Best product for KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
July 25, 2024
Best product for KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training

Score 10 out of 10
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Software Version
Training Access Level III (Diamond)
Modules Used
- KnowBe4
- The Security Awareness Company
- SecurityCoach
- Compliance Plus
Overall Satisfaction with KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training
We use KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training in our organization to provide company-wide security awareness training to all of our employees. We generally provide training on social engineering topics and compliance training. For Non-IT employees, we provide trainings where less technical terms are used and for IT people, we use highly technical trainings like Kevin Mitnick trainings. Before using the KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training, we were facing a lot of issues on spam and phishing emails. Our employees were not able to identify difference between a real and phishing email and we were facing account compromise issues as well but after implementing this training, we are seeing a lot of difference and seeing a positive growth at the organization level. Since employees are not getting into phishing and vishing attacks, we have seen confidence in users and also protecting them from account compromise. From Knowbe4, we have purchased Security Awareness Training, PhishER and Security Coach and we are using all of them to protect our data and to educate our employees.
Pros
- KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training has well-designed videos on almost every topic of social engineering attacks, making it the best in the market. It has less technical videos for Non-IT people and high technical like KMSAT for IT people other than cyber security guys.
- KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training has a good phishing test campaign feature from which you can launch a phishing test for all or a selected group of people to test them on a real phishing test environment.
- KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training has a good number of security related games and quizzes that makes the training part funny and attractive.
- KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training provides monthly newsletters and posters that we can use to send to all employees to make them aware of the current security scenarios.
Cons
- KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training has a good amount of videos but they still have fewer videos with different lengths on top priority topics like Phishing attacks, Smishing attacks, Vishing attacks, etc. They should add more videos with different lengths on these topics.
- KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training does not update its video inventory called 'ModStore' with the latest and trending topics of cyber security. They should review and add videos every week with the latest trends in the security.
- Security Coach that comes with the Diamond Subscription of KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training is a good feature but it is very difficult to implement it. You have to provide all your organization's data to this application so that it can read all and can generate alerts on that basis.
- The KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training has had a very positive impact on our organization. After implementing this, our end users are educated and now they can make a difference between a clean email and a phishing email.
- After implementing the training, we are seeing a very less number of clicks on a phishing link and hence we have improved our data breach rate.
- With the KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training, we have minimized the account compromise rate because users are aware and they are not getting fooled by a phishing email.
- With KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training, we have gained trust from outside customers on a security level.
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training has a lot of good features that Mimecast was missing.
Mimecast does not have a proper inventory of videos like KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training.
Mimecast does not have animation based videos. Most of the users of my company like animated videos because it is east to understand.
Like KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training, Mimecast do not have a proper phishing test setup and you cannot test your end users on a phishing campaign.
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training has games and quizzes of high quality that Mimecast was missing.
With the help of Kevin Mitnick videos, KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training has an edge in technical vides over any other vendor.
With the awareness training, KnowBe4 has other products like PhishER and Security Coach that help us to improve overall security.
The customer support of KnowBe4 is excellent.
Mimecast does not have a proper inventory of videos like KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training.
Mimecast does not have animation based videos. Most of the users of my company like animated videos because it is east to understand.
Like KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training, Mimecast do not have a proper phishing test setup and you cannot test your end users on a phishing campaign.
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training has games and quizzes of high quality that Mimecast was missing.
With the help of Kevin Mitnick videos, KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training has an edge in technical vides over any other vendor.
With the awareness training, KnowBe4 has other products like PhishER and Security Coach that help us to improve overall security.
The customer support of KnowBe4 is excellent.
Do you think KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training's feature set?
Yes
Did KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training again?
Yes
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 three weeks.
They have videos of Kevin Mitnick that is very knowledgeable and helpful and also they have newsletters from different publishers. But in this area, they should review update their content on weekly basis and try to add the topics of the last week or week before that.
They have videos of Kevin Mitnick that is very knowledgeable and helpful and also they have newsletters from different publishers. But in this area, they should review update their content on weekly basis and try to add the topics of the last week or week before that.
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 excel sheet.
In my case, I use Azure application to sync our users in real time with the KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training application. KnowBe4 has an application that we can use in azure to connect and sync our user to the application directly. This will sync all the users and groups to the KnowBe4 portal and then we can use them as per our requirements. Any changes in the organization like any user has left the organization or any new user has joined, the application will sync with the directory and make same update in the KnowBe4 portal within an hour. So, you do not need to be worry about the user management in KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training, it is simple and easy.
In my case, I use Azure application to sync our users in real time with the KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training application. KnowBe4 has an application that we can use in azure to connect and sync our user to the application directly. This will sync all the users and groups to the KnowBe4 portal and then we can use them as per our requirements. Any changes in the organization like any user has left the organization or any new user has joined, the application will sync with the directory and make same update in the KnowBe4 portal within an hour. So, you do not need to be worry about the user management in KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training, it is simple and easy.
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 from that, we have focused on Training Activity Report, Group and user report cards, Phishing Activity report, Risk score report, Training status report by campaign, Failure type report, and training status overview report, etc.

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