Case Study
How an MSP Migrated 57 Clients from KnowBe4 to Phin in Just 4 Hours
As Resonant Technology Partners continued growing, managing security awareness training across dozens of clients became increasingly time-consuming. The team needed a platform that would scale with them, not create more administrative work. After switching from KnowBe4 to Phin Security, Resonant migrated 57 companies and more than 3,000 users in just four hours, making security awareness management drastically easier.
Why Resonant Switched from KnowBe4 to Phin
“[Phin is] very simple and self-explanatory... There are a lot of useful features that weren’t in KnowBe4 or other solutions we looked at." - Ethan Earl, Director of Automation
While KnowBe4 provided the security awareness training Resonant needed, administering the platform became a challenge as the company grew.
The interface was overly complicated, campaigns were difficult to manage across multiple clients, and deploying standardized training across customers required far too much manual work. Resonant wanted a platform that would simplify administration while allowing them to continue scaling efficiently.
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Challenges
- The interface was overly complex for day-to-day administration.
- Standardizing training across dozens of clients required significant manual effort.
- Creating customized training for individual customers added even more administrative overhead.
- Long, annual training didn’t feel fresh or engaging.
- Difficult to set up multilingual training, specifically content in Spanish.
Phin's Solution
"The migration in total was very simple. We had it completely ready to be deployed within four hours of receiving the platform... [It] would have taken, I estimate, multiple weeks with KnowBe4 and a lot of headache." - Ethan Earl, Resonant Technology Partner
Due to Phin’s simplicity, administrator onboarding was easy. One team member completed Phin's onboarding, documented the process internally, and trained the remaining administrators with minimal effort.
After implementing Phin, Resonant configured the Microsoft Azure sync to quickly add all users and automatically keep them updated. Then, rather than creating separate campaigns for every client, Resonant built a shared campaign once and deployed it across every applicable customer. When individual clients require customized training, those campaigns are created in just a few minutes without disrupting the standard deployment.
Onboarding campaigns are automatically sent to new users to assign security awareness training and organization-specific onboarding content, and Phin automatically enrolls them in the appropriate ongoing training.
Instead of rebuilding campaigns every year, training automatically rotates through selected categories, pulling from 15 years' worth of content. This ensures users continue receiving fresh content while reducing ongoing administrative work.
Phin sends shorter, monthly training to improve relevance and engagement. Automated reporting keeps customer leadership informed while allowing clients—not the MSP—to manage employee accountability.
Results
"We configured the campaign a single time and then were able to apply that to the applicable companies... it saved us a ton of time." - Ethan Earl, Resonant Technology Partner
Resonant now spends very little time maintaining security awareness training and as they continue growing, onboarding new customers will remain a quick, repeatable process instead of a lengthy deployment project.
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Over 3,000 users across 57 clients were deployed with ongoing training in just 4 hours. Resonant estimates this would’ve taken weeks with KnowBe4.
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Resonant spends practically no time managing the platform outside of adding new users.
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Resonant receives more positive client feedback on the shorter, monthly trainings and has no issues launching multilingual content.
"There’s really no maintenance outside of adding new clients... It saved us a ton of time, and we're happy we switched."
Ethan Earl
Director of Automation, Resonant Technology Partners
Features, Updates, or Changes Resonant Technology Partners Wants to See
The only enhancement Resonant requested was greater flexibility when customizing onboarding emails. Specifically, they would like the ability to use custom HTML templates so onboarding communications better match their organization's branding and formatting standards.