Huntress Security Awareness Training
Training People Remember A Week Later
Huntress Security Awareness Training is the product formerly sold as Curricula, and it kept what made Curricula worth buying: story-led, character-driven lessons that staff finish voluntarily rather than under duress. The episodes are still the reason to choose it.
Short animated episodes with recurring characters, rather than a narrated slide deck with a quiz bolted on the end.
Designed for organizations without a training department, where the programme has to run itself or it will not run.
Huntress acquired Curricula in 2022. The product is sold as Huntress Security Awareness Training today.
Completion Rates Measure Compliance, Not Learning
Almost every organization can produce a report showing training was completed. Very few can show that behaviour changed.
The Tab Left Open
A thirty minute module assigned at year end is played in a background tab while the employee answers email. The record says complete. Nothing was learned, and the record is what gets audited.
Resentment Is A Result
Training staff dislike teaches them that security is an obstacle imposed by people who do not understand their job. That lesson lasts longer than any module, and it is the reason nobody reports a mistake later.
Annual Is Not A Cadence
One session a year cannot compete with the hundred emails a week that are actively trying to teach the opposite lesson. Frequency matters more than duration, and short beats thorough.
A naming change worth knowing about
Curricula was acquired by Huntress in 2022 and is now sold as Huntress Security Awareness Training. The original story-based content continues under that name. If you already use Huntress for managed detection, this may appear on an existing agreement, and it is worth asking how the two are packaged together before treating them as separate purchases.
The Programme, And How It Runs Itself
The practical test of an awareness product for a small team is how much of it somebody has to operate each month.
Episode Library
Lessons are built as episodes with recurring characters and a plot, on the argument that people remember a story and forget a bullet list. Length is measured in minutes rather than half hours, so the training fits inside a working day.
Phishing Simulation
Simulated phishing runs alongside the episodes, and a click leads into training rather than into a reprimand. Ask how the templates are kept current, since a simulation library that ages stops resembling what is actually arriving.
Automated Enrolment
Staff are enrolled and reminded automatically, which matters more than it sounds. An awareness programme that depends on somebody remembering to assign it is a programme that stops the first busy month.
Reporting For Evidence
Completion and simulation results are recorded in a form you can hand to an insurer, a customer questionnaire or an auditor. This is frequently the actual reason for the purchase, and there is no shame in saying so.
Two Philosophies In One Market
Awareness vendors divide roughly into breadth of compliance content and depth of behaviour change. Neither is wrong; they suit different problems.
| Consideration | Compliance-led libraries | Story-led training |
|---|---|---|
| Primary goal | Cover every required topic | Be remembered and voluntarily finished |
| Typical length | Twenty to forty minutes | Minutes, repeated often |
| Regulatory breadth | Extensive, many frameworks | Narrower; check your requirements |
| Staff reaction | Endured | Frequently positive, which is the point |
| Best when | You must evidence specific curricula | You need behaviour to actually change |
Where This Is The Right Choice
A strong fit. Organizations without a training function, where the programme must run unattended, and where previous attempts at awareness training were quietly abandoned because nobody could face administering them. If your staff groaned last time, that is a signal in this product's favour.
A weaker fit. Regulated environments that must evidence specific curricula across many topics, in many languages, for many jurisdictions. A compliance-led library will cover that ground more completely, and the honest answer is to check your obligations before choosing on tone.
One thing to confirm. Ask how this is packaged alongside Huntress managed detection, because buying them together and buying them separately are not always priced the same way.
Ask Your Staff About Last Year's Training
If nobody can remember what it covered, the programme was a compliance record rather than a control. That answer is the whole case for trying something people will actually watch.
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