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KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training vs. Adaptive Security

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricKnowBe4 Security Awareness Training

by KnowBe4, Inc.

Adaptive Security

by Adaptive Security

Overall rating4.64.8
Review count2,413176
Ease of use9.29.7
Ease of setup9.09.6
Quality of support9.49.8
Meets requirements9.49.6
NPS79.57393589.772727
Small Business13.0%10.5%
Mid-Market65.7%73.7%
Enterprise21.3%15.8%
Total page views4,6282,124
Total LLM citations34,6589,251

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training

KnowBe4 is the world's largest security awareness and compliance training library, empowering organizations to transform employees into a strong line of defense against cyber threats. Our comprehensive agentic AI platform creates an adaptive defense layer that mitigates risks associated with human error—a significant vulnerability in cybersecurity. The KnowBe4 platform combines AI-powered personalized learning experiences with automated phishing simulations that adapt to individual user behavior, addressing specific areas of vulnerability.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Training
  • Engaging Content
  • Easy Setup
  • Educational
  • Aware

Adaptive Security

Adaptive is the human security platform for the AI era. AI has fundamentally changed the threat landscape. Deepfakes make social engineering more convincing, AI-powered phishing scales attacks 100x, and the rapid adoption of AI tools introduces new risks to every organization. Adaptive unifies security awareness training, agentic email security, and AI governance to secure every attack surface where work happens. Adaptive’s platform trains employees against emerging threats, stops sophisticated email attacks, and secures rogue AI usage.

Pros

  • Training
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Easy Implementation
  • Awareness Increase
  • Helpful