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Hook Security

55Judge labels

19First choices

0Negative labels

12 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Best standing

34% in Awareness training for small business buyers

Rank 5 of 65 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger

0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 14 labels there were negative.

By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at enterprise.

Small business1 of 50

under the label threshold

In awareness training · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Hook Security for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Security awareness training	Security operations	4%	5 of 65	0%	14	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Hook Security yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Hook Security across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	0	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	1	3
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1	2

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct10 labels8

Paraphrase9 labels2

Comparative4 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained21 labels6

Scale-constrained6 labels3

Negative5 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative55 labels in all, every segment counted; 19 of the 24 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“I'd start with Hook Security if you want paid + managed, or Wizer if you want the cheapest possible entry point.” GPT-5.4 mini · Awareness training · budget prompt · first choice

“1. Hook Security ($2/seat/month or $999/year flat under 50 seats, fully managed)” Llama 4 Maverick · Awareness training · budget prompt · first choice

“Fully managed (autopilot campaigns, reports); $2/seat/month or $999/year flat (<50 seats). High engagement, near-zero admin.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Awareness training · budget prompt · alternative

“For under 50 employees who want hands-off management, Hook Security's $999/year flat rate is hard to beat.” Kimi K2 · Awareness training · budget prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Hook Security, over the 55 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Hook Security was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

KnowBe449 of 5511Not in the top three

Wizer44 of 5515Not in the top three

Huntress Managed Security Awareness Training31 of 553Not in the top three

CanIPhish31 of 552Not in the top three

Hoxhunt14 of 551Not in the top three

Proofpoint ZenGuide14 of 550Not in the top three

Microsoft Attack Simulation Training10 of 552Not in the top three

GoPhish7 of 550Not in the top three

SoSafe6 of 551Not in the top three

usecure6 of 551Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Hook Security. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 47 of the 55 answers that named Hook Security and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

hooksecurity.coYour site43

hoxhunt.com30

smallbizsecurityguide.com29

adaptivesecurity.com27

learn.g2.com25

expertinsights.com24

easyllama.com17

knowbe4.com16

cipherssecurity.com14

g2.com14

196 of the 239 domain citations in answers naming Hook Security came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

hooksecurity.co/blog/best-security-awareness-training-small-business39

smallbizsecurityguide.com/best-security-awareness-training-platforms-202629

learn.g2.com/best-security-awareness-training-software25

hoxhunt.com/blog/best-security-awareness-training23

easyllama.com/blog/best-security-awareness-training-providers17

expertinsights.com/security-awareness-training/the-top-security-awareness-training-platfor15

adaptivesecurity.com/blog/best-security-awareness-training-small-businesses10

guardey.com/security-awareness-small-business10

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Hook Security

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Hook Security; a claim can dispute any of them.

Hook Security (now part of Huntress) 1

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Hook Security's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Hook Security, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at hooksecurity.co is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.