BeamSec
BeamSec trains the layer no firewall covers, and encrypts the channel the attack arrives through.
The alternative
KnowBe4, Proofpoint and Hoxhunt are the names that come up in this category.
At a glance
- Modules
- BeamSec Academy, PhishPro, PhishTrace, Emcrpt
- Templates
- Over three hundred ready phishing templates
- Content
- SCORM import, so courses you already own run in the same platform
- Directory
- LDAP synchronisation, or a staff list by file
- Reporting
- By department, group and individual, exported as PDF
- Languages
- English and Turkish
Training a user to report, and then not managing the report, cancels the training.
Most products in this category sell awareness training and phishing simulation. BeamSec adds email encryption and secure file exchange, so the same budget covers the user and the data the user sends. The product family is PhishPro for simulation, PhishTrace for the reporting queue, Academy for training, and Emcrpt for encrypted messaging.
PhishTrace is the difference that matters operationally. Ask what happens when a user reports a suspicious email. In a lot of organisations it lands in a mailbox with no owner. The user reports twice, hears nothing, and stops reporting, and the awareness programme has spent its budget teaching people that reporting achieves nothing. Managing that queue is not an add-on to the training. It is the half that makes the other half hold.
The third point is about what a buyer already owns. An organisation that has run an awareness programme for three years has course material, an audit trail and a set of internal expectations built around it. SCORM content imports, so changing platform does not mean starting the programme again, which is usually the reason a bad platform stays in place.
How it works
- Realistic phishing scenarios are sent to users, from a library of ready templates
- Clicks, data entry and reports are measured
- Targeted training is assigned where the weakness actually is
- Reported mail is handled in one queue with an owner
- Existing SCORM course material runs in the same platform
- Corporate email and file exchange are encrypted
Who it is for
- Any organisation where phishing is the first step of the attack
- Organisations that have to show an auditor evidence of awareness training
- Teams replacing an awareness platform without restarting the programme
- Finance, healthcare and legal practices sending sensitive files
What we can point to
- Listed on Gartner Peer Insights
Where it sits
Human layer. Email and file encryption touches data protection, and the key custody half of that area sits with Procenne.