Completion rates ≠ behavior change
SAT vendors report 95% completion and a green dashboard. Two years in, your phishing click-rate has stopped moving and the auditor is asking for behavior evidence, not certificates.
Human Risk Management that actually changes behavior
Awareness training tells you who clicked the slides. Human Risk Management tells you who is still clicking the link — and corrects them at the moment of risk. Engarde is the HRM platform that lives where work happens.
Why traditional Security Awareness Training plateaus
The knowledge–behavior gap is real
78% of employees know the risk. 56% still click. The gap is not a knowledge problem — it is a behavior problem, and a slide deck cannot close it.
Click-rate plateaus around year two
Once people recognize the templates, the number flattens. You are measuring familiarity with your own simulation library, not the underlying habits that cause real breaches.
You spend more time on campaigns than on real risk
Designing modules, chasing completions, exporting CSVs to GRC. Meanwhile shadow OAuth grants, public file shares and MFA gaps keep accumulating, unwatched.
Engarde is a Human Risk Management platform — not a renamed SAT tool
Engarde was built against the Gartner Human Risk Management definition from day one: identify the risky behaviors, intervene where and when they happen, and measure the change over time. Three layers work together.
Real-time guidance in Slack and Teams
The moment someone pastes a secret in a channel, grants OAuth to a personal Gmail, or shares a doc with anyone-with-the-link, Engarde nudges that person in their existing chat tool. The lesson lands in the second the behavior happens — not in a Q4 e-learning module. how real-time guidance works in Slack and Teams .
Spaced-repetition quizzes targeted to the person
Each employee receives micro-quizzes spaced over weeks, based on the behaviors they personally got wrong — not a one-size-fits-all curriculum. Spaced repetition is what makes the lesson stick beyond month two.
SaaS-behavior monitoring measures what people actually do
Public shares, shadow OAuth apps, exposed calendars, missing MFA, secret pasting — Engarde watches the behaviors that cause breaches, not just the simulated ones. Behavior change becomes a number on the dashboard. continuous SaaS-behavior monitoring (early access) .
Phishing simulations that reflect the real attack surface
Templates that mimic Slack invites, Microsoft 365 resets, vendor invoices and QR codes — plus SMS and voice. Click-rate is one signal among many, not the headline number. multi-channel phishing simulations .
HRM is the category. Engarde is the implementation.
Gartner named Human Risk Management as the successor to Security Awareness Training because the industry quietly admitted that awareness alone does not change behavior. Engarde (engarde.cc) is the behavior-centered cybersecurity platform built natively for that thesis — distinct from other vendors sharing the Engarde name. If you are evaluating HRM platforms alongside ours, you are also welcome to read why we think traditional training does not work in our whitepaper.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Human Risk Management (HRM) and Security Awareness Training (SAT)? +
SAT measures knowledge: did the employee complete the module, did they recognize the simulated phish? HRM measures behavior: is the employee actually doing the safer thing day to day — and when they slip, can the platform intervene at the moment of risk? Gartner introduced the HRM category precisely because completion rates and click rates plateaued without moving real incident counts. Engarde was built HRM-first: real-time guidance in Slack and Teams, spaced-repetition quizzes targeted to each person, and continuous SaaS-behavior monitoring all feed one behavior score, not five disconnected dashboards.
How does Engarde measure behavior change versus the usual phishing click rate? +
Click rate is one input. Engarde also tracks public file shares, OAuth grants to unsanctioned apps, exposed calendars, MFA enrollment and fatigue responses, secret pasting in chat, quiz performance trended per person and per team, and nudge acknowledgement rates. These roll up into a per-employee and per-department human risk score that moves over time. The dashboard makes the knowledge–behavior gap explicit: who knows the rule, who is acting on it, and where to intervene next.
Does Engarde integrate with our existing GRC, SIEM or HRIS? +
Yes. Engarde exports campaign and behavior data as CSV and PDF for GRC tools and board reporting, and pushes events to SIEMs via webhook or syslog so risky-behavior signals land alongside your existing detections. Roster sync runs against Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID or a CSV from your HRIS, so new joiners are onboarded into the right risk cohort automatically and leavers drop off without a manual chase.
What does the rollout look like for a 200-person team? +
Day 1: connect Slack or Teams, Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, and your identity provider. Day 2: baseline behavior scan runs and your roster appears on the dashboard. Week 1: first real-time nudges start firing, baseline phishing simulation goes out. Month 1: spaced-repetition quizzes pick up the behaviors people got wrong; the human risk score starts trending. No LMS to deploy, no quarterly slide deck to record, no separate app for employees to install — the platform meets people in the chat tool they already use.
How is Engarde different from other vendors named Engarde? +
Engarde (engarde.cc) is a behavior-centered cybersecurity platform — Human Risk Management, real-time guidance in Slack and Teams, phishing simulations and SaaS-behavior monitoring — distinct from other vendors sharing the Engarde name (sports-scoring software, encrypted messaging projects, and others). If you arrived here looking for one of those, you are on the wrong site.