KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training vs. Mimecast Engage Awareness Training

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training

1,089 Reviews and Ratings

Mimecast Engage Awareness Training

22 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training	Score9.4 out of 10	N/A	KnowBe4 is a security awareness and compliance training and simulated social engineering product. It is used by organizations worldwide to strengthen their security culture and reduce human risk. The product includes a comprehensive suite of awareness and compliance training, real-time user coaching, AI-powered simulated social engineering, crowdsourced anti-phishing defense and an AI suite that enhances human risk management through personalized training and automation. With…	$0.95 per month (billed annually) per seat
Mimecast Engage Awareness Training	Score7.7 out of 10	N/A	Mimecast Awareness Training equips security teams to identify and reduce human-driven risk across their entire organization. The security awareness and human risk management solution works to continuously inspire awareness, transform behavior, and reduce the likelihood of security incidents caused by human error.	N/A

Pricing

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training

Mimecast Engage Awareness Training

Silver: $0.95
per month (billed annually) per seat
Gold: $1.10
per month (billed annually) per seat
Platinum: $1.25
per month (billed annually) per seat
Diamond: $1.70
per month (billed annually) per seat

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Pricing Offerings
KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training	Mimecast Engage Awareness Training
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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	KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training	Mimecast Engage Awareness Training
Considered Both Products	KnowBe4 Verified User Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Initially we were using Mimecast Awareness Training. Mimecast was totally different from KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training. They do not have a proper setup for the awareness training. The training video quality and category was very poor. In Mimecast, you will get only human … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training We have used Mimecast Awareness Training platform in the past but hit quite a few bumps in the road during integration and deployment. We had to submit a few bug reports to their support team just to get some of their features working. We do use them as our email filtering … Incentivized Helpful? Travis Wallace Cyber Security Account Executive in Sales at RevelSec (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training I haven't used Mimecast Awareness Training before but my company left MAT and moved to KnowBe4 and hasn't looked back. From what I was told, the Mimecast solution was lacking in content and quality questions and answers. Now Arctic Wolf just came out with their own Awareness … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training One of the other platforms may have some features where they excel. This is to be expected. But there is no other platform that covers all the topics and most of them very well, as KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training does. Also there is no other platform that offers such a huge … Incentivized Helpful? Johann Einarsson Global IT Infrastructure Manager in Information Technology at AAK (Food Production, 1001-5000 employees) Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training KnowBe4 had better options in Phisihng templates and a very good option with content in training Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training I like having the training bundled with phishing simulations. Using different products for these functions does not allow for automated remediation training. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training has a lot of good features that Mimecast was missing. Mimecast does not have a proper inventory of videos like KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training. Mimecast does not have animation based videos. Most of the users of my company like animated … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training We prefer KnowBe4 from a granularity perspective as well as a simplicity perspective. I do sometimes like the Mimecast training better, but overall KnowBe4 is better for me Incentivized Helpful? Adam Traylor Director Information Security in Information Technology at Millennium Print Group (Media Production, 1001-5000 employees) Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training KnowBe4 has the most diverse feature set compared to the others. I also chose KnowBe4 over others due to the PhishER capabilities. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training I'm personally not involved with the Mimecast trainings but I don't believe they have enough info/materials compared to KnowBe4. Incentivized Helpful? Shubham sahu Security Consultant in Information Technology at Planful Inc. (Information Technology & Services, 201-500 employees) Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training content and library of KnowBe4 is great Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training We selected KnowBe4 because of the value of the money spent. No one else has the breadth and depth of training, testing, and knowledge articles, as well as a first-class support program to go with it. We would pick KnowBe4 over any other product still today, four years after … Incentivized Helpful? Victor Castro Director Information Technology in Information Technology at Ogden CAP Properties (Real Estate, 201-500 employees) Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training KnowBe4 is a more mature product with greater inventory of training materials. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Barracuda's email's tricked more of our users and looked more believable. Since Barracuda is at no extra cost with their email filtering, we have decided this will be our primary solution. Their training is less polished and effective. Others do not have content or management … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training KnowBe4 showed superior content and integration with our technology stack. Their overall platform is easily configurable and doesn't tie into an SEG as most of the other offerings do. Allowing us to be flexible with our use case and continue to train no matter our selection of … Incentivized Helpful? Grant Walsh Director IT Infrastructure Operations in Information Technology at CPI Security (Consumer Services, 501-1000 employees) Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Mimecast just didn't stack up in terms of the type of communication that was easy to use for our end users. KnowBe4 was clearer and more easily imported into our LMS. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training We found KnowBe4 to be the best match for our needs and it covered all of our requirements. The competition did not have some basic needs like sending a security training at an exact time on a certain day, instead, we were expected to accept having Sat/Sun off days, when we … Incentivized Helpful? Andy Maxwell Director of IS in Information Technology at Pyrotek Inc. (Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering, 1001-5000 employees) Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training More training materials and better phishing campaigns. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training We performed a bakeoff against Proofpoint, Mime cast, and KnowBe4. KnowBe4 had more content and flexibility to automate processes. The PhishER tool was a great addition that we didn't even know we had and has improved our security operations significantly also. KnowBe4 had a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training It honestly just came down to the breadth of content. KnowBe4 just has more content than its competitors. Incentivized Helpful? Gagan Naz Security Analyst in Information Technology at Sigma Healthcare (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1001-5000 employees) Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training KnowBe4 has the most diversified content for video-based/interactive training. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Unfortunately, I did not have time to explore the other solutions, I saw a couple of demos and met KnowBe4 and I was sold on the product particularly because it addressed some gaps we had identified. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training provided a wider variety of training materials and topics than other vendors. The management capabilities and flexibility in communicating with the trainees were deciding factors. Cost per user was a key contributor to the purchasing decision … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training Only upside was the training videos were very well received. Other than that, phishing training, phishing reporting, user management, user risk measurements/profiling and tie-ins to email's being reported (e.g. PhishER) were greatly lacking. Incentivized Helpful?	Mimecast Verified User Chose Mimecast Engage Awareness Training Mimecast's content is much higher quality. KnowBe4's sales tactics are much more pushy. Customer service has been better with Mimecast in general, though Mimecast's UX/UI is a lot more confusing a less user-friendly to navigate than KnowBe4. It is difficult to group individuals … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Mimecast Engage Awareness Training Highly engaging, short and sharp and relevant. Other solutions we found to be nonengaging and not suitable for Australian audiences. The training was to long in length and employees would often just avoid the training all together. Mimecast is the exact opposite of this, no … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Mimecast Engage Awareness Training We looked at KnowBe4 on a number of occasions, but the lack of integration and costings made it a difficult sell at board level for us. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Mimecast Engage Awareness Training I would simply say Mimecast Engage is less robust than KnowBe4. Mimecast Engage is more user friendly and simpler to use but KnowBe4 has more functionality and content. Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training

Mimecast Engage Awareness Training

Comparison of Security features of KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training and Mimecast Engage Awareness Training
Feature	KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training 8.8 303 Ratings	Mimecast Engage Awareness Training 7.9 6 Ratings
Single sign-on capability	9.6269 Ratings	7.96 Ratings
Role-based user permissions	8.0293 Ratings	8.01 Ratings

Comparison of Security Awareness Training features of KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training and Mimecast Engage Awareness Training
Feature	KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training 8.3 331 Ratings	Mimecast Engage Awareness Training 5.9 6 Ratings
Training Content Library	8.9328 Ratings	6.86 Ratings
Multilingual Training Content	9.3181 Ratings	3.53 Ratings
Training Gamification	8.4271 Ratings	7.01 Ratings
Industry-Specific Security Training	6.2289 Ratings	3.44 Ratings
Individualized Security Training Plans	7.6280 Ratings	6.45 Ratings
Phishing Simulations	9.5326 Ratings	7.15 Ratings
Security Reporting	8.4319 Ratings	7.46 Ratings
Integration with Security Tech Stack	8.1187 Ratings	5.65 Ratings

User Ratings
	KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training	Mimecast Engage Awareness Training
Likelihood to Recommend	9.5 (677 ratings)	7.8 (6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.4 (53 ratings)	5.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.4 (164 ratings)	6.0 (1 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (18 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Performance	8.8 (19 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (258 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.8 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	8.5 (14 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.5 (21 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Configurability	8.4 (13 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	8.1 (39 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.9 (7 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	8.4 (19 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Professional Services	8.9 (12 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.7 (15 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	8.3 (14 ratings)	- (0 ratings)