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A consultative evaluation guide for security teams

Doppel vs. Adaptive Security

Adaptive Security modernizes the training. Doppel reduces human risk across every channel attackers use.

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What is Adaptive Security?

Adaptive Security is a security awareness training platform focused on training courses, phishing simulations, and employee awareness of modern cyber and social engineering attacks.

Best for

Organizations looking to upgrade from legacy security awareness training programs to offer new and updated training courses, scale custom content creation, and test employee readiness through phishing simulations. Suited for SAT teams who want to be extremely hands-on and responsible for managing the platform.

Where they're a strong fit

Adaptive is suited for teams that want to upgrade their security awareness training program from legacy solutions, focusing on expanded phishing simulation capabilities.

Where buyers tell us they fall short

  • Buyers evaluating human risk management solutions may find that Adaptive Security’s multi-channel simulation capabilities, deliverability, and reliance on call-back or text-back scenarios do not fully meet their needs for enterprise-scale campaigns that reflect a broader range of modern attacker tactics.
  • Video-conferencing simulations remain relatively early in maturity. Organizations looking to test live, interactive social engineering scenarios across Microsoft Teams and Zoom Meetings should evaluate whether the offering is mature enough to support their program requirements.
  • Organizations may also find limited enterprise deployment support and limited social engineering subject matter expertise, with fewer applied cybersecurity and forward-deployed resources needed to help design, operationalize, and scale complex human risk programs.
  • Training and simulation content are not threat-informed and rely on templates. Doppel informs training and simulation recommendations with attacker activity observed through its DRP platform.
  • Teams also need separate solutions to monitor impersonation, brand abuse, executive targeting, and malicious infrastructure outside their environment.

Side by side

Doppel vs. Adaptive Security feature comparison

Doppel
ADAPTIVE SECURITY
Multi-channel simulations
Simulates realistic attacks across email, voice calls, SMS, Telegram, Microsoft Teams Meetings, and Zoom Meetings. Simulations include live, deepfake-enabled voice and video calls. Doppel offers a 95+% deliverability rate for SMS and voice-based simulations.
Limited. Offers outbound voice and SMS phishing simulations, but buyers should assess SMS and voice deliverability rates. Real-time transcripts and policy-based performance benchmarking are not available, creating additional manual effort to assess outcomes. Video-conferencing simulations also remain relatively early in maturity. Ask Adaptive to demonstrate the live Teams/Zoom scenarios your program requires.
AI-generated simulation campaigns
Vibe phishing simulations allow customers to simulate a scenario by entering a simple, natural-language prompt. Doppel also offers a library of thousands of simulation templates, and OSINT-backed recommendations based on a company’s specific tech stack, industry, and org structure.
Limited. Reliant on templates and limited customization. Compare prompt-based customization and supported workflows.
Custom training content
AI Content Builder creates high-quality, fully custom courses in minutes, complete with video, interactive components, metrics, and more. Doppel’s team of experts also partners directly with customers to create studio-quality content.
Limited. AI Content Studio allows companies to create AI-generated training content in a few clicks, though quality can require additional prompting and iteration. Training does not include AI avatars throughout the experience; AI video is limited to introductions, with course content narrated by a single AI voice.
Training content library
Library of hundreds of courses covers every topic, tech stack, and compliance framework through video courses, interactive content, and immersive 3D worlds or games. Customers can also add custom branding to any course.
Yes. Robust library of content including celebrity-led training content with the ability for customers to add dynamic branding.
Risk Signal Ingestion
Ingests signals and risky behavior from across the security stack to measure human risk and focus training, simulation, and technical controls where they matter most.
Not supported. Risk scoring is based primarily on training completion and simulation performance, offering an incremental improvement over click-rate metrics.
Customer experience
Doppel backs its agentic platform with a dedicated solution architecture team that brings decades of experience. This allows customers to benefit from both a powerful simulation engine and the peace of mind that comes from having subject-matter experts that act as an extension of your team.
Limited. Customers are responsible for creating and running training and simulation campaigns, with limited support and limited access to expert guidance.

Due diligence

Questions to ask any Human Risk Management vendor

These help security teams evaluate fit regardless of which solution they're considering.

  1. 01Which channels can you run outbound simulations on (direct to target users), and what is the deliverability rate?
  2. 02What is the process for running campaigns in multiple languages?
  3. 03Can you support concurrent voice calls, and what scale can you achieve?
  4. 04How do you measure and build resilience within the helpdesk or contact center?
  5. 05What is the process for creating custom simulations or training content?
  6. 06How do you ensure that the simulation campaigns, template library, and training content are grounded in actual attacker tactics?

Why security teams choose Doppel over Adaptive Security

Doppel simulation builder generating a chained email and voice phishing campaign

Multi-channel, reliably

Doppel can run live, dynamic simulations across voice calls, SMS, email, video-meeting impersonation, and QR with configurable chained flows and a 95%+ deliverability rate.

Doppel AI content builder creating custom training from source material

AI-powered personalization, at scale

Doppel provides OSINT-backed recommendations for an expansive range of organizations, roles, and tech stacks based on intel gathered by reconnaissance agents, and dynamically translates campaigns in 100+ languages.

Threat-informed simulation campaign chaining voice, URL, and email steps

Threat-informed social engineering defense

As a unified agentic social engineering defense platform, Doppel proactively recommends training and simulation campaigns based on actual attacker tactics and ingests signals across the tech stack to model human risk, building resilience against modern threats.

What Doppel customers say

“Doppel fundamentally changed how we think about human risk. It’s not just about running better simulations, it’s about testing how attacks actually happen across channels. The Microsoft Teams simulation campaign showed us where our real exposure was, and gave us a way to measure and improve it. That’s the difference between a program that looks good on paper and one that actually reduces risk.”

Jason MartinCo-CEO & Co-Founder, Permiso

Permiso
“We found Doppel to be much more intuitive and less clunky, with stronger deepfake and voice capabilities and a broader platform overall. It felt more equipped for where the threat landscape is heading.”

Security Leader, Enterprise Technology Company

6+ Channels
Email, voice, SMS, Teams, Zoom & messaging apps
* Doppel
100%
Of targeted employees believed an AI voice clone was a real executive
* Doppel
442%
Increase in vishing attacks year over year
* CrowdStrike
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FAQs

What is the difference between Doppel and Adaptive Security?
Doppel and Adaptive Security both help organizations improve employee resilience to social engineering, but they take different approaches. Adaptive Security focuses on updated security awareness training, custom content creation, and phishing simulations. Doppel combines tailored security awareness training with live, multi-channel simulations across email, SMS, voice, and collaboration tools, together with risk modeling. While Adaptive Security emphasizes modernizing training programs, Doppel is designed to help organizations build resilience against realistic attacker tactics and manage human risk across a broader set of signals and channels.
Is Doppel an alternative to Adaptive Security?
Yes. Security teams evaluating Adaptive Security for awareness training, phishing simulation, or human risk management may also consider Doppel. Adaptive Security can be a strong fit for teams that prioritize customizable training content and hands-on campaign management. Doppel is designed for organizations that want broader simulation coverage, AI-powered personalization, risk signal ingestion, and a threat-informed approach to social engineering defense.
Which platform supports multi-channel phishing simulations?
Both platforms extend beyond traditional email phishing, but their channel coverage and delivery models differ. Doppel supports simulations across email, SMS, live voice calls, Telegram, Microsoft Teams Meetings, and Zoom Meetings, including configurable multi-step scenarios. Buyers should compare not only which channels are listed, but whether simulations are inbound or outbound, their deliverability, available languages, and how closely they replicate real attacker behavior.
How do Doppel and Adaptive Security approach human risk management?
Adaptive Security’s employee risk scoring approach emphasizes training completion and simulation activity. Doppel combines training and simulation behavior with risk signals from across the security stack. This is designed to help organizations identify higher-risk users and use those signals to focus simulations, training, and other controls where they can have the greatest impact.
How do Doppel and Adaptive Security differ in simulation personalization?
Adaptive Security offers customizable phishing simulations and training content. Doppel adds AI-powered campaign creation through natural-language prompting, along with OSINT-backed recommendations based on an organization’s industry, technology stack, and structure. These capabilities allow security teams to create tailored scenarios while supplementing predefined templates.
Does Doppel provide security awareness training?
Yes. Doppel provides a robust library of security awareness training covering common security, technology, and compliance topics, alongside custom content creation capabilities. Doppel also offers custom training content creation both through its AI Content Builder and advisory services. Its human risk management solution connects training with its risk modeling and simulation capabilities so organizations can tailor education based on employee risk and social engineering scenarios.
What should companies compare when evaluating phishing simulation platforms?
Companies should look beyond template volume or training completion rates. Important factors include supported channels, outbound deliverability, simulation realism, multilingual support, customization, risk signal ingestion, and the amount of operational effort required to run campaigns. Security teams should also consider whether simulations reflect current attacker tactics and whether the platform can adapt as social engineering techniques evolve.