SECURITY AWARENESS TRAINING

Deploy Automated, Risk-Based Security Awareness Training 

Transform risky employee behavior and foster a stronger, long-lasting culture of security. 

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Real-World User Training

Empower your people to be part of your security solution 

Go beyond basic security awareness training to prepare your employees to identify and report the latest human‑activated threats. Personalize education for each user with AI-powered guidance and content that intelligently adapts to the changing threat landscape. 

Focus on your highest-risk users

Deliver targeted education based on deep insights into users' roles, behaviors, skills, and specific threats they face.

Scale your program with automation and AI

Auto‑enroll users in personalized training that adapts to their risk levels, with AI‑guided simulations built on real attacks.

Level up your security culture

Motivate and engage users with gamified learning, curated content, real‑world scenarios, just‑in‑time coaching, and more.

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Checkbox Training Risks

Traditional security awareness training is not enough

Basic cybersecurity awareness training may check the compliance box, but it won't build the security culture required to stop today's human-activated threats. You need to identify high‑risk users, educate them on your organization's real threats, and help everyone play a meaningful role in reducing risk.

95 %
of cyberattacks involve the human element
68 %
of workers knowingly bypass security
60 %
of workers are unsure of their security responsibilities
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User-Specific Education

Measure human risk at the individual user level

Proofpoint ZenGuide helps you provide targeted, data-driven education beyond traditional security awareness training and phishing tests.

Behavioral and Role-Based Risk Insights 

Evaluate user behavior, roles, and access to identify individuals with the highest risk and impact.

Threat-Informed Risk Scoring 

Incorporate threat exposure, vulnerabilities, and phishing performance into user risk evaluation. 

Streamlined Threat Reporting 

Enable fast reporting with an easy-to-use Report Suspicious button across email and mobile devices. 

Relevant, Practical Learning

Automate risk-based learning at scale

Effortlessly create and customize targeted education for your high-risk employees and enroll them automatically, saving time and effort.

Adaptive User Grouping and Enrollment 

Group users by risk, role, and behavior to automatically assign relevant training programs.

Dynamic Learning Paths and Simulations 

Deliver multi-step training with simulations, assessments, and guided learning experiences. 

AI-Powered Simulation and Training 

Recommend simulations and turn real attacks into training with Satori Phishing Simulation Agent and AI ThreatFlip. 

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Education for All Users

Deliver engaging, personalized learning experiences

Educate users across a wide range of security topics, difficulty levels, formats, and languages. Offer global learners a unique learning experience for maximum impact. 

Flexible and Contextual Learning 

Deliver micro-learning and just-in-time guidance based on user behavior and real-world risk context. 

Accessible Learning Experiences 

Support global users with WCAG-based accessibility settings for inclusive and consistent training.

Gamified User Engagement 

Encourage participation with interactive dashboards that reinforce progress and secure behavior. 

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Sustainable Progress

Measure and improve program outcomes

Track your users' behavior changes and benchmark them against your industry peers. Combined with Human Resilience Workbench, ZenGuide reveals high-risk users and their risky behaviors, and tracks changes over time, ensuring better communication and ongoing improvement.

Why Proofpoint

Proofpoint ZenGuide vs. traditional awareness training

CapabilityTraditional Awareness Training Proofpoint ZenGuide 
Threat-informed training Centers on scheduled training rather than continuously updated threat context Uses threat intelligence to reduce user risk by shifting from templated sessions to a personalized, behavior-driven approach
Risk-based training Delivers standardized training across user populations with limited adaptation to individual risk Personalizes education based on user risk, role, behavior, and threat exposure
Phishing simulations Relies on prebuilt simulation templates rather than live organizational threats Creates realistic simulations from current attacks targeting your organization
Adaptive learning Uses predefined learning paths and campaign schedules Adjusts learning automatically with AI-driven content based on user behavior, performance, and risk
Behavior change Focuses on knowledge transfer and awareness activities Reinforces learning at the point of risk with just-in-time coaching moments triggered by user actions
Program automation Requires administrators to manage campaigns, assignments, and updates Automates targeting, enrollment, and recommendations based on user behavior to reduce administrative effort
Security metrics Measures participation, assessments, and campaign performance Measures behavior change, resilience, and user risk over time
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Empower your users with Collaboration Security Prime

Embed risk‑based learning into every collaboration channel with Proofpoint Collaboration Security Prime. Stop the most advanced attacks across email, collaboration tools, and cloud apps with a single integrated solution. 

Request a Demo

Turn live threats into personalized, instant learning—and reduce human‑activated risk. Request a demo to see it in action.

FAQ

Risk-based security awareness training tailors education to each person using signals such as behavior, role, access, threat exposure, and phishing performance. Traditional programs often give every employee the same periodic content. 

A risk-based approach detects who needs support, delivers timely interventions, reinforces secure choices, and evaluates whether behavior improves. Proofpoint ZenGuide applies this Detect, Intervene, Change Behavior, and Evaluate framework to focus learning on the people and actions that create the greatest exposure. 

Security awareness training is most effective when it changes behavior and reduces measurable human risk, rather than treating course completion as the main outcome. 

Organizations should track simulation performance, knowledge assessments, reporting behavior, risky actions, and changes in individual or group risk over time. Proofpoint ZenGuide monitors training and simulation activity, campaign outcomes, and behavior indicators. Its dashboards and benchmarking help teams show program impact, identify where intervention is still needed, and refine their strategy. 

Traditional security awareness training often delivers the same scheduled content to everyone, even though people face different threats and create different levels of risk. Compliance-focused training can improve knowledge without showing whether employees make safer choices in real situations. 

Reducing human cyber risk requires continuous insight into user behavior and threat exposure, followed by relevant guidance, simulations, and reinforcement. A risk-based program adapts as risk changes and measures whether the intervention improves behavior. 

Proofpoint ZenGuide uses human risk insights from the Proofpoint platform to help identify people and groups that need intervention. 

Human Risk Explorer correlates signals across data, awareness, and threat risk, including user behavior, business role, access, phishing performance, and attack exposure. ZenGuide can use those insights to create adaptive groups and assign targeted learning. Security teams can see why risk is changing, focus resources on the highest-impact users, and track risk over time. 

Proofpoint ZenGuide can turn phishing attacks detected in an organization’s environment into safe simulation templates with AI ThreatFlip Workflow. 

ThreatFlip clones the real message, removes harmful elements and sensitive data, and produces a realistic template with one click. This helps security teams keep simulations aligned with the attacks targeting their organization while reducing manual template creation. Teams can place the resulting simulations within broader learning paths that include assessments and guided education.