Buyer's guide
Choose the right Human Risk Management platform.
Moving from security awareness training to Human Risk Management helps you quantify risk, make better security decisions, and turn employees into a proactive line of defense. This guide shows what the platform must have.
Named Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Human Risk Management Solutions, Q3 2024.
Used by security teams at Unilever, Merck, Ford and Northwestern Mutual.
Security teams at
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What's inside
Three areas every HRM platformmust get right.
The Human Risk Management Buyer's Guide highlights three key areas, and the elements in each, that every robust Human Risk Management platform must have.
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Quantify human risk
Turn behavior from the security tools you already run into an objective, data-driven view of where risk sits.
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Engage the human
Reach people with risk-based interventions, training nudges and policy change, where they already work.
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Measure behavior change
Show employees, managers and executives that behavior is changing, with scorecards and reporting.
What you'll walk away with
A checklist you cantake into every demo.
Use it to compare platforms on what reduces risk, not on library size.
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Integrations into your enterprise security stack, whatever the ecosystem
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Objective, data-driven insight into human risk
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Visibility beyond email phishing: identity, malware, data loss
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Risk-based interventions with training nudges and policy change
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Manager and employee scorecards
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Communications in Slack and Microsoft Teams
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