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AC
IT Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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"Excellent training and top notch support"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

The support staff's hands on approach. They call with suggested trainings and walk me through setting it up.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

I haven't found anything that I dislike about them yet.

Recommendations to others considering KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training:

Go for it!

What problems is KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training solving and how is that benefiting you?

Training our users to pay attention to incoming emails that look suspicious, and not to be as click happy. Most users find this training useful, not only at work, but at home as well.

David P.
DP
Director of Information Technology
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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"Great Solution"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

It is a comprehensive solution that seeks to reduce organizational risk, especially the risk associated with phishing email. Our users have proven to be very vulnerable to phishing despite previous attempts to educate them about the dangers of opening links and attachments from messages that have an urgent tone. This solution is easier for users to digest and learn how to reduce this risk and for management to take an upper hand in setting expectations for their direct reports. The phish alert tool was also very easy to deploy and educate users on how to use it effectively.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

The ASAP program is heavy handed. It has too many steps and needs some different templates for different types of implementation.

What problems is KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reduction of phishing risk, better user education, better management awareness.

CH
IT Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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"Fabulous Training"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

It has made my company's users think before clicking links in emails.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

I can't really think of anything I dislike.

Recommendations to others considering KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training:

It was easy to set up and implement. Users tell me the training videos are entertaining and fun.

What problems is KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training solving and how is that benefiting you?

The problem was people were putting us in possible danger by opening or responding to phishing emails. Now everyone is trained and aware of the dangers.

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AG
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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"A substantive, nicely packaged cyber-training/awareness solution with great reporting tools."

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

It's centralized cloud-based management dashboard and features available.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

Somewhat clumsy workflow with the Customized Logo/Branding aspects initially, for templates and default communications.

Recommendations to others considering KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training:

Solid product and current with available ready support on all fronts.

What problems is KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training solving and how is that benefiting you?

Enforcing internal security policies and enhancing/modernizing staff's awareness of threats faced with modern technology.

Aaron R.
AR
IS Manager
Computer Networking
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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"Solid security awareness Software-As-A-Service"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

Quality content served through an intuitive interface. KnowBe4's focus on the custom's success sets the standard of excellence for other service oriented companies to pursue.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

It's efficacy is still entirely dependent on managements ability to value & enforce participation of the product which is not a quality one can attribute to the software. But what if a solution could?

Recommendations to others considering KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training:

When do a cost comparison among vendors you can't count on KnowBe4 being the top dog in which to measure all others.

What problems is KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training solving and how is that benefiting you?

Problem: Very high Phish Prone Rate. Benefits: quantifying benchmark to improve upon, Granular data and numerous configuration arrangements allow an administrator numerous methods to tackle their problems.

Sherri J.
SJ
Applications Specialist
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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"Fabulous tool to educate your users on cybersecurity and how to recognize malicious emails"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

Ease of use - I set up a phishing campaign every month using random emails. The test emails prepared by knowbe4 are excellent! I send out only 4 and 5 star difficulty test emails and are users have really learned how to spot red flags in emails. They are constantly upgrading their training videos as well (super high quality videos that encourage our users to pay attention and learn!)

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

Nothing to dislike with this product - it's easy to use and their support is fantastic.

Recommendations to others considering KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training:

Get it! Your worry about ransomware will almost vanish once you start educating your users!

What problems is KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have gone from a 7.5 phishing percentage down to .9% last month. This means are users are protecting our data by recognizing malicious intent.

BC
IT Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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"It's all about the people"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

My favorite part about KnowBe4 is that they get the facts right. They inform my users in an efficient, technically accurate manner. Also, I like how easy it is to create phishing campaigns and manage training.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

I've experienced some bugs with campaigns that made me feel like maybe they don't test things enough. While support got back to me quickly, they knew little about the development process or technical details as to what would cause the issues.

I wish I could integrate authentication with my AD.

It would be nice if the training videos were changed more on an annual basis. The training videos can get very repetitive.

Recommendations to others considering KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training:

Get started as soon as possible! Hackers are nearly a thing of the past, today it's all about manipulating users. Inform them and give them the tools to spot the trickery!

What problems is KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training solving and how is that benefiting you?

KnowBe4 is my solution to security awareness training, getting users to think before they click. I am pretty sure I would have had a breech by now if it weren't for Knowbe4.

EO
IT Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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"The ultimate teaching tool for cybersecurity!"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

The campaigns/training's are always current and pertinent. The dashboard is very straightforward and support is amazing. I am impressed how fast we have seen a change in our organization. Being a governmental agency we are always on high alert for virus, scams etc.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

I am not sure if I can actually list a dislike in all fairness. There have been no experiences that have been negative. As I stated, it is always evolving and has been a great tool.

Recommendations to others considering KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training:

This will be the ultimate teaching tool. look no further!!! This has paid for itself over and over.

What problems is KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can't believe how fast the staff responded to the training's and how much it has helped our district.The staff has learned how to recognize a spam/spoofed email based on all of the tools on Know be 4. For instance, they are not actively looking at the senders return address, not name. We have experienced at least 6 email scam attempts since implementing KnowBe4 and not once did the staff engage in the scam. The scammers go online to our public website and send emails on behalf of our director. Prior to Knowbe4 one of our staff believed it was

They have learned what spoofing is and what to look for. They find the training's also really help in their personal lives.

JH
Network Admin
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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"Almost Everything You Could Want"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

Their support. Anytime we have a problem or question we can always call up and get someone on the line almost instantly. What's even better is those people actually help us with our problems. We actually get the same people each time we call and they seem to remember who we are and what we're trying to do. We don't have to explain things as completely every time.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

The lack of ability to modify the training materials or even upload / create our own materials. We would love to use the platform as a training website as much as a phishing test. There are some ways to get around this but it isn't ideal or complete. We would also like the ability to assign reporting admins who can oversee their specific campaigns and only those campaigns.

Recommendations to others considering KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training:

Allow us to create our own training materials with much greater ease, modify the materials you already have in place, and designate users to be campaign creators or at least reviewers of campaigns without having to make them full admins. We would love to assign users in every department the ability to create training materials specific for their department in order to satisfy specific goals. Right now the only way to do that is to make them global admins.

What problems is KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training solving and how is that benefiting you?

We picked up KnowBe4 because it was so cheap and we were not doing any phishing tests at the time. We quickly adapted KnowBe4 to be our complete training platform for the agency. Right now training is just as important to us as the phishing part is and it's great to be able to see who completed what and how long it took them to do it. Checks a lot of compliance boxes for us.

NT
IT Field Technician
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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"Quality End User Security Testing and Training"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

Whats most helpful is simply having another tool to test my users and help educate them about security threats.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

Simply the time it takes to get everything going, not that it's any worse than other systems I use, just that my organization is under staffed.

Recommendations to others considering KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training:

Not having a system in place before KnowBe4 leaves me at a little bit of a loss based on price and functionality. Since we have gone live with KnowBe4 several of our other vendors have brought on similar offerings but KnowBe4 remains an industry leader.

What problems is KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training solving and how is that benefiting you?

We've got regular testing of our users dealt with right up front, phishing emails go out and remediation is handled with very little involvement from me.