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"CybeReady's 'phishing' emails manipulate you to open an email. If you do open the email, you are forwarded to a tip that explains how you should behave and how to recognize a phishing email. This is one of the main features of the training provided.""All of CybeReady's features are valuable. They work together and complement each other. The campaigns, and the training behind the specific campaigns, are the starting point. But the Continuous Awareness Bites program is also very important. They share what the correct behavior should have been for our users who clicked on a link or downloaded an attachment during a phishing campaign.""The product automatically adapts to users and how adept they are at spotting phishing emails. If somebody is doing very well and is not clicking on the phishing simulation emails, then it will send them emails that are harder to spot.""CybeReady has this uncanny ability to fit its simulations to reality. The simulations that CybeReady prepares are refreshed on a monthly basis... They could be news-related, for example, related to COVID, or elections. They might be related to the time of the year, such as taxes or bonus payments and the like... It's evolving to what it's seeing out there, but in a good way.""Overall, it broadens the way people engage with security across the board because they are used to being told off and that they are not doing the right sort of things. Whereas, CybeReady really helped move that conversation forward into a positive lens, allowing people to see how they can take part and their role within security. Also, that it's okay, because this is training, a learning point, how you can continue, how you can cope, and how you move forward. This really helps build people's confidence in recognizing phishing, understanding what it is, and how to cope with it, all of which are important."

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"There are many valuable features. It's already deployed in the cloud, and you don't have to install anything. You just upload your users to the cloud and tweak something if needed. You can whitelist some servers to work with this properly. When everything is ready, you can start using the platform and its many automated features.""Their customizable nature allows us to create scenarios that closely resemble real-world phishing attempts, making them highly relatable to our end users.""The main thing is the overall report card. We get to tell the percentages of users who click on links and who don't click on links. We also get an overall score or risk score from them, which also helps us."

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"The area where we could probably use more attention is the involvement of CybeReady with us. It would help if a technical account manager were more actively reaching out and making sure that we are using the tool to its full potential.""One point that CybeReady could improve on is... the people assigned to each client to help the client correctly interpret the KPIs. In our case, we were not so happy with the person that was assigned to us. She didn't provide much more for us than we saw ourselves.""One area that might be improved is making their emails more visually attractive to make them more convincing. It might depend on the email relay in the organization. Maybe it's cutting out some of the features that come with the email. I don't know if it's their problem or our problem, but sometimes the emails don't look convincing enough.""We have the generic reporting that comes out so we can download that at any time or at the end of the three month campaign. So, we have two generic reports. If we could section up the data in multiple, different ways, then we could create a report from that instead of just those two options. That would be helpful.""CybeReady is still getting used to working with really big companies, which is the category that we are in."

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"It could be more localized for Ukrainian users. This platform is international, and it has a lot of material in different languages, but not in Ukrainian and Russian languages. There's plenty of different content updated regularly for English, French, and German users. They have a lot more information, and Ukrainian users also want more.""It can be more interactive with users. We want to put the users in different scenarios and let them make decisions. For example, instead of making users go through a video and then asking questions, it can have a video where they click on the scenarios and have to make decisions. It can maybe have something like a live simulation. It would be nice for users.""Enhancing the product's emotional intelligence, particularly by providing training content tailored to specific audiences, is an area for improvement."

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  • "The pricing is fair."
  • "You pay a yearly fee and they're a fairly good value."
  • "The pricing is very competitive."
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  • "I don't know the cost, but I believe we are paying yearly. We did like a three-year or five-year contract. I am not aware of any extra costs in addition to a standard licensing fee."
  • "Licensing is paid on a yearly basis. You can go to the official site to check their approximate pricing. It's based on the number of users or staff. It can vary from country to country, but for Ukraine, it works as it's stated on the site."
  • "I rate the product pricing as four out of ten."
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    Overview

    Security training should not add work to your security team, and should not burden your employees! CybeReady offers the only fully autonomous training platform that makes Security Awareness Training easy and effective for enterprises. Built by cybersecurity training experts, CybeReady’s autonomous learning platform creates an engaging learning experience for employees and enables organizations to run successful and frictionless training. CybeReady’s solution has proven to change employee behavior towards cyber attacks without burdening InfoSec teams. It has been deployed by hundreds of global enterprises and currently trains millions of employees in 38 languages to avoid cyber attacks. Visit: CybeReady.com

    Old school Security Awareness Training is static. It’s a one-time event without follow-up. KnowBe4's Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training starts with a baseline test to show the actual Phish-prone percentage of your users. Then it steps users through effective, interactive, on-demand browser-based training. As step three, you send frequent simulated phishing attacks to your employees to reinforce the training. This last feature, frequent simulated phishing attacks (we recommend at the very least once a month) really creates a change in behavior.

    Sample Customers
    Teva Pharmaceuticals, RBS, Skoda, SentinelOne, Avid, Payoneer, SodaStream, StitchFix, NatWest, DHL, 
    West Aurora Public School District 129
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company11%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Construction Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company12%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Construction Company8%
    Government7%
    Company Size
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    Small Business35%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise51%
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    Small Business31%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise48%
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    CybeReady is ranked 5th in Security Awareness Training while KnowBe4 is ranked 2nd in Security Awareness Training with 3 reviews. CybeReady is rated 9.2, while KnowBe4 is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of CybeReady writes "Allows us to see the effects of what simulated phishing can do". On the other hand, the top reviewer of KnowBe4 writes "An integrated platform for security awareness training with many valuable features". CybeReady is most compared with , whereas KnowBe4 is most compared with Proofpoint Email Protection, Terranova Security, Barracuda PhishLine, Arctic Wolf Managed Security Awareness and SANS Security Awareness.

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