SoSafe is an established enterprise platform — a good choice for many organizations. But if you're looking for research-based security awareness training that's completely free without a demo call, doesn't require phishing simulations on your own employees, and reaches teams without company email, you should know Webguardiola. Here's the fair comparison.
Fairness first: SoSafe is a German company with EU hosting, a GDPR-compliant platform and a comprehensive human risk management approach — automated spear-phishing simulations, AI personalization, risk dashboards and integrations with MS Teams and Slack. For larger organizations that want to continuously measure and manage human risk through dashboards, that's a strong package.
Companies looking for a SoSafe alternative typically have one of three reasons: They want to fully see and test the product before talking to sales (SoSafe doesn't publish prices; evaluation runs through a demo call). They don't want to run phishing simulations on their own employees — whether for data protection reasons, because of the works council, or out of conviction. Or they need training that also reaches employees without company email or a desk — manufacturing, logistics, retail, field service.
Webguardiola addresses exactly these three points — with a research-based approach rooted in doctoral research on overconfidence bias in the phishing context. And this isn't limited to SMEs: for larger organizations with their own LMS, the complete training is available as a SCORM package — compact, gamified superhero comic e-learning, already successfully deployed in companies, at a price well below typical enterprise licenses.
Both approaches have their place — the table shows where the concepts differ. As of July 2026, based on publicly available information.
| Criterion | SoSafe | Webguardiola |
|---|---|---|
| Testable before buying | Demo call with sales | ✓ Complete training without company registration |
| Price transparency | Individual quotes, no public prices | Trainings free for everyone · Dashboard at fixed prices from €490 / year |
| Phishing simulations | ✓ Automated spear-phishing campaigns | Deliberately none — recognition exercise in the training instead of click tracking |
| Human risk dashboards & AI | ✓ Extensive (risk scores, benchmarks, AI bot) | Dashboard: completion status, knowledge before/after, audit report |
| Didactic approach | E-learning library, gamification, micro-learning | ✓ Comic storytelling, research-based (overconfidence research) |
| Blue collar / no company email | Primarily email-based delivery | ✓ Cloud access on personal devices, email-code login |
| SCORM for your own LMS | ✓ | ✓ SCORM 1.2, no external content at runtime |
| NIS2 training records | ✓ | ✓ incl. 30-min. training for governing bodies (Art. 20(2)) |
| GDPR / EU hosting | ✓ German company, EU data centers | ✓ EU hosting Frankfurt, DPA, passwordless |
| Ideal for | Larger organizations with a human risk program | SME to enterprise: lean, verifiable training without employee tracking — cloud-based or via SCORM in your own LMS |
All statements about SoSafe are based on publicly available information (as of July 2026) and may change. SoSafe is a trademark of SoSafe GmbH. No claim to completeness — verify current details directly with the provider.
You see 100% of what your employees will get — the complete training, all games, all quizzes. Free, no credit card, no sales call. The company dashboard with audit report comes at public fixed prices from €490 per year; SCORM packages and additional services are available separately on request.
No covert test emails, no personal click data, no works council debate. Our overconfidence bias research shows: knowledge is rarely the problem — application is. That's exactly where the training starts.
Manufacturing, logistics, retail, field service: employees without company email train on their personal phones — login via email code. Office teams in parallel via SCORM in the LMS. Both at once, identical content.
NIS2 requires regular, documented training measures — not a specific product and no phishing simulation. Webguardiola delivers documented training records for audits (NIS2, ISO 27001, TISAX), a NIS2 training for all employees and the 30-minute NIS2 training for management and governing bodies (Art. 20(2)).
The four platform trainings are free, right now and for good. No demo call, no credit card, no fine print. Add the dashboard with audit report when you need it.
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