The Huntress SAT alternative built for Australian MSPs.

Huntress documents its branding options well. The SAT settings panel lets partners customise "the color and logo displayed in learner notifications," completion certificates "can be co-branded to include your logo" per Huntress's own 2024 SAT wrap-up, and a separate support article covers adding a highlight colour and company URL to Huntress reports. Its MSP page markets the whole platform as running "under your trusted brand."

All of that is co-branding on Huntress's platform. We found no option to host the training portal on the MSP's own domain - learners sign in to Huntress via Microsoft, Google or Okta SSO - and no confirmation that phishing-simulation emails carry the MSP's sender identity. A third-party review site claims "customizable portals" and "removal of vendor branding," but no Huntress documentation we could find corroborates it.

Cyber Aware carries the MSP's own logo and domain across every touchpoint by default - portal, notification emails, phishing simulations, completion certificates and reports - with no Cyber Aware branding visible to end clients.

Credit where due: Huntress publishes its pricing, which most vendors in this category don't. Managed SAT lists at $2.08 per learner per month on huntress.com, volume tiers reduce the per-learner rate as commitments grow, and billing counts only active users via daily directory syncs - inactive employees and shared mailboxes aren't charged.

The structure around that number is where MSPs should look closely. Huntress's pricing page shows tiers starting at the 50-99 unit band, and states the standard term is 12 months for direct customers and MSPs alike. A third-party pricing guide (UnderDefense, May 2026) corroborates the list rate and describes volume discounts from roughly 5% at 100-249 learners. For an MSP whose client list includes plenty of sub-50-seat businesses, tier minimums and an annual term are real planning constraints.

Cyber Aware publishes one per-seat rate with no seat minimums and no annual lock-in - the number on the card is the number.

Huntress SAT's core bet is that MSPs don't want to run awareness programmes at all. Its team selects a monthly episode based on the global threatscape and assigns it on the first business day of each month; its threat researchers design, schedule and run phishing simulations end-to-end; and learners who click are auto-enrolled in Phishing Defense Coaching - a session built around the exact email they fell for. In 2024 Huntress reports sending over 930,000 simulations, and it added a game-style Threat Simulator in June 2025.

That model is genuinely good if hands-off is what you want. The trade-off is programme control: the cadence, topics and campaign calendar are Huntress's, and G2 reviewers note the training can feel light for mature audiences while the post-click coaching struck some users as punitive. When a client's insurer or auditor needs specific topics on a specific schedule with evidence against a named framework, a managed calendar you don't control cuts the other way.

Cyber Aware's Auto Phish gets an MSP the same effort profile - a full year of varied campaigns generated from one setup conversation - while the MSP keeps ownership of what runs, when, and under whose brand.

Huntress has invested in Australia more visibly than most US vendors: a Sydney-based regional team since 2023, threat-ops coverage spanning the US, UK and Australia, a May 2026 Dicker Data distribution agreement, and phishing templates localised for Australian geography. Its CyberCert partnership lets Huntress partners buy SMB1001 certification bundles for clients.

Look closer at the frameworks, though, and the picture narrows. The Essential 8 references on huntress.com sit in Managed SIEM marketing - logging retention and maturity-level-two requirements - not in SAT. The CyberCert arrangement is a certification reseller partnership, not SMB1001-mapped training content. And Huntress's own support documentation states collected data is held in US-based data centres; we found no announcement of Australian data residency for any Huntress product.

Cyber Aware's training and gap assessments map to Essential 8 and SMB1001 directly, so the evidence an Australian client hands an auditor is framework-specific from the first report - under the MSP's brand, not ours.