Living Security

What Living Security actually does

Living Security approaches security awareness as a human risk management problem rather than a training compliance checkbox. The platform includes two main components: gamified training content and a behavioral analytics engine that scores individual risk across the organization.

The training side uses interactive scenarios, escape-room-style challenges, and team-based competitions instead of the usual click-through slide decks. The goal is engagement — people actually remember what they learned. The content covers phishing, social engineering, data handling, and physical security.

The behavioral analytics side — the Unify platform — aggregates signals from security tools (email gateway, endpoint, DLP, IAM) to build a human risk score per employee. This goes beyond “who clicked a phishing simulation” to “who is consistently exhibiting risky behavior across multiple systems.” The score drives targeted training and intervention.

Who it’s best for

• Organizations where traditional security awareness training has low engagement and completion rates
• Security teams that want to quantify human risk beyond phishing click rates
• Enterprises with enough security tooling to feed behavioral signals into a risk scoring platform
• Companies in regulated industries needing demonstrable security culture improvements
• CISOs who need to report on human risk to the board in terms beyond “we trained 95% of employees”

Pricing reality check

Living Security prices based on employee count and which modules you deploy. The gamified training alone is priced competitively with KnowBe4 and Proofpoint Security Awareness. Adding the behavioral analytics platform increases cost significantly.

To get real value from the Unify behavioral platform, you need integrations with your email, endpoint, identity, and DLP tools. Factor in the integration effort and potential professional services cost when budgeting. The training-only option is simpler to deploy and justify.

Alternatives to consider

• KnowBe4 — Market leader in security awareness. Massive content library and phishing simulation. Less behavioral analytics.
• Proofpoint Security Awareness — Strong if you already use Proofpoint for email. Good threat-informed training content.
• NINJIO — Short-form video content based on real breaches. Simpler, focused on engagement.
• Elevate Security — More focused on human risk scoring and behavioral analytics. Less training content.

The Charting Cyber take

Living Security is trying to move security awareness from a compliance exercise to an operational risk management function. The gamified training genuinely works better than traditional CBT — people engage with it, which is half the battle. The behavioral analytics vision is the right direction for the industry.

The gap is maturity. The behavioral scoring depends on integrations that take effort to build and maintain. If you just need better training content and phishing simulations, KnowBe4 has a larger library and more mature platform. If you want to start measuring human risk as a quantifiable metric, Living Security is worth piloting — just be realistic about the integration investment.