Name: Hoxhunt
Rating: 4.9 (1275 reviews)

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Updated 28th August 2023

What is Hoxhunt?

Hoxhunt's Human Risk Management platform combines AI and behavioral science to create and assign individualized learning paths. The gamified micro-trainings teach end-users to detect and report advanced phishing attacks, while automated workflows help operations teams respond quickly, with limited resources. The reporting and benchmarking capabilities reveal key security metrics to document reduced cybersecurity risk.

Overall experience with Hoxhunt

IT Associate

250M - 500M USD, Miscellaneous

FAVORABLE

“Gamified Email Reporting Improves Alertness While Dashboard Access And Holiday Timing Need Improvement”

5.0

Nov 6, 2025

I've had a very positive experience with HoxHunt and their product. Specifically, I'm referring to the email spam/phishing reporting functionality.

Account Executive

1B - 3B USD, Insurance (except health)

CRITICAL

“Realistic Security Scenarios Enhance Engagement in Security Awareness Training Modules”

3.0

Sep 22, 2025

Makes learning about security awareness enjoyable and interactive

About Company

Company Description

Hoxhunt is a human risk management platform that combines AI and behavioral science to create and assign individualized learning paths that drive true behavior change and (measurably) lower human risk. Gamified micro-trainings teach end-users to detect and report advanced phishing attacks. Automated workflows help operations teams respond quickly, with limited resources. Security leaders gain outcome-driven metrics to document reduced cybersecurity risk.

Company Details

Company type

Private

Year Founded

2016

Head office location

Helsinki, Finland

Number of employees

51 - 200

Website

https://www.hoxhunt.com

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The gamification of the phishing/spam reporting process has been game changing. I feel much more engaged and vigilant, as in, it keeps me on my toes because I know to expect an email to come in. This has the added benefit of becoming more wary of other phishing/spam that's not coming from HoxHunt but actual threat actors, making me way more likely to recognize and report genuine threats. Getting additional points and seeing my name go up the leaderboard makes me want to go through the additional training that helps me become better at recognizing threats.

They are realistic and relevant

Hoxhunt makes cybersecure behavior fun. Learning is mostly passive but still impactful, and I feel that both the company and I have benefited from being enrolled in the program. Other strengths are the UI quality and the variety of phishing emails.

1. You might get an email outside of working hours and then because you took a long time to report it (because you'd only see it after arriving at work) you get less points on the leaderboard. 2. The tool is not aware of public holidays so you may still get an email during time off and then it will get marked as missed if you don't report it for a few days. 3. I can't seem to find a way to open HoxHunt's dashboard without having to report an email, so if I don't have an email to report, I can't access the dashboard which is a minor inconvenience - but then again, there might be a way I am just not aware of.

Simulations can be too easy

No (clear) way to opt in for more phishing emails or increase the difficulty - I have worked at several different companies who use Hoxhunt, but have always had to start from the bottom with training. It would be great if one could take some test to unlock harder/more innocuous phishing attempts, or simply increase their frequency (though I recognize that people who get more emails than I do might not appreciate too many phishes in their inbox).

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Hoxhunt Reviews and Ratings

4.9

(1275 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star: 84%
4 Star: 15%
3 Star: 1%
2 Star: 0%
1 Star: 0%

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.7

Integration & Deployment

4.7

Service & Support

4.8

Product Capabilities

4.8

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IT Associate
50M-1B USD
Miscellaneous
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Gamified Email Reporting Improves Alertness While Dashboard Access And Holiday Timing Need Improvement
5.0
Nov 5, 2025
I've had a very positive experience with HoxHunt and their product. Specifically, I'm referring to the email spam/phishing reporting functionality.
Business Development Associate
1B-10B USD
Manufacturing
Review Source
Engaging and informative cybersecurity learning tool - this user asks for more frequent and harder challenges
5.0
Nov 5, 2025
I have a lot of fun with Hoxhunt, and it has made me a more cautious person (in a good way). While the phishing emails are fairly obvious at my current level, they are frequent enough to keep me alert for real threats. The gamification has worked on me since I actually care about making progress, and I have tried additional features such as phish-a-friend.
ASSOCIATE IT OPERATIONS L1
1B-10B USD
Media
Review Source
A modern, user-friendly Security Awareness Solution that elevates employee's participation and Reporting
4.0
Nov 25, 2025
The overall experience with Hoxhunt is quite impressive. Our users are praising its gaming training model to increase the participation and for each reporting email Hoxhunt gives us stars and badges and shares the scores and makes phishing awareness more fun. The simulated emails are quite impressive and very realistic according to hoxhunt. The hoxhunt button helps us to report phishing emails and spam emails. Hoxhunt is far better than others, the integration of hoxhunt with other platforms like outlook and MS tools is very easy. Overall, it's been a good experience with Hoxhunt and its support team for past 1 year.
Procurement Associate
10B+ USD
Energy and Utilities
Review Source
Employees Embrace Phish-a-Friend Feature Though Badge Qualifications Cause Irritation
5.0
Nov 12, 2025
The negotiation and implementation process was incredibly easy. Our users seem to enjoy using Hoxhunt more than our previous solution. Personally, I very much prefer the Hoxhunt style of more fun and proactive training over our previous reactive training and so few emails that you forget about them.
Finance Associate
1B-10B USD
Finance (non-banking)
Review Source
Engaging Approach Enhances Security Awareness Through Practical and Memorable Training
5.0
Mar 26, 2026
My experience with Hoxhunt has been positive and very engaging. The platform delivers security awareness training in a practical and intercative manner which makes learning both effective and memorable. The content quality is also topnotch. The simulations are realistic and varied, helping employees recognize different types of phishing attempts and other cyber threats. Also, the gamified approach keeps user motivated, encouraging consistent participation rather than one time compliance.

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