4 is a security awareness and compliance training and simulated social engineering product. It is used by organizations worldwide to strengthen their security culture and reduce human risk. The product includes a comprehensive suite of awareness and compliance training,…

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KnowBe4...Effective Cybersecurity Training/Phishing Tool for K-12 Education

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 5, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
KnowBe4 Secuity Awareness Training has been our GO-TO for district-wide cybersecurity awareness training, phishing and SPAM/Phishing mitigation tool. We coordinate mandatory c...
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David Liss
C-Level Executive - Information Technology
Executive Director of Technology
Nixa Public Schools
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training9 years of experience

KnowBe4 - a premier security awareness product

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 24, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use KnowBe4 for our security awareness training, phishing tests, and phishing alerts. The product excels in all of these areas. We haven't found another product that compet...
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John Cook
Director - Engineering
Director of Applications and Networking
ICMA (International City/County Management Association)
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training6 years of experience

Great software for all training needs. Plus the PAB is a great tool!

Rating: 9 out of 10
August 9, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training makes training our employees on HR and IT subjects super easy. The layout and tracking helps us to keep on top of where our employees are o...
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Jeremy Hommowun, CTS
Program Manager - Information Technology
Educational Technology Manager
Illinois College
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training4 years of experience

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training living up to its name and training staff prone to phishing attacks

Rating: 7 out of 10
July 29, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
To train our staff, faculty and students about phishing threats and cyber security awareness to protect our banking transactions that students and our procurement staff make f...
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Humayoon Khan
Team Lead - Information Technology
Team Lead Cyber Security
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training2 years of experience

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 19, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use the product to raise awareness and increase the security maturity of employees within the company.We are still at the beginning, so we use a lot regarding the level of ...
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Thais Devides
Program Manager - Other
Segurança da Informação
Matrix Energia
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training2 years of experience
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How KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Differs From Its Competitors

Value of Centralized Services

The addition of the compliance training complements the security awareness training in the product. The ease of adding the compliance training through the same automated processes that we use for our security awareness training makes the administration and management of our training easy.
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KnowBe4 Training Content

It highly impacts our training program, because cyber threats are not just increasing in count but their complexity has also increased. These attackers are trying out new techniques and ideas every day thus to stay protected we must ensure latest up to date training content.
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KnowBe4 Reporting

Most important metric is how many users click a phishing link, how many report it and how many eventually end up entering their info on the phishing page. This really helps us detect people that need to be trained more to be protected.
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KnowBe4 Training Content

We really haven't used many of the titles in the training resource library. I do appreciate that the training we use for our annual required training is updated annually so it doesn't get stale to our users.
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KnowBe4 User Management

I manage all of our current staff by placing them in an annual group. Then I can archive that group and import a new one each year which weeds out anyone who has left over the course of a year.
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KnowBe4 Training Content

The KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training has a good amount of videos on fresh and trending topics but they still lack in this area. They have videos on topics that have passed a month or two months ago but they have very less videos on recent attacks like the attack that happened in the last two to …
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KnowBe4 User Management

In KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training portal, we can manage our users in two way. Either we can connect them through a cloud application called SAAS application or we can add them manually. In manually, we will get multiple options like we can add users one by one or we can import them through an …
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KnowBe4 Reporting

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training provides reports on multiple aspects like training completion status, phishing campaign user's phish prone percentage status, personal report of users like which user have completed how many number of trainings and on how much test campaign he/she failed. Apart …
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KnowBe4 Training Content

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training adds the fresh training content every moth with the video training and the newsletters with the security quotes. We are using the newsletters to send to our users on the monthly security email to provide the last month trending threats of the market. With the …
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KnowBe4 User Management

In KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training, we manage all of our users through the active directory sync process through a SAAS application that is created in our Azure AD Environment. The sync generally happens 3-4 times per day to make the things same as per AD. We can automatically sync the …
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KnowBe4 Reporting

We use the report section to see the overall progress of the training. The security awareness training report (training campaign report) we see on weekly basis to see the overall growth or deduction in the training. After the launch of phishing test, we use the report to see how many people have …
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KnowBe4 Training Content

KnowBe4 and the wide variety of constantly updating content has allowed our organization to maintain fresh and relevant topics to keep in front of our employees to keep them engaged in our security posture and our security culture. We have even been able to perform annual HR training thanks to the …
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KnowBe4 Reporting

When using KnowBe4, we look for users to complete the training and to have a positive experience while doing so. Being able to see that the investment we made selecting KnowBe4 directly correlates with our failure rate going down is an excellent graphic and something I am very proud of come Q4 for …
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KnowBe4 Training Content

Nothing is worse than not having enough content. Having access to fresh content from different publishers has had a positive affect on our training program. You don't want the same phishing emails an training campaigns because users will become use to them. I like the fact that they are refreshed …
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KnowBe4 Training Content

We save time by looking in KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training for content first, and 90% of the time we use what we find without having to look outside of KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training. User feedback has been mostly positive for both the quality of the content as well as the production …
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KnowBe4 User Management

We have integrated KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training with Active Directory to ensure that our user list is reconciled regularly. We have discovered that the integration can be error prone with AD fields and KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training fields not always aligning perfectly. That said, it …
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KnowBe4 Reporting

We rely on a few common metrics. Generally, we look at training completion rates, we keep a close eye on new hire time to train, and we monitor risk scores at the individual and team levels. Last, but not least, we keep close watch on the Phish Prone Percentage, again at the individual and team …
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KnowBe4 Reporting

We use the executive reports for our board as they provide a great overview of the organization as a whole and we utilize training specific reports for our department heads to provide visibility on areas of improvement.
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KnowBe4 Training Content

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training backend team always keeps on updating modules and upload fresh content. They always retire the old content whenever required and keep on updating the old content as per the security needs. Modules on the KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training portal fulfil our …
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KnowBe4 User Management

For user management, we have created multiple groups as per the existing teams in our company. Multiple groups have been created like admin, it, finance, security, human resources, etc. Then we initiate the trainings as per the requirements of the team and also perform the phishing simulation test …
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KnowBe4 Reporting

InfoSec training reports are very important to pass the compliance audit and performing phishing simulation test is also very critical part for passing external audits. We have also gone through ISO certification and multiple external audits happened and with the help of the KnowBe4 Security …
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KnowBe4 Training Content

It gives us many prospectives and viewpoints on cyber security allowing us to chose training modules that more closely align with the companies cyber security initiatives and goals. It gives us our own voice by allowing us to tailor the training to fit our workplace culture and be appropriate for …
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KnowBe4 User Management

With Active Directory integration our users get imported into our Knowbe4 console which we access via a web browser. From there Knowbe4 gives you tons of options on managing users. You can assign them to groups or do targeted campaigns for specified users. The best part is that it gives a very …
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KnowBe4 Reporting

The reporting section is Knowbe4's biggest strength. It categorizes users based on risk level and how likely they are to click on suspicious links which allows you to mitigate the danger to the organization by providing more training to the user so they can learn from the simulation and hopefully …
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KnowBe4 Training Content

Better overall cyber security awareness across the organisation, it also created a discussion point for staff. The synthetic phishing provided a great overall view of the organisations understanding of the training and allowed us to target specific groups for extended training. Additionally it was …
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KnowBe4 User Management

We used the Azure Active Directory Sync - which allowed us to manage everything through AD. It was easy to set up, KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training provided comprehensive instructions on how to configure the connector. It would have been nicer to manage using groups, however we could manage …
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KnowBe4 Reporting

The most important statistics for our organisation were the percentage of training completion as well as the number of users that had clicked on a synthetic phishing email. Both were reported up to the board for visibility. There was additional reporting capability, however we found it best to …
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KnowBe4 Training Content

It has a huge impact on our end users. They have been made aware of what emails are coming to them. if they noticed the emails that are phishing emails, they are more aware of them and delete them and/or report it to us as part of the exercise.
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KnowBe4 User Management

User management is connected with our office365 environment. If a user is no longer with the company, their access is denied. if we hire more employees, those employees will be added and sync to our office365. Also, only the IT department will have access along with our compliance department for …
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KnowBe4 Reporting

The metrics and report are important because it gives us a general idea of who and/or whom is not paying attention and who is actually carefully examining their emails. So far our end users are passing the test and some are almost there.
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KnowBe4 Training Content

It has made the training the employees must take enjoyable and relevant. During covid, KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training created training for how to securely work from home and how to properly secure yourself while working in more public areas. That same attitude has continued after the pandemic …
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KnowBe4 User Management

We utilize the built in integration with Azure/Active Directory for the creation and modification of user profiles. From there KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training makes it easy to apply users to new groups both manually and with the creation of automatic rules. This included the ease of creating …
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KnowBe4 Reporting

Our most important metric is our PhishProne percentage. I have created custom reports for finding our training completion rate and security culture that are key to developing our training program and security posture. The recent modification to how the template reports are organized and generated …
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Awards

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Video Reviews

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KnowBe4 Review: Security Analyst Finds End-User Success With Security User Awareness Training
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Pricing

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Silver

$0.95

Cloud
per month (billed annually) per seat

Gold

$1.10

Cloud
per month (billed annually) per seat

Platinum

$1.25

Cloud
per month (billed annually) per seat

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.knowbe4.com/pricing…

Offerings

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

8.9
Avg 8.4

Security Awareness Training

Common features of security awareness training products.

8.2
Avg 8.2
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Product Details

What is KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

KnowBe4 is a security awareness and compliance training and simulated social engineering product. It is used by organizations worldwide to strengthen their security culture and reduce human risk.


The product includes a comprehensive suite of awareness and compliance training, real-time user coaching, AI-powered simulated social engineering, crowdsourced anti-phishing defense and an AI suite that enhances human risk management through personalized training and automation. With content in 35+ languages, KnowBe4 provides an always-fresh library of engaging content to strengthen an organization's human firewall.


KnowBe4 provides:

  • Baseline testing to assess the Phish-Prone™ Percentage of users through a free simulated phishing attack

  • Fully automated simulated phishing attacks, using thousands of customizable templates with unlimited usage

  • AI-Driven phishing and training recommendations based on your users' phishing and training history

  • Enterprise strength reporting, showings stats and graphs for both training and phishing, ready for management

  • Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents (AIDA), AI-powered agents that reduce admin burden by automating template generation, training and reporting


KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Features

Security Awareness Training Features

  • Supported: Training Content Library
  • Supported: Multilingual Training Content
  • Supported: Training Gamification
  • Supported: Industry-Specific Security Training
  • Supported: Individualized Security Training Plans
  • Supported: Phishing Simulations
  • Supported: Security Reporting
  • Supported: Integration with Security Tech Stack

Security Features

  • Supported: Role-based user permissions
  • Supported: Single sign-on capability
  • Supported: Multi-factor authentication

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Screenshots

Screenshot of The Phishing Dashboard Displays how end users are doing at-a-glance and in comparison to peers across industries with Industry Benchmarking.Screenshot of Virtual Risk Officer™ The Virtual Risk Officer functionality helps identify risk to support data-driven decisions about a security awareness plan.Screenshot of the library of security awareness training content. KnowBe4 partners with The Security Awareness Company, Popcorn Training, exploqii, Twist & Shout, El Pescador, CLTRe, Saya University, and MediaPRO.Screenshot of the library of security awareness training content. KnowBe4 partners with The Security Awareness Company, Popcorn Training, exploqii, Twist & Shout, El Pescador, CLTRe, Saya University, and MediaPRO.

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KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Integrations

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KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported LanguagesArabic, Chinese (Cantonese) - Traditional, Chinese (Mandarin) - Simplified, Chinese (Mandarin) - Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (Australia), English (Great Britain), English (United States), Finnish, French (Europe), French (Canada), German, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Europe), Romanian, Russian, Spanish (Europe), Spanish (Latin America), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

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Frequently Asked Questions

Cofense PhishMe, Infosec IQ, and Proofpoint Security Awareness Training are common alternatives for KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training.

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).
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