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Verified User in Higher Education
UH
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 Gives Campaign
Incentivized Review

"Practical, Real-World Cybersecurity Training That’s Easy to Follow"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

The upside is that it makes cybersecurity feel practical instead of overwhelming. The training uses real-world examples, short modules, and interactive content that make it easier to understand threats like phishing, password attacks, and social engineering. Since students rely so heavily on email, online platforms, and shared networks, learning how to recognize cyber risks feels directly relevant.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

Some of the training modules can feel repetitive. While the information is important, certain lessons can come across as more of a compliance task than an engaging learning experience, especially if the content feels predictable.

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

It helps solve the problem of limited cybersecurity awareness and the risk of making simple online mistakes. Since we use email, learning platforms, cloud storage, and public Wi-Fi regularly, these risks are very real. The training benefits me by helping me recognize common cyber threats. It also builds practical digital safety skills that are useful beyond school and in future workplaces.

Okan K.
OK
IT Manager
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review

"Simple, effective security awareness training for everyday users"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

It’s simple to use and the training and phishing tests feel realistic and actually help people learn without being boring.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

Some of the training videos can feel a bit repetitive and longer than they need to be.

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

It helps reduce risky user behavior by teaching staff how to spot phishing and security threats, which saves us time and lowers our security risk.

Verified User in Higher Education
AH
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review

"Plentiful Training Library Makes for a Great Resource"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

The library of options is plentiful. For an organization like our own, this makes it easy to find the right training materials for each scenario. We were able to easily roll it out to our users and make it part of annual plans.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

There is room for improvement in how KnowBe4 handles SSO integrations.

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

It has helped us make our users more aware. The more we can teach and train our users, the less likely they are to fall victim to cybersecurity pitfalls.

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

"Easy to Use and User-Friendly"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

It's ease of use. Users have no issues taking training and I have no issues setting up the training. The API use is also great allowing for automated workflows.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

I cannot think of anything negative to say about knowbe4.

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

Employees are being cautious of emails coming into their inbox and they are learning more and more about the malicious signs of incoming emails and such.

Verified User in Higher Education
AH
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review

"The Real Real About KB4"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

What I like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training is the ability to training staff on real-world phishing scams that have actually happened.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

The good modules or training materials are often not on my subscription list.

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

Keeping the click rate of real phishing scams and malicious links down within my organization.

Frank M.
FM
Assistant Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review

"An excellent, innovative, and robust training platform for a decade (and counting)"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

KnowBe4's content is always fresh and engaging. It presents useful information to users at any level of tech literacy (and this is coming from a user at a university, where levels of tech literacy are all over the map!). Their Learning Management System has capabilities that others have been unable to match, and continue to impress with their flexibility and openness to experiment with creative ways to stretch their boundaries. They have been a true partner for us in delivering all manner of organizational training.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

Admittedly, my organization is trying to make KnowBe4's platform do things it was not necessarily intended to do. Some of our organizational tech debt has spilled over in this context, and that has made it challenging to make full use of KnowBe4 in the ways we would want. That said, they have never said 'no' to our out-of-the-box ideas, it just takes a while for feature requests to manifest as supported capabilities.

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

KnowBe4 is the primary delivery mechanism for all manner of required employee training. For cybersecurity awareness, we use the content that KnowBe4 provides (and it is great!). For other operational areas, we upload our own content (SCORM packages) and leverage KnowBe4 as the Learning Management System for delivery. It's ability to read Active Directory and understand the employee/supervisor relationship makes escalation notifications (when people haven't completed the training yet and the deadline approaches) is a game-changer for us, as the other systems we have used in the past didn't have that capability and those escalations had to be handled manually.

Verified User in Higher Education
UH
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review

"Easy Security Your Staff Will Love"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

Short and to the point, relevent training that allows the user to be informed about current security issues that he/she may encounter not only at work but also at home. It is current, you won't be wondering how old the video is. It is easy to understand. From working in IT with the administrator of the software, he comment on how easy it is to deploy the training to our staff and students. The training not only includes the videos but also fake "tests" that make sure users are learning from the training they complete. This is done on a monthly to quarterly basis. Since it is intergrated into our email software, we are able to use it daily.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

I have no complaints or dislikes about this software.

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

We have had some attempts on our organization from the outside to hack in. All through fake emails that looked very legit; even appeared to be from a coworker. We were able to remove that email from user accounts so that it wasn't opened. Find out who had opened and clicked the links. Actions were taken from there to not only change those users passwords but also be on alert that our network could be compromised. Thankfully it was not. I give credit to the individuals that completed the Security Awareness Training for recognizing what was taking place and to the software to allow our IT department to do what was needed to stop the threat.

Humayoon S.
HS
Team Lead Cyber Security
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review
Rating Updated ()

"Our staff went from zero to hero in cybersecurity self defence"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

So easy to manage and start campaigns, and makes learning interactive and fun.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

I did not find anything that I dislike about it, however they should consider creating web browser extension to find phishing links in real time as they teach

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

Our team was target of phishing attack and this product helped teach them how to be safe

Brandon P.
BP
Social Media Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review

"Great learning tool"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

I like the ability to give users training on what issues are out there and to help them avoid the pitfalls.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

I would say the knowledge on my part not knowing what all knowbe4 has to offer.

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

Makes our college more aware of what current threats are and what to watch out for.

RT
Cyber Security Manager
Higher Education
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review

"KnowBe4 is a great tool"

What do you like best about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

The content is complete and entertaining. The options for our end users are wide.

What do you dislike about KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training?

Convincing our end users to actually do their training assignments on time.

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

We need to supply yearly Cyber Security training to our users and verify completion. This product fulfills those needs.