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Hook Security

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What is Hook Security?

Hook Security aims to help to reduce the risk of security threats to companies, all while creating a positive and productive company culture.

They provide phishing testing and security awareness training designed to create a positive and healthy security culture for the company, mitigating risk while being humorous and memorable.

  • Phishing Testing

Launches monthly, automated phishing simulations that test users and provide Instant Training Moments to those who click

  • Security Awareness Training

To help establish a baseline knowledge for employees and bring new employees up to speed, the Hook Security training library contains Annual Training modules as well as monthly security Deep Dives. Topics include phishing, passwords, and working remotely.

  • Automated, Actionable Reporting

Users can monitor progress with real-time reporting with insights designed to be easy to understand and put into action.

Categories & Use Cases

Hook Security

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Hook provides a variety of templates to safely "force" client to learn to avoid phishing and scam attacks. Hook provides a safe way to train user to become more aware. We are thrilled with the improvements in "phish alert" reporting and reductions in "clicks" o phish and malware due to employee learning.

Pros

  • Hooks make it easy to generate the reports and gives a through breakdown of campaign details.
  • Users are become more aware of potential threats and avoid them.
  • It integrated easily with O365 deployment.

Cons

  • It would be nice to be able to customize templates even more and brand them.
  • Automatic course enrollment for new employees should be simplified.
  • Interface could be more streamlined.

Most Important Features

  • We are now able to do it regularly and users have become aware of potential threat and avoid them.
  • The reporting makes it easy for us to identify the things.
  • Users on-boarding training, annual cyber security training.

Return on Investment

  • Ease of enrollment for training new users.
  • Monthly email campaign to test our users.
  • Getting clients to address the fundamentals of cyber security in short and capture behavioral data.

Other Software Used

Trend Micro Cloud One - Application Security, Forcepoint Email Security, OneLogin by One Identity