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Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training vs Sophos Phish Threat comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.7
Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training boosts ROI with time savings, fewer incidents, and enhanced team preparedness against threats.
Sentiment score
4.8
Sophos Phish Threat provides ROI by educating users, reducing ransomware incidents, and enhancing organizational security through training.
From a value perspective, the combination of managed training, phishing simulation, and automated administration made it a worthwhile investment.
Securuty solution architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I would say that per client, it adds in a couple hundred pounds worth of revenue every month.
Director at SafetyNet It Ltd
I should always double-check the trainings and phishing simulations before I administer them, as I may not personally want to use those trainings.
President / Cybersecurity Consultant at a tech company with 1-10 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
9.0
Huntress Managed Security's customer service is highly rated for its responsiveness, live chat, and effective support, scoring 8-10/10.
Sentiment score
6.1
Sophos offers excellent customer support, praised for responsive, expert service and enhanced by Cyberoam staff integration, often resolving issues efficiently.
They are super fast and responsive because I have live chat.
Cybersecurity Admin at a pharma/biotech company with 201-500 employees
I would give them a 10 out of 10 rating for customer support.
Securuty solution architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We had a significant amount of onboarding and help, which was very thorough.
Director at SafetyNet It Ltd
They call whenever you have an incident and keep calling to assist until you solve the issue.
Supervisor, Infraestructura Information Technology at Refineria Dominicana de Petroleo
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.8
Huntress Managed Security excels in scalable deployments, despite backend limitations, and is praised across public and private sectors.
Sentiment score
6.1
Sophos Phish Threat is highly scalable, offering seamless user additions and effective performance across various organization sizes with cloud support.
The scalability of Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training is unlimited.
Director at SafetyNet It Ltd
The scalability of Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training is very good.
President / Cybersecurity Consultant at a tech company with 1-10 employees
Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training is highly scalable.
Cybersecurity Admin at a pharma/biotech company with 201-500 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
9.0
Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training is praised for its stability, reliability, seamless operation, and effectiveness in security programs.
Sentiment score
7.3
Sophos Phish Threat is stable, reliable, with minimal issues reported, but some users suggest potential for improvement.
I have not noticed any downtime.
Technical Account Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Huntress Managed Security needs more languages, AI modules, better phishing difficulty, customization, reporting, and integration improvements.
Sophos Phish Threat needs improvements in pricing, security, user interface, training, integrations, current simulations, and language options.
The existing complexity is partly because the product wasn't built from the ground up by Huntress.
Business Owner at Royal IT
Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training could be improved by varying the domains that you send from.
Director at SafetyNet It Ltd
KnowBe4 and Infosec Institute have hundreds of training modules, whereas Huntress had approximately 50 training videos last I checked.
President / Cybersecurity Consultant at a tech company with 1-10 employees
The catalog is very small compared with products such as Terranova or KnowBe4.
Supervisor, Infraestructura Information Technology at Refineria Dominicana de Petroleo
 

Setup Cost

Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training is cost-efficient, competitively priced, and offers excellent value with transparent pricing for all enterprises.
Sophos Phish Threat's tiered pricing is competitive, with annual subscriptions preferred, covering user numbers and firewall integration.
You can go in at many different rates to suit what your customer needs, which is from small to really big enterprises.
Director at SafetyNet It Ltd
Huntress is willing to discuss the price for those interested in their entire stack.
Business Owner at Royal IT
Regarding pricing for Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training, I would say it is cost-efficient.
Technical Account Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The cost of Sophos Phish Threat is very reasonable for customers as they charge based on usage only.
Senior Information Security Analyst at channelnext
 

Valuable Features

Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training enhances security with automated tasks, story-driven content, expert curation, and effective phishing defenses.
Sophos Phish Threat excels with ease of use, effective training, scalable deployment, detailed reports, and strong technical support.
This solution helps train users on what to look for in security threats, contributing to the prevention of user errors that may lead to breaches.
Business Owner at Royal IT
Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training has positively impacted my organization as we can see a decline from those clients with incidents regarding cybersecurity.
Director at SafetyNet It Ltd
In terms of the phishing simulations, if someone clicks, they are automatically assigned the relevant training for that specific simulation, which I think is quite clever.
Technical Account Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The integration with Sophos Central benefits us for the management of the phishing campaign by being very user-friendly.
Supervisor, Infraestructura Information Technology at Refineria Dominicana de Petroleo
 

Categories and Ranking

Huntress Managed Security A...
Ranking in Security Awareness Training
2nd
Average Rating
9.2
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Sophos Phish Threat
Ranking in Security Awareness Training
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Security Awareness Training category, the mindshare of Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training is 3.9%, down from 4.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sophos Phish Threat is 3.9%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Security Awareness Training Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training3.9%
Sophos Phish Threat3.9%
Other92.2%
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.
JL
Supervisor, Infraestructura Information Technology at Refineria Dominicana de Petroleo
Customer support excels with timely responses and valuable assistance
Some of the best features with Sophos Phish Threat are good, but it has some limits. For instance, if you send an attachment to target the user with a macro, it doesn't work very well because by default Outlook disables opening macro files. Word macro files open in read-only mode. It has some false positives, such as when the user opened the file. We had good experience, and based on our three years of use, the users responded well. The videos are animated, and users prefer them, similar to our other applications for training in other areas. The integration with Sophos Central benefits us for the management of the phishing campaign by being very user-friendly. We used the customizable phishing emails with Sophos Phish Threat. We customized the template and modified it so we can phish our users. They are very customizable. The pricing and licensing for Sophos Phish Threat is good compared to other products.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
12%
University
9%
Insurance Company
9%
Construction Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
15%
Outsourcing Company
8%
University
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise2
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training?
I do not see anything specific for improvement for Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training per se, as I think it is a good solution to have. If I had to think of one small area for improvement...
What is your primary use case for Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training?
My main use case for Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training is educating our cybersecurity teams on the utilization of Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training and also general awareness ...
What needs improvement with Sophos Phish Threat?
Sophos Phish Threat is a good product, but it has some limitations. We prefer Spanish language content, and the video selection has limitations. The catalog is very small compared with products suc...
What is your primary use case for Sophos Phish Threat?
I had experience with other products before KnowBe4, specifically we had Sophos Phish Threat for three years, but the catalog of training, video, and simulated phishing has some limits. Last Februa...
What advice do you have for others considering Sophos Phish Threat?
I rate Sophos Phish Threat eight out of ten due to some limitations, specifically the limited training catalog and the need for more trainings in local languages, particularly Spanish. A bigger cou...
 

Also Known As

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Phish Threat
 

Overview

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