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Living Security vs Proofpoint

Looking for a Proofpoint security awareness alternative?See risk across your whole stack.

Proofpoint ZenGuide, formerly Proofpoint Security Awareness Training, lives inside an email security suite. Living Security scores human and AI agent risk from every tool you run, including Proofpoint, and acts on it.

Security teams at

  • Unilever
  • Northwestern Mutual
  • Merck
  • Lockheed Martin
  • Ford
  • Target

74.8%

Of risky behavior comes from 10% of the workforce (2026 Human Risk Report)

68%

Less time in a risky state after targeted action

4.9M

Identities in the research behind the platform

Leader

Named Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Human Risk Management Solutions, Q3 2024.

A fair comparison

Where Proofpoint is strong, and where we differ.

Proofpoint

Where Proofpoint is strong

  • Email threat data at very large scale.
  • Awareness training and AI-guided simulations bundled with its email and data protection suite.
  • Human risk views that correlate behavior, role, access and attack exposure.

Signals beyond one vendor

The Human Risk Index joins identity, web, DLP, endpoint and email signals, from Proofpoint and from the rest of your stack, into one 0–1,000 score for people and AI agents.

Vendor-agnostic, built for the enterprise stack

Signals come in from the vendors you already run, and actions go out to them: Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint, Netskope, Zscaler, ServiceNow, Jira, Slack and Teams. If a tool in your stack can take an action, a playbook can trigger it.

Every channel attackers use

Simulations across email, QR codes, SMS, voice and calendar invites, with conversational SMS and voice, aimed by your risk data.

Chosen by the enterprise

Security teams at Unilever, Northwestern Mutual, Merck, Lockheed Martin, Ford and Target run Living Security.

Validated by Forrester

Named Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Human Risk Management Solutions, Q3 2024.

Capability by capability

Living Security vs Proofpoint.

Capability comparison of Living Security, Proofpoint
CapabilityLiving SecurityHuman risk management + AIProofpointEmail security suite
Primary approachAI-native HRM platformAwareness training (ZenGuide) inside an email security suite
What the risk score is built fromHundreds of signals from your own stackBehavior, role, access, phishing and attack exposure (Human Risk Explorer)
Acting on the riskNudges, training or access changes; you set approvalsTraining and AI-guided simulations
Phishing simulationEmail, QR, SMS, voice and calendar, aimed by your signalsAI-guided phishing simulations
Training contentRole- and risk-based, Content Studio, CyberEscape OnlineZenGuide awareness training
Works with what you already runKeep what you own: SIEM, EDR, identity, DLP and email signals in; actions out to your toolsSignals pre-integrated within the Proofpoint suite
Where each one leadsEvery kind of action, aimed by one risk view across vendorsEmail security, with awareness training in the same suite

StrengthPartial or developingLimited or not offered

Source: each vendor's public website and documentation, accessed October 24, 2026. Ratings are Living Security's assessment.

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Keep what you own

No rip-and-replace.

Run Proofpoint for email security? Keep it. Proofpoint threat and training data flow into Living Security as signals.

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“Living Security is already incorporated, it already has all the connections to all of our security tools… [I] start enforcing different policies and different security controls using technology that I already own.”
Genady Vishnevetsky, Chief Information Security Officer, Stewart Title

Questions.

Is Living Security an alternative to Proofpoint security awareness training?
Yes. Living Security covers security awareness training and phishing simulation, and scores human risk from your whole stack, not one vendor’s data.
Can we keep Proofpoint for email security?
Yes. Proofpoint is one of the integrations: its threat and training data become signals in the Human Risk Index.
How is Living Security priced?
Pricing is quoted per organization, based on the products you choose and the size of your workforce. Get a quote on the pricing page, or book a demo and we will scope it with you.
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  • 68%Less time in a risky state after targeted action (2026 Human Risk Report)
  • LeaderNamed Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Human Risk Management Solutions, Q3 2024
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