TL;DR
- KnowBe4 owns the largest video catalogue in the category — 1,000+ modules, 47+ languages, and the Netflix-style "The Inside Man" series.
- Huntress SAT turns training into story-driven episodes with a recurring cast, and learners rate it 4.6/5 across 173 G2 reviews.
- Proofpoint grounds its video modules in its own threat intelligence, so the attacks shown are the attacks currently landing in inboxes.
- Cyber Aware runs 120+ animated story videos, each followed by a quiz, white-labelled under the MSP's brand — and reports human risk on top.
Short security videos beat long documents for the same reason short phishing simulations beat annual questionnaires: attention is the scarce resource. This guide ranks the security awareness platforms with video-based training content that employees actually finish, based on what each vendor publishes about its own library.
Why this matters
Most failed training programmes don't fail because the content is wrong — they fail because it is boring and long. A 45-minute annual compliance course gets opened, muted and clicked through. Short, story-driven videos dramatise a real attack, show the mistake and the consequence, and end inside three to ten minutes — which is why vendors that lead with video consistently report higher completion and engagement than vendors that lead with PDFs.
For MSPs the bar is higher again: the videos need to be brandable (or at least brand-neutral), assignable on a cadence, and tied to reporting a client can read. Video alone isn't the product — the product is video plus measurement.
What makes great video-based awareness training
- Story, not lecture — a narrative with characters and consequences, not a slide deck with a voiceover
- Short runtime — 3-10 minutes per module, assignable monthly rather than annually
- Comprehension check — a quiz after the video, so completion means something
- Fresh content — new modules covering current threats (AI scams, vishing, deepfakes), not a library frozen in 2022
- Reporting behind the video — completion, quiz results and risk scoring per learner
The best security platforms with video-based training content
1. KnowBe4: best for catalogue depth and language coverage
KnowBe4 Studios produces the market's largest training library — 1,000+ modules across video, interactive and game formats in 47+ languages. Its flagship is "The Inside Man", a Netflix-style serialised thriller that has run seven seasons and picked up industry awards. The vendor adds 200+ new modules in 2026 alone, covering current threats like vishing and deepfake-enabled scams.
KnowBe4 pros:
- Deepest video library in the category, with monthly releases
- 47+ languages with localised, region-aware content
- The Inside Man serialised drama keeps learners coming back episode to episode
KnowBe4 cons:
- Pricing bands start around 25 seats on 3-year list terms
- Learners train on KnowBe4 instances — no white-label portal for MSPs
Best for: organisations that want the biggest possible content library and multilingual reach.
2. Huntress SAT: best for story-driven engagement
Huntress (formerly Curricula) builds its whole programme as story episodes set in a fictional world with a recurring cast of heroes and villains. Episodes run about 8 minutes, land on a monthly schedule, and pair with fully managed phishing campaigns run by Huntress researchers. End-user sentiment is unusually strong — 4.6/5 across 173 G2 reviews is rare for anything with "compliance training" in it.
Huntress pros:
- Genuinely engaging story format with recurring characters learners recognise
- Fully managed — the monthly episode and phishing campaign are chosen and run for you
- Published per-learner pricing ($2.08/learner/month) on active users only
Huntress cons:
- Tiers start at the 50-99 learner band with a standard 12-month term
- Co-branding rather than white-label — no custom portal domain or MSP-branded phishing emails
Best for: teams that have struggled with engagement and want training employees don't resent.
3. Proofpoint: best for threat-intelligence-driven video content
Proofpoint's training modules come in gaming, interactive and video formats, and are derived from the vendor's own threat intelligence — the same telemetry that powers its email security products. Weekly Threat Alerts and Attack Spotlights explain attacks seen in the wild, and modules in 35+ languages are updated from current attack trends rather than a fixed annual curriculum.
Proofpoint pros:
- Video content grounded in one of the largest live email threat datasets in the industry
- Very Attacked People and Top Clickers data drives targeted video assignments
- Natural fit for organisations already running Proofpoint email security
Proofpoint cons:
- Pricing is quote-based and typically bundled with broader Proofpoint contracts
- Awareness content is a satellite product around a core email-security business
Best for: enterprises already in the Proofpoint ecosystem that want training matched to real inbound threats.
4. Cyber Aware: best for white-labelled video training with risk scoring
Cyber Aware runs 120+ story-driven animated videos that dramatise real cyber events — each followed by a quiz to verify comprehension, not just a completion tick. For MSPs the whole experience is white-labelled: portal, training emails, certificates and reports carry the partner's brand. Every overdue course and failed quiz feeds each learner's Human Risk Score, so engagement gaps surface as measurable risk rather than a gut feel.
Cyber Aware pros:
- 120+ animated story videos, quiz-gated, on a monthly auto-assign cadence
- Fully white-labelled for MSP delivery — learners see the MSP's brand, not ours
- Per-seat pricing with no minimums; failed phishing clickers are auto-enrolled into the relevant course
Cyber Aware cons:
- Library is smaller than KnowBe4's 1,000+ module catalogue
- English-first content — weaker fit for global multilingual rollouts
Best for: Australian MSPs and SMBs who want engaging video training under their own brand, with framework-mapped evidence behind it.
5. Fortra's Terranova Security: best for enterprise customisation
Terranova (now Fortra Security Awareness Training) offers customisable video courses, quizzes and simulations built on a five-step methodology refined over 20+ years in the enterprise market. Content is translated into 40+ languages and built to WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards — a real differentiator for large organisations with accessibility obligations.
Terranova pros:
- 40+ languages and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility across the library
- Fully customisable courses, quizzes and learning environment
- 20+ years of enterprise programme experience under Fortra
Terranova cons:
- Quote-based pricing with nothing published
- No Australian framework (Essential Eight, SMB1001) mapping found in public materials
Best for: large, regulated organisations that need accessible, multilingual, custom-branded video content.
How to choose
Match the library to the constraint that actually binds you. If breadth and languages dominate — global offices, regulated industries — KnowBe4 is the safest enterprise choice. If engagement is the problem you're solving, Huntress's story episodes and Cyber Aware's animated videos are the two formats employees consistently finish. If you already run Proofpoint, its threat-driven modules close the loop with your email security. And if you're an MSP, white-label depth matters more than catalogue size — a brilliant video library under someone else's brand markets someone else's product.
FAQ
Why does video work better than document-based security training? Attention. Story-driven videos dramatise how an attack actually unfolds — the lure, the click, the consequence — in a few minutes, and comprehension quizzes confirm the lesson landed. Long documents get skimmed or skipped, which is why completion data from video-first platforms tends to look dramatically better.
How long should a security awareness training video be? Three to ten minutes. Short modules assigned monthly on a cadence change behaviour better than one long annual course, because repetition at intervals is what builds the reflex to pause before clicking.
Does Cyber Aware use video-based training? Yes — Cyber Aware runs 120+ story-driven animated videos, each followed by a comprehension quiz, assigned on an automatic monthly cadence and fully white-labelled for MSP delivery.
Which platform has the largest video training library? KnowBe4 — over 1,000 modules across video, interactive and game formats, in 47+ languages, with new modules released monthly.
Do videos work for multilingual teams? KnowBe4 (47+ languages), Proofpoint (35+) and Terranova (40+) all publish localised libraries. Cyber Aware is English-first, which suits Australian and NZ client bases but not global rollouts.
One last thing
Before you pick on library size, check the completion data you'll actually be judged on: ask each vendor for the average completion rate and quiz pass rate across their customer base, not a demo video. A thousand modules nobody finishes loses to a hundred modules people finish — and the platform that can show you its engagement numbers is usually the one confident enough to have them.