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Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training vs Proofpoint’s ZenGuide comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 18, 2026

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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
2nd
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Proofpoint’s ZenGuide
Ranking in Security Awareness Training
3rd
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 November 2026, in the Security Awareness Training category, the mindshare of Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training is 3.7%, down from 4.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Proofpoint’s ZenGuide is 5.3%, down from 8.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Security Awareness Training Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training3.7%
Proofpoint’s ZenGuide5.3%
Other91.0%
Security Awareness Training
 

Featured Reviews

Vsadalaga Sadalga - PeerSpot reviewer
Soc Analyst at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Training has reduced phishing clicks and now improves reporting on real social engineering risks
The best features Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training offers for me are the phishing simulations, security awareness training content, easy campaign management, and reporting. The reporting is especially useful because it helps me track user behavior and identify areas where additional training is needed. The reports from Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training are fairly easy to generate and understand, so sharing them with the team or leadership is straightforward. I use the results to identify common gaps and adjust future phishing simulations and awareness training accordingly. Overall, Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training is easy to use and provides a good combination of training, phishing simulations, and reporting. It gives me a simple way to improve user awareness without adding much administrative effort. Regarding Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training's AI capabilities, the AI output has been generally accurate and reliable for supporting security awareness training. I still prefer to review the AI-generated content before using it in a training or phishing campaign, but overall, it provides useful and relevant results. I use the managed training feature in Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training. It helps keep training consistent and up to date by providing regular awareness content and covering current phishing and social engineering techniques. It also reduces the effort needed to manage training manually. Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training is quite effective because the training is provided close to the risky behavior, which makes the lesson more relevant. For example, if a user clicks a simulated phishing link, they can immediately receive guidance explaining the warning signs and why they should have checked before clicking. I use Huntress's lightweight LMS. My experience with creating and uploading custom training is positive. The process is straightforward, and it is easy to add organization-specific content when I need to address particular security awareness topics. It is fairly easy to assign behavior-based tasks targeting risky behaviors in my organization with Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training. I can target specific risky behaviors and assign relevant training without much manual effort. The main thing is making sure the tasks are relevant to the user's behavior, so the training is effective. I have used the Threat Simulator feature in Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training. It reinforces learning by giving users realistic examples of threats such as phishing and social engineering scenarios. It helps users understand the risks in a practical way and encourages them to be more cautious with suspicious emails and links.
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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

"Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training effectively targets human risk with just-in-time training for risky behaviors, and users will receive training videos within minutes after clicking on a phishing simulation."
"Since starting with Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training, I have seen benefits, including that people are aware of the different kinds of attacks; since it is managed, we do not have much to do, which is good so far."
"Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training has positively impacted our organization by improving employees' awareness of phishing attacks, suspicious links, and social engineering techniques, supporting proactive risk reduction through regular training and phishing simulation, helping employees make better security decisions, and strengthening our organization's overall security posture."
"Overall, having used Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training for twelve months, I think we have seen less engagement with the phishing emails post-training, which obviously means the information is going into the users."
"I like that it provides a customizable learning pathway, allowing me to both use preset tracks and customize them if I wish."
"From a value perspective, the combination of managed training, phishing simulation, and automated administration made it a worthwhile investment and helped reduce the internal resources required for our security awareness."
"Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training has positively impacted my organization as we can see a decline from those clients with incidents regarding cybersecurity."
"The training is flashy, modern, and great for learning."
"Proofpoint's ZenGuide analytics provides many useful reports that we can access on the dashboard."
"Most valuable is the SSO integration with our AD, so the users can employ our federation service to log in."
"Wombat has given our users a heightened sense of security awareness, and as a result, the click rate on phishing emails has dropped significantly."
"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."
 

Cons

"It would be nice if Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training was a little less expensive."
"It is somewhat confusing at first, especially for onboarding."
"Overall, we are satisfied with the platform, but there are a few areas that could be improved."
"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."
"I think there is room for improvement regarding the difficulty of the phishing campaigns."
"Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training could be improved by providing more realistic phishing simulations, customizable training modules, and more frequent updates on the latest cyber threats."
"One area for improvement for Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training would be adding more variety and customization into phishing simulations and training content."
"I think that the pricing and licensing of Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training is a little bit higher compared to other solutions that I have used in the past."
"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
Manufacturing Company
17%
Computer Software Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise10
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training?
Overall, the pricing and licensing for Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training were reasonable for the features provided. The setup cost was manageable, and the licensing model was straightfor...
What needs improvement with Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training?
One area for improvement for Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training would be adding more variety and customization into phishing simulations and training content. More advanced reporting and ...
What is your primary use case for Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training?
My main use case for Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training is employee security awareness training, especially phishing awareness, simulated phishing campaigns, and helping users recognize c...
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
 

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Sample Customers

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