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Matthew Y.
MY
Information Technology Analyst
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
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Incentivized Review

"PhishER is BettER than most"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

I like the easy to use interface and implementation of training. It was a smooth process and easy to train

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

I would say the UI could be a bit more attractive. It doesn't stand out too much but that isn't always a bad thing.

What problems is KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's helping my team and firm combat cyber crime and for users in cyber security, this has proven to be very helpful

John O.
JO
Manager Cloud Security and Assurance
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
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Incentivized Review

"RipiT like a Phisihing pro"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

Ability to take real phish emails and make them part of the tool.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

Sometimes UI is confusing. It is not always easy

What problems is KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Get our end users to understand phising emails vs just spam.

Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review

"Extremely Effective Anti-Phish Platform"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

The ease of an employee being able to report a suspected phishing attempt, how the program categorizes spam and phishing emails, and the ability to turn a phish email into a test.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

Honestly, I haven't found anything yet that I don't like!

What problems is KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's helping our organization create a very effective Human Firewall. By running monthly phishing tests, being mindful of phish emails is kept at the forefront of employees minds.

Daniel M.
DM
Business Owner
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
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Incentivized Review

"PhishER is a gamechanger"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

PhishER has many great features, but PhishRIP really stands out. PhishRIP helps reduce risk and eliminate phishing emails from user's inboxes before they see them

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

There's really nothing that I dislike about PhishER.

What problems is KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

The PhishML feature helps tag and categorize for easier review and PhishRIP helps us quickly remove phishing emails from inboxes before users even see it.

Rich W.
RW
Vice President of Information Security and Infrastructure
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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"Powerful and effective, yet easy to manage"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

The PhishER dashboard is amazingly detailed with critical information right at your fingertips! We love that drilling down to the details is as simple as clicking on an icon. The "inbox" is where our administrators primarily work out of as they quickly and easily evaluate all of the reported phishing emails. The implementation team was extremely supportive and eager to see our onboarding be a success, and because of them it was! After onboarding, any question we submitted to support via email was taken care of very promptly, and it always included links to related FAQs or knowledgebase articles. Speaking of those articles, they have crisp and clean write-ups for nearly every situation, complete with screen shots and step-by-step instructions that any engineer can follow. The key to PhishER is the Phish Alert Button (PAB) and deploying that to the user community was straightforward and easy. We quickly had it deployed to O365 for both the web interface (thin client) and Outlook on the desktop (thick client). Add in the ability to automatically remove phishing emails from all mailboxes, and that is where the magic really happens!

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

Having a separate portal for the training & phishing testing vs the PhishER portal is cumbersome from an administrative perspective. These should be integrated in more ways than just a single link hidden under the username profile menu pull-down. It is akin to finding a needle in a haystack. The placement of the Phish Alert button in the Outlook web interface was changing as we implmented which made it very confusing for our users. While this may not have been KnowBe4's issue, it was not brought up that Microsoft could impact that placement. For PhishER to be effective, you must have user participation, and with that training is needed for your users. The administrator training skipped over that very important item, and it only came up after we were down the road of deploying it to our user community.

This solution is "post inbox delivery". In other words, it is not a filter between the internet and your user's inboxes. This tool is focused on "post delivery" remediation.

Recommendations to others considering KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus:

Work closely with the implementation engineer. PhishER is not a complex product to deploy, and they know the process far better than anyone else. Communication to your end-users is critical to your success, so build that into your plan. Do not rush. Include in your plan training the administrators on effectively using the PhishER system as users begin reporting messages.

What problems is KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our small organization was getting a large number of phishing emails. Our employees are excellent at spotting malicious messages, the reporting and remediation process we had in place was disorganized and inefficient. PhishER gave us the ability to streamline the reporting process and, in some cases, automate the remediation.

Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review

"We love KnowBe4"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

I love the phishing hook & the capabilities to analyze the issues. I also love their phishing campaigns & security trainings

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

There is nothing I dislike about the product

What problems is KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

In this current world of increased cyber-attacks through phishing & ransomware, it is very necessary to have some tool like PhishER to manage & administer this task using the Machine Learning & reducing the manual work my small team would be doing.

Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review

"A great all around SOAR platform for Email Security"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

PhishER is easy to set up and link with our existing phish report button and gets to work instantly. It's easy to understand what is being reported, and PhishML greatly reduces analyst investigation time. Auto responses also greatly reduce SOC response times and let our users know that we are looking into their issues, making them more likely to report.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

The YARL rules are a bit hard to set up, and I would like to see future development into the custom rule set up to be a bit easier to follow. Not impossible, but could be a bit more simple for adding tags to emails.

Recommendations to others considering KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus:

This is a top-tier SOAR platform for those in the KnowBe4 universe. Highly recommend in combination with the KnowBe4 phish report button.

What problems is KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

PhishER has greatly reduced the time for our analysts to investigate and respond to email threats inside of our environment. We have seen a near 150% increase in malicious email reports, and a near 80% reduction in time to respond to threats from our internal SOC. PhishER allows us to quickly find threats that users report, and delete them from all user inboxes. A game-changer when it comes to SOAR platforms.

Another major benefit that we did not expect is that this platform encourages users to report more emails, and the ML capabilities allow us to get a clearer picture of what is clean, spam, and a threat.

Verified User in Financial Services
EF
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review

"PhishER review"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

That it is a force maximizer for my program

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

There is nothing that I dislike about the product.

Recommendations to others considering KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus:

PHishER is a great tool to take the daily issue of phishing and automate it.

What problems is KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am solving for the lack of staff. I can now prioritize their time on other activities.

Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review

"PhishER is a wonderful tool for reporting phishing and integrating with various platforms."

What do you like best about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

PhishER has a beautiful dashboard with the option to search, find reported messages by priority, category, and a summary of messages. Either issue are manually resolved or automatically resolved. We get to setup rules and action configurations.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

PhishML is a little tricky for me to decipher and find out how it works. Priorities are not user adjustable and always have to be system-dependent. Tuning anti-phishing protection is time taking and tricky.

What problems is KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have our end-users report phishing emails through PhishER platform, and doing that ingrains the concepts learned in the training campaigns for phishing. This raises awareness in general among the workforce.

Verified User in Financial Services
EF
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review

"PhishER easy way to manage your potential threats."

What do you like best about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

PhishER's ability to flip a phishing attack into a training exercise for your employees to learn from and reduce the threat to your business.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus?

Navigation in the administration tool can be challenging to locate what you are trying to find.

What problems is KnowBe4 PhishER/PhishER Plus solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ability to analyze and prioritize messages promptly has been a significant benefit. Before, it would take days to determine if a message was a threat.