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For Teams Outgrowing Legacy SAT
The AI-native KnowBe4 alternative.
Cimento is the human and agent risk management platform for security teams that have outgrown annual training, email-only phishing tests, and completion-rate reporting.
Why Teams Look for an Alternative
The doubt that starts the search.
Most teams don’t leave their SAT vendor because it broke. They leave because they can’t answer one question: is human risk actually going down?
01
Completion isn’t protection
Annual training gets completed. Simulated emails get clicked or not clicked. Neither tells you who would wire money after a convincing phone call.
02
Attackers left email years ago
Vishing, smishing, executive impersonation, and AI-generated lures dominate modern social engineering. Email-only simulation measures a shrinking slice of the threat.
03
Everyone is scored the same
A CFO and an intern should not be treated as the same risk. Click-rate scoring ignores who has access attackers actually want.
04
Employees tune it out
Recycled templates and hour-long modules train people to click “Next,” not to spot an attack. Engagement decays a little more every year.
05
Admin burden keeps growing
Lean security teams spend hours building campaigns, chasing completions, and exporting activity reports nobody reads.
06
The board wants a risk number
“98% completed training” is not a risk metric. Boards and insurers increasingly ask for evidence of measurable risk reduction.
How Cimento Is Different
Built for measurable risk reduction.
Multi-channel simulation, by default
Email, SMS, voice, and AI-enabled impersonation scenarios that reflect how attackers operate now — scoped and approved by you, adapted to each role.
Role-based risk scoring
Cimento models exposure, behavior, and resilience together: who is likely to fail, and who has the access that makes failure expensive. Remediation is prioritized by business impact.
Training at the moment of failure
60–90 second micro-modules delivered at the point of failure, adapted to what the employee actually did. No campaign calendar to manage.
Board-ready risk trends
One risk index, tracked over time, broken down by role and channel — the report your leadership already asks for, produced by the platform without spreadsheet work.
Before You Decide
Run the numbers before you decide.
Run a 14-day Human Risk Baseline alongside your current program. See what it’s missing before you renew — or before you replace it.
RUNS ALONGSIDE KNOWBE4. NO MIGRATION REQUIRED.
At a Glance
Legacy SAT vs. Cimento.
Capabilities of legacy platforms vary by product tier and change over time; verify specifics against current vendor documentation. Rows describe common patterns reported by teams running legacy SAT programs.
Switching Is the Easy Part
No compliance gap. No big-bang cutover.
Teams typically run Cimento alongside their existing program, validate results, and cut over at renewal with a 30/60/90-day plan.
Compliance parity. Training coverage for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and cyber insurance attestations continues uninterrupted.
Historical data. Export your existing completion and phishing history; Cimento ingests it as baseline context.
Integrations. HRIS, identity (Okta, Entra), email (Google Workspace, M365), Slack/Teams, and SIEM connectors.
Stakeholder rollout. Templates for announcing the change to employees, executives, and auditors.
FAQ
What security teams ask us.
Is Cimento a full replacement for KnowBe4?
Will we lose our compliance training coverage if we switch?
How is Cimento's risk score different from a click rate?
Do employees get more training, or less?
What does switching actually involve?
We're mid-contract. Is it too early to look?
See what your program is missing.
14 days. Under an hour of setup. A board-ready report either way.