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Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training vs Proofpoint’s ZenGuide comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 18, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Huntress Managed Security A...
Ranking in Security Awareness Training
3rd
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.1
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Proofpoint’s ZenGuide
Ranking in Security Awareness Training
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
2.7
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Security Awareness Training category, the mindshare of Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training is 4.0%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Proofpoint’s ZenGuide is 7.0%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Security Awareness Training Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Proofpoint’s ZenGuide7.0%
Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training4.0%
Other89.0%
Security Awareness Training
 

Featured Reviews

Daniel Angell - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at SafetyNet It Ltd
Training has reduced phishing incidents and builds user responsibility across our clients
I can give you a quick specific example of how I use Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training with my clients or internally; we deploy it internally as well, as we are an IT company. It is really important that we ourselves and our engineers can spot the difference, because just because we are IT literate does not mean that we can always spot the difference. Or we can spot the difference, but the hesitation to click on something and just check what comes in matters. We have had customers experience significant breaches where they sent a lot of money or information or had loss of business due to these types of attacks. Avoiding that is where I would say we have had the most impact, seeing a reduction in those types of incidents happening. Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training has positively impacted my organization as we can see a decline from those clients with incidents regarding cybersecurity. There are a lot fewer tickets about suspicious emails, and a lot more of a positive understanding from users about what an attack looks like. In terms of tools for us, it helps our relationship with customers. We can send them reports that are good criteria and good information we can give them to show how we are protecting them. This adds value there. Using Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training alongside the other Huntress products, ITDR and EDR, is beneficial. It is a good product that is easy to deploy alongside them. I think the best feature of Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training is the fact that it runs itself. Many IT companies want to offer these services, but they do not really have experience or they do not have the time and energy to keep the quality going, or you do put the effort in and it becomes unprofitable. Huntress recommends the courses and sets the criteria for you and it can all be managed. I really appreciate how the emails come in and look current and realistic, not obvious spam. I appreciate that the course content will change depending on how much a user has failed. If they just clicked on the email or entered information, it will tell them what they can do better next time and give them extra training. You do not have to worry about that; it is all automatic. It is also made in such a way that it is keeping up to date, I believe with information from Huntress's SOC team. The up-to-date content reflects what people are seeing in the wild, so you know you are getting really new content.
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Project Manager at Fives Syleps
Has helped run awareness campaigns and phishing simulations but needs better multilingual support and user-level tracking
They have made good improvements, but there are still some limitations. For example, we have many entities and want each entity to have their own statistics. Additionally, in the fake phishing part, there is not one type for one language per campaign, as we have many languages. For running fake phishing campaigns, we are obliged to create specific campaigns for specific languages, and consolidation is not easy. It helps us make awareness activities, but it is not easy to evaluate the cybersecurity score for each user. If I take one user and compare their status six months ago to today, I want to know if their maturity score has increased or not. Proofpoint's ZenGuide has some limitations in that aspect. This function would be very important if implemented. It gives global statistics which is good, but sometimes we want to focus on each user, going through the company and groups. I want to know what a user's level was six months or one year ago compared to today across different cybersecurity activities in Proofpoint's ZenGuide. This includes monthly awareness, cybersecurity training, fake phishing campaigns, communication, and reporting malicious or suspicious emails. I want to have one score combining all these activities for each user to determine their global level. Having multi-language fake phishing campaigns would be beneficial. Currently, it is just one campaign per language, making consolidation difficult. In the future, for one campaign, the template should correctly assign the language type depending on the language used by the user.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I rate the solution nine out of ten."
"I appreciate the interactive and engaging style of Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training."
"Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training has positively impacted my organization as we can see a decline from those clients with incidents regarding cybersecurity."
"I like that it provides a customizable learning pathway, allowing me to both use preset tracks and customize them if I wish."
"Most valuable is the SSO integration with our AD, so the users can employ our federation service to log in."
"I would definitely recommend Proofpoint's ZenGuide to others, as I think the branding and the ability to add your own branding on all different avenues, through the email communications, training, simulations, and everything, is probably the biggest advantage I've seen so far."
"Proofpoint's ZenGuide analytics provides many useful reports that we can access on the dashboard."
 

Cons

"Some of the trainings can be quite silly, or I may not want to administer those trainings."
"It is somewhat confusing at first, especially for onboarding."
"It is somewhat confusing at first, especially for onboarding. The existing complexity is partly because the product wasn't built from the ground up by Huntress, which might contribute to certain elements lacking Huntress's typical simplicity."
"Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training could be improved by varying the domains that you send from."
"We would like to create reports for local IT leaders in a different way, more suitable for upper management."
"For running fake phishing campaigns, we are obliged to create specific campaigns for specific languages, and consolidation is not easy."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"received very good pricing, as we are also working with the Proofpoint spam appliances."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
26%
Insurance Company
16%
Healthcare Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training is fine. The pricing was clear and the RRPs were clear. I was made aware of all the prices goi...
What needs improvement with Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training?
Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training could be improved by varying the domains that you send from. After a few attempts, you can work out that they are all coming from the same few domains. ...
What is your primary use case for Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training?
My main use case for Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training is providing security awareness training to a few small to medium enterprises who needed some coverage against social engineering a...
What needs improvement with Wombat Security Education Platform?
They have made good improvements, but there are still some limitations. For example, we have many entities and want each entity to have their own statistics. Additionally, in the fake phishing part...
What is your primary use case for Wombat Security Education Platform?
Proofpoint's ZenGuide is a solution that we have been working with for a long time. We use it each month for awareness, DMARC, and email security. Proofpoint's ZenGuide is used for the awareness co...
What advice do you have for others considering Wombat Security Education Platform?
We were trying to make comparisons between solutions to determine which would work better for our group. We have not yet used CyberGuru extensively; it was just for testing purposes. The metrics we...
 

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Proofpoint Security Awareness Training, Wombat Security Education Platform
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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Carnegie Mellon University, Royal Bank of Scotland, City of Garland, Texas
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