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SANS Workforce Security and Risk Training vs. Adaptive Security

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

MetricSANS Workforce Security and Risk Training

by SANS Institute

Adaptive Security

by Adaptive Security

Overall rating4.64.8
Review count35176
Ease of use9.19.7
Ease of setup8.99.6
Quality of support9.49.8
Meets requirements9.49.6
NPS71.42857189.772727
Small Business14.3%10.5%
Mid-Market51.4%73.7%
Enterprise34.3%15.8%
Total page views4042,124
Total LLM citations1,3989,251

SANS Workforce Security and Risk Training

SANS Institute is the world’s leading provider of cybersecurity training and certification, founded in 1989 and headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. For more than three decades, SANS has been trusted by governments, enterprises, and educational institutions around the globe to train their workforce in defending against today’s most pressing cyber threats. With a global network of instructors who are active security practitioners, SANS delivers real-world, hands-on expertise that goes far beyond theory.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Ease of Understanding
  • Training Effectiveness
  • Easy Setup
  • Training
  • Educational

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