Praxis Navigator + KnowBe4

Praxis Navigator + KnowBe4: Measure What Training Misses

KnowBe4 is the world's largest security awareness training platform. Praxis Navigator shows you whether that training is actually changing how your employees behave. Together, they give you the complete picture.

KnowBe4: The Industry Standard in Security Awareness Training

KnowBe4 is the most widely deployed security awareness training platform in the world, trusted by over 70,000 organizations. Founded by Stu Sjouwerman, the platform has been the #1 ranked Security Awareness Training solution on G2 for six consecutive years.

What KnowBe4 delivers:

  • Massive content library — Thousands of training modules across security awareness, compliance, and social engineering topics, available in 35+ languages
  • Simulated phishing — Customizable phishing campaigns that test employee responses to realistic attack scenarios
  • HRM+ platform — KnowBe4's expanded Human Risk Management suite, including AI Defense Agents, real-time coaching, and cloud email security
  • Compliance training — Modules mapped to regulatory frameworks including GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and SOX
  • User risk scoring — Individual risk scores based on training completion, phishing test results, and security awareness assessments
  • Reporting — Dashboards tracking training progress, phishing susceptibility trends, and program participation

KnowBe4 is particularly well-suited for organizations that need comprehensive training content, phishing simulation at scale, and a mature platform backed by a global support infrastructure.

Training Activity ≠ Behavior Change

Here's the challenge every organization running KnowBe4 eventually faces:

KnowBe4 can tell you:

  • Who completed their training modules
  • Who clicked on a simulated phishing email
  • Phishing susceptibility percentages over time
  • Training participation rates by department
  • Individual user risk scores based on platform activity

KnowBe4 can't tell you:

  • Whether employees are actually handling real emails more securely
  • How file sharing behaviors have changed since training started
  • Whether MFA adoption is improving or declining across the organization
  • What security behaviors look like across Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams — day by day
  • Whether the training investment is producing measurable behavioral change in the real work environment

KnowBe4's own evolution toward Human Risk Management signals that the industry recognizes this gap. Training metrics and simulated phishing results measure platform activity — what employees do inside the training environment. They can't measure what employees do after they close the training module and go back to work.

That gap between "training completed" and "behavior changed" is exactly what Praxis Navigator was built to close.

See What Happens After Training Ends

Praxis Navigator connects to your Microsoft 365 environment via the Graph API and monitors actual employee security behaviors across five data sources: Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Entra ID.

Instead of measuring what employees learned, Praxis Navigator measures what employees do.

What Praxis Navigator shows you:

  • Behavioral baselines — How your employees handle security before any intervention, calculated from historic Microsoft 365 data available from day one
  • 20+ behavior indicators — Real security behaviors across email, file sharing, collaboration, and identity management
  • Intervention tagging — Tag when you roll out a KnowBe4 campaign, policy change, or any other intervention
  • Before/after comparison — Automatic behavioral comparison showing whether each intervention produced measurable change
  • Security culture scoring — Quantified culture maturity metrics based on the Security Culture Framework adopted by ENISA
  • Stakeholder reports — Board-ready evidence that your security investments are working

Setup takes 15 minutes. No agents, no endpoint software, no data export. You see historic behavioral data from day one — no waiting months to build a baseline.

KnowBe4 + Praxis Navigator: The Complete Picture

The strongest security programs combine effective training with continuous behavioral measurement. Here's how KnowBe4 and Praxis Navigator complement each other:

KnowBe4 Praxis Navigator
Primary function Security awareness training and phishing simulation Security behavior monitoring
What it measures Training completions, phishing test clicks, awareness assessments Actual daily security behaviors in Microsoft 365
Data source Training platform activity, simulated phishing campaigns Microsoft 365 Graph API (Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Entra ID)
Key question answered "Are employees completing training and recognizing simulated phishing?" "Are employees behaving more securely in their daily work?"
Time to value Content available immediately, phishing baselines after first campaign Historic behavioral data visible within 15 minutes of connecting M365
Best for Building security knowledge, testing phishing recognition, meeting compliance requirements Proving training ROI, measuring culture change, identifying real behavioral risk

The workflow:

1

Baseline

Connect Praxis Navigator to Microsoft 365 and see your current behavioral baseline

2

Train

Roll out a KnowBe4 training campaign or phishing simulation

3

Tag

Tag the KnowBe4 campaign as an intervention in Praxis Navigator

4

Compare

See automatic before/during/after behavioral comparison

5

Prove

Generate stakeholder reports showing whether the training produced measurable behavior change

This is the loop that turns security awareness from a compliance checkbox into a measurable, improvable program: Baseline → Intervene → Compare → Prove.

Feature Comparison

Capability KnowBe4 Praxis Together
Security awareness training content ✓ — KnowBe4 delivers training
Simulated phishing campaigns ✓ — KnowBe4 tests phishing recognition
Real-time security coaching ✓ — KnowBe4 nudges in the moment
Compliance training modules ✓ — KnowBe4 covers regulatory requirements
Training completion tracking ✓ — KnowBe4 tracks participation
User risk scoring (platform-based) ✓ — KnowBe4 scores based on training activity
Microsoft 365 behavior monitoring — ✓ Praxis measures real behavior
Behavioral baseline from historic data — ✓ Praxis provides instant baseline
Intervention impact measurement — ✓ Praxis proves what worked
Security culture scoring — ✓ Praxis quantifies culture
Stakeholder/board reporting on behavioral change — ✓ Praxis generates evidence
GDPR compliance ✓ ✓ Both compliant
SOC 2 compliance ✓ ✓ Both compliant
Setup time Hours to days 15 minutes Both operational quickly

Legend: ✓ = Core capability | — = Not the platform's focus

This comparison reflects each platform's primary purpose. KnowBe4 is a training and simulation platform; Praxis Navigator is a behavior monitoring platform. They serve different functions in a security program.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Praxis Navigator a replacement for KnowBe4?
No. Praxis Navigator does not deliver security awareness training, phishing simulations, or compliance content. It monitors actual employee security behaviors in Microsoft 365. Organizations use Praxis Navigator alongside KnowBe4 to measure whether training is producing real behavioral change — turning KnowBe4's training metrics into behavioral evidence.
We already have KnowBe4's user risk scoring. Why do we need Praxis Navigator?
KnowBe4's risk scores are based on training platform activity — training completions, phishing test results, and awareness assessments. Praxis Navigator measures something different: how employees actually behave in Microsoft 365 day-to-day. An employee can score well on KnowBe4's assessments but still share files insecurely or ignore MFA prompts. Praxis Navigator reveals what's happening in the real work environment, not the training environment.
Does KnowBe4's HRM+ platform already do what Praxis Navigator does?
KnowBe4's HRM+ expands into real-time coaching, cloud email security, and AI Defense Agents — broadening beyond traditional training. However, HRM+ is built around KnowBe4's own ecosystem of signals (training data, phishing results, email gateway events). Praxis Navigator takes a different approach: monitoring behavioral patterns across the full Microsoft 365 environment (Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Entra ID) through the Graph API, independent of any training platform. The two provide different lenses on the same workforce.
How does Praxis Navigator get behavioral data?
Praxis Navigator connects to Microsoft 365 via the Graph API with read-only access. It monitors security-relevant behaviors across Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Entra ID. No data is exported or stored outside your environment — Praxis uses a zero-storage architecture for maximum data privacy.
How quickly can I see results?
Within 15 minutes of connecting your Microsoft 365 tenant, you'll see your first Employee Pulse with behavioral data. Because Microsoft retains historic activity data, you get a behavioral baseline from day one — no need to wait weeks or months to start measuring.
What does Praxis Navigator cost compared to KnowBe4?
KnowBe4 pricing is based on user count and subscription tier, typically ranging from $18–$26 per user per year depending on the package. Praxis Navigator pricing starts at €199/month for up to 100 employees (Core plan), with per-employee pricing for larger organizations. Since the platforms serve different functions, most organizations budget them separately — KnowBe4 as a training cost, Praxis Navigator as a measurement and reporting tool.
Does Praxis Navigator work with other training platforms besides KnowBe4?
Yes. Praxis Navigator is training-platform agnostic. It works alongside any SAT solution because it measures behaviors in Microsoft 365, not in the training platform itself. You can tag interventions from any source — KnowBe4 campaigns, Junglemap modules, Proofpoint training, internal policy changes, or anything else — and measure the behavioral impact.
Who built Praxis Navigator?
Praxis Navigator is built by Praxis Security Labs, founded by Kai Roer. Roer is the author of Build a Security Culture and co-author of The Security Culture Playbook (Wiley). He created the Security Culture Framework, which has been adopted by ENISA and is used by organizations worldwide to measure and improve security culture.

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