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Arctic Wolf Aurora Security Awareness and Training
Your staff skip the yearly awareness course. Three minutes in their inbox is harder to ignore — Arctic Wolf Aurora Security Awareness and Training sends a three-minute lesson to every inbox each fortnight, runs the phishing tests beside it, and keeps the programme going without your admin.
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The Arctic Wolf platform family
This page covers Arctic Wolf Aurora Security Awareness and Training — managed microlearning and phishing simulation, formerly Managed Security Awareness. The rest:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Fully managed security awareness training with microlearning and phishing simulation
- Maker
- Arctic Wolf Networks, Eden Prairie, Minnesota; private, CEO Nick Schneider since August 2021
- Name
- Sold as Managed Security Awareness before the Aurora rename; legal documents still say MA®
- Price
- Not published; quoted alone, or included in the Security Operations Plus and Total bundles
- Tiers
- Base tier, or Training+ with custom content and phishing, AI and role lessons, and LMS download
- Lessons
- Microlearning of roughly 3 minutes, sent by email every two weeks; nothing to log in to
- Simulation
- Phishing simulations and a Report Phishing button come in the base tier
- Compliance
- A Compliance Pack of 16 courses, with PCI, HIPAA and GDPR among them
- India
- No India data region; the Bengaluru centre does engineering, not hosting or SOC work
- In India via
- TechBag — tier choice, quote in INR with GST, first report review
Understand managed awareness training before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is managed awareness training?
Staff get short lessons and safe phishing tests, and the vendor, not your admin, keeps them coming.
A yearly portal course vs Arctic Wolf’s managed microlearning — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | A yearly portal course, self-run | Arctic Wolf Aurora Security Awareness and Training |
|---|---|---|
| Who keeps the programme going | One admin, when the calendar allows | Arctic Wolf, as a managed service |
| How long a lesson takes | An hour, once a year | About three minutes, every two weeks |
| How staff reach it | A portal login few remember | An email that opens with no login |
| What staff do with a phish | Forward it to IT, or ignore it | Press the Report Phishing button |
| Regulation-specific courses | Bought and tracked separately | A 16-course Compliance Pack |
| What it is NOT | — | A mail filter, a risk-scoring suite, or a published price |
The cheapest test is a baseline: count last quarter's phishing tickets, then compare after four months of fortnightly lessons.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Library
Short lessons of about three minutes make up the base library; Training+ widens it with role and industry topics, AI best-practice lessons and content you supply yourself.
Delivery
Arctic Wolf sends a lesson to each inbox every two weeks, and it opens without a login or portal, so no admin books sessions or resets learning-platform passwords.
Simulation
Simulated phishing emails test whether the lessons stuck, and a Report Phishing button gives staff one action for anything odd; Training+ lets you write custom lures.
Insight
Reporting built for managers sits beside a maturity programme that frames progress over time; Training+ customers can also download lessons into their own LMS.
Three-minute lessons by email every fortnight — with phishing tests and manager reports, all delivered by Arctic Wolf.
Nine capabilities. Teach, test, manage.
Arctic Wolf delivers short lessons and phishing tests for you, so the programme never waits on an admin.
Three minutes, not an hour
Each lesson runs for roughly three minutes, short enough to finish between emails instead of blocking out a training slot.
Sixteen regulation courses
A Compliance Pack of 16 courses covers rules such as PCI, HIPAA and GDPR, for teams that must show regulation-specific training.
Lessons by role and industry
The Training+ tier adds content aimed at particular roles and industries, plus best-practice lessons on using AI tools at work.
Safe phish in real inboxes
Phishing simulations come with the base tier, checking whether staff apply the fortnightly lessons when a lure looks genuine.
One click to flag a phish
A Report Phishing button gives every employee a single, consistent action for suspicious mail, whether simulated or real.
Lures written for your firm
Training+ unlocks custom phishing scenarios, so tests can copy the suppliers, tools and requests your own staff actually see.
Arctic Wolf keeps the cadence
Delivery is fully managed by Arctic Wolf, so lessons and simulations keep arriving without an internal admin building each round.
Straight from the inbox
Lessons land by email and open without credentials, removing the portal step where many awareness programmes lose their learners.
Results for managers
Manager reporting and a maturity programme show leaders where things stand; Training+ adds lesson download for an existing LMS.
Watch Arctic Wolf Aurora Security Awareness and Training in action
Arctic Wolf’s overview, a getting-started walkthrough and LMS export, all recorded under the former Managed Security Awareness name (2024–2025).
Overview of Arctic Wolf Managed Security Awareness
Arctic Wolf’s own tour of the service, recorded under its former name, Managed Security Awareness.
How to Get Started with Arctic Wolf Managed Security Awareness
The first steps for a new customer, filmed before the product took the Aurora name.
How to Download Arctic Wolf Managed Security Awareness Content for your LMS
Exporting lessons into your own learning management system, a Training+ feature, shown under the old name.
Want a live, India-context walkthrough for your environment?
Book a guided demo →Awareness programmes fade when the admin moves on. Arctic Wolf keeps the lessons arriving every fortnight.
Here’s what genuinely sets it apart — and exactly where it stops.
Training that keeps arriving on its own
Awareness programmes usually stall because someone inside has to build each round. Arctic Wolf delivers this one fully managed: a lesson of about three minutes lands in every inbox each fortnight, with phishing simulations beside it, so the rhythm survives holidays and staff turnover.
Nothing to log in to
Lessons arrive by email and open without credentials, so staff never hunt for a learning-portal password before they can start. A short session every fortnight keeps one idea in front of people at a time, in place of a yearly hour-long course that most employees click through and forget.
The SOC and the training from one vendor
Awareness training sits inside the Security Operations Plus and Total bundles and the August 2026 Cyber Resilience offering, next to Aurora MDR. Arctic Wolf says MDR customers saw phishing-related incident tickets fall 36% within four months; that is its own figure, not an independent study.
Where it stops
Arctic Wolf publishes no price, language list or per-person risk score for this product, and documents no India data region. Custom content, custom phishing and LMS export need Training+. It teaches people and filters no mail, so Microsoft 365 or a gateway must still stop most phishing.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Arctic Wolf awareness rollout looks like
Set the baseline
Pull last quarter’s phishing-related tickets and any past click rates, so the first months of lessons have a yardstick.
Choose base or Training+
Decide whether stock lessons suffice or you need custom lures, role content and LMS export, which all mean Training+.
Let the emails through
Allow-list Arctic Wolf’s lesson and simulation mail in your filter, load the staff list, and brief managers on reports.
Read the first reports
See who opened the fortnightly lessons and who reported or clicked the first simulations, then follow up team by team.
Compare tickets with the baseline
Set phishing tickets against week one; Arctic Wolf’s own MDR-customer figure was a 36% drop by month four.
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“Three-minute lessons by email got our plant supervisors trained; the old portal course never got past their login screen.”
“Arctic Wolf already ran our SOC, so taking training in the Plus bundle meant no fresh vendor review for procurement.”
“Our two-person IT team no longer builds phishing tests. Arctic Wolf keeps the fortnightly rhythm going without us.”
“The Report Phishing button gave everyone one thing to do, and the helpdesk stopped receiving screenshots of odd mail.”
“We moved to Training+ for custom lures that copy our freight partners’ invoices; the stock tests had stopped fooling anyone.”
“We never got a language list before signing, and the reports felt thin beside the risk scores our last tool gave us.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and G2 retired its Grid. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the security awareness training market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Security Awareness Training Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
Quoted, or bundled with Aurora MDR in Plus and Total.
Hands-off Delivery × Programme Depth
The grid nobody publishes — how much of the programme the vendor runs for you vs how deep its content, simulation and risk scoring go.
Fully managed delivery; reports, no published risk score.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Arctic Wolf Aurora Security Awareness and Training vs the awareness-training field
Against Proofpoint ZenGuide, Mimecast Engage, Sophos Phish Threat, Kaspersky ASAP and TitanHQ SAT — on who runs it, lesson format, simulation, scoring, price, MSP fit and India.
| Dimension | Arctic Wolf Aurora Security Awareness and Training | Proofpoint ZenGuide | Mimecast Engage | Sophos Phish Threat | Kaspersky ASAP | TitanHQ SAT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Managed microlearning | Suite awareness module | Risk-steered training | Tests + lessons, Central | Levelled course platform | Ex-SafeTitan SAT |
| Who runs the programme | Arctic Wolf, fully | Your admin, plus rules | Your admin, risk-led | Admin starts each one | Self-scheduling | TitanHQ, if you opt in |
| Lesson format | 3 minutes, fortnightly | Threat-timed briefings | Sitcom-style videos | Interactive modules | Interval learning | 8–10 minute modules |
| Content breadth | Base + Training+ | 40+ languages | Video plus custom | 100+ modules, 11 langs | Main + express course | Count not published |
| Phishing simulation | Included; custom in + | ThreatFlip, QR, TOAD | Inside the training | 500+ templates | Simulator alongside | Gamified, randomised |
| Report button and users | Report Phishing button | Report Suspicious | APIs, federation | Outlook add-in, AD sync | AD or Excel import | Not documented |
| Risk scoring and reports | Manager reports | Risk scores, benchmarks | Person + company score | Awareness Factor | Per-employee results | Monthly summaries |
| Pricing model | Quote or bundle | Per user, quoted | Per user per year | Per user, one licence | Per user, monthly terms | Per user, quoted |
| Published entry price | Not published | Not published | £6.30–18.50 on G-Cloud | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| Included vs add-on | Training+ is the upgrade | Suite unlocks features | Filtering sold apart | In Sophos Email | Courses + simulator | Shield or Complete |
| MSP and multi-tenant | Via 2,700+ partners | Enterprise-first | Single organisation | MSP Flex billing | Multi-tenant, MSP | Built for MSPs |
| Data hosting and India | No India region | India data centre | UK on G-Cloud | US, UK or Germany | Pick at sign-up | None listed |
| Support and trial | Managed; ask on trial | Premium Services | 24/7 phone, 30-day PoC | 30 days, 100 users | Free trial | Partner support, trial |
| Best fit | Arctic Wolf MDR estates | Proofpoint email estates | Mimecast estates | Sophos Email buyers | Levelled, automated path | MSPs, small clients |
Which approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose Arctic Wolf Aurora Security Awareness and Training if…
- ✓Your SOC already runs on Aurora MDR and you would rather add training to the same Arctic Wolf bundle than vet another vendor
- ✓Nobody on your team has time to build phishing rounds, and you want lessons and tests delivered as a managed service
- ✓Staff resist portals, and a three-minute lesson that opens straight from email has a better chance of being finished
Compare alternatives if…
- ✓You want per-person risk scores and industry benchmarks — Proofpoint ZenGuide and Mimecast Engage both document them
- ✓Training records must sit in India — Proofpoint runs an India data centre, while Arctic Wolf documents no India region
- ✓You are an MSP training many small clients — Sophos MSP Flex, Kaspersky ASAP and TitanHQ SAT are built for multi-tenant use
Do not expect…
- ✓A price list for training, or an AWS Marketplace offer like the ones Arctic Wolf posts for MDR and endpoint
- ✓A published language list, or custom phishing and LMS export without paying for Training+
- ✓An analyst ranking for this product — the IDC and Frost Leader placements belong to Arctic Wolf’s MDR
TechBag has no security awareness training guide yet, so Arctic Wolf Aurora Security Awareness and Training sits outside the category guides. Browse all products to compare it with the rest of the catalogue. →
What does a self-run awareness programme cost you?
Drag the sliders (staff enrolled; IT-hour cost). Estimates model the IT time spent scheduling lessons, building phishing rounds and chasing people who never finish at an assumed 1.5 hours per employee a year, with 70% of it taken off your team by a service Arctic Wolf delivers. Both figures are assumptions. Illustrative.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models your actual environment and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Not published: Arctic Wolf prints no price for awareness training, and its only public offers are AWS Marketplace listings for Aurora MDR and Managed Endpoint Defense. Training is quoted on its own, or included in the Security Operations Plus and Total bundles and the Cyber Resilience offering beside Aurora MDR. Training+ is the upper tier. TechBag gets it quoted for your headcount, then bills in INR with GST.
Base tier
Best for teams that want training run for them
- Quoted; no public rate
- 3-minute lessons by email every two weeks
- Phishing tests and a Report Phishing button
+ Platform add-ons
Best for a broader rollout
- Scoped to your estate
- Add-on modules as needed
- Phased, right-sized deployment
Training+
Best for teams that need their own content
- Quoted; the upper tier
- Custom content and custom phishing
- Role, industry and AI lessons; LMS download
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
Get an India-ready quote
Tell us your requirements and current tools — we’ll model it against what you spend today.
The 8 questions to ask every vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Do you need custom content, custom phishing, AI and role lessons or LMS export? Those sit in Training+, not the base tier.
Are you buying Aurora MDR as well? Security Operations Plus and Total include awareness training, so price both routes.
What stops the bulk of phishing — Microsoft 365, a gateway or another filter — given this service blocks no mail?
Will lesson and simulation emails reach inboxes? Add Arctic Wolf’s sending details to your filter’s allow list first.
Are lessons available in the languages your staff read? Arctic Wolf publishes no language list, so ask in writing.
Which regulations must you evidence? Check that the 16-course Compliance Pack covers them and appears in your quote.
Where will staff names, emails and results be stored? No India region exists, so get the location into the contract.
Does the quote state tier, headcount, term and any bundle? Ask TechBag for the figure in INR with GST.
Questions buyers ask
Ready to evaluate Arctic Wolf Aurora Security Awareness and Training?
Record your phishing tickets and click rate first, or let a TechBag advisor price training alone against a Security Operations bundle with Aurora MDR.
Stats, ratings, review counts and pricing are illustrative and sourced from public materials; verify before purchase.