With 68% of breaches still involving a non-malicious human element (Verizon DBIR 2024), HailBytes SAT - a self-hosted enterprise phishing-simulation and training platform with recurring campaigns, interactive quizzes, and auto-generated branded certificates of completion - is now available on AWS Marketplace and Azure Marketplace with hourly pricing, unlimited campaigns for unlimited users, and a 30-day free trial.
(PRUnderground) May 7th, 2026
The 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report found that 68% of breaches still involve a non-malicious human element – a clicked phishing link, a reused password, a moment of misplaced trust. A decade into the security awareness training market, that number has barely moved.
HailBytes, LLC, a Delaware-registered cloud security company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, today announced the general availability of HailBytes Security Awareness Training Platform (HailBytes SAT) on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace and the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The platform is engineered for security teams that need to measure human risk, document recurring training, and produce audit-ready evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS reviewers – without sending employee data to a third-party SaaS vendor. New customers can deploy HailBytes SAT in their own cloud account with a 30-day free trial, hourly pricing, and unlimited campaigns for unlimited users.
Unlike SaaS phishing-simulation products that store employee data on vendor infrastructure and tie deliverability to a shared sender reputation, HailBytes SAT runs entirely inside the customer’s own AWS or Azure account, with their own VPC, security groups, retention policies, sender domains, and OIDC identity provider. The platform is distributed under the Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2), giving customers full source availability so they can inspect, modify, and self-host the platform on infrastructure they control.
Key capabilities of HailBytes SAT include:
– Recurring training campaigns scheduled on a monthly, quarterly, or annual cadence, with per-user and per-group compliance tracking across every campaign.
– Interactive landing-page quizzes with real-time feedback that explain correct answers in the moment, turning a clicked phishing simulation into an immediate learning event.
– Auto-generated branded PDF certificates of completion with employee name, training title, and completion date – ready to hand to auditors as documented training evidence.
– A structured audit log capturing every campaign launch, export, and admin action, exportable to JSON or CSV (with REST API and webhooks for live SIEM/SOAR streaming) for direct SIEM ingestion.
– Modernized infrastructure with hardened deployment pipelines, refreshed TLS and SMTP configuration, MFA/TOTP, OIDC SSO (Microsoft Entra ID, Google), and custom branding controls.
“SOC 2 auditors and cyber-insurance underwriters now ask whether you ran phishing simulations last quarter, not whether you have a security awareness program on paper,” said David McHale, Founder of HailBytes. “That shifts SAT from an HR line item into a procurement-required control. We built HailBytes SAT so security teams can satisfy that requirement with documented per-employee training and audit-ready evidence – and keep all of it inside their own cloud account. The 30-day free trial on AWS and Azure lets them prove the value before they commit.”
By the numbers:
– 3,000+ HailBytes deployments worldwide
– 68%: share of breaches that still involve a non-malicious human element in 2024 (Verizon DBIR)
– $4.88M: average global cost of a data breach in 2024 (IBM)
– $0.24/vCPU/hour: HailBytes SAT starting price – unlimited campaigns and users on a single subscription, no per-seat fees
– 30 days: free trial length on both AWS Marketplace and Azure Marketplace
HailBytes SAT is available immediately on the AWS Marketplace at https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-yyk6iton3ghu4 and on the Azure Marketplace at https://marketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/product/virtual-machines/lcmcon1687976613543.gophish-phishing-simulator. Pricing starts at $0.24 per vCPU per hour. Customers pay only for the cloud infrastructure they use; there are no per-seat license fees, and a single marketplace subscription runs unlimited campaigns for unlimited users. Standard support is included; priority support and managed-service options are available through the HailBytes Cloud Support Hub.
Media Contact:
David McHale, Founder
HailBytes
david@hailbytes.com
https://hailbytes.com/press/
About HailBytes
HailBytes is a Denver, Colorado cybersecurity company purpose-built for MSSPs and modern security teams who need to do more with fewer hands.
Its two cloud marketplace products – HailBytes SAT (Security Awareness Training) and HailBytes ASM (Attack Surface Management) – automate the highest-volume, highest-toil workflows in security operations: phishing simulation, awareness training, external reconnaissance, and exposure triage.
Both deploy in minutes inside the customer’s own AWS or Azure account at $0.24 per vCPU/hour, with Free, Professional ($550/month), and Enterprise ($1,650/month) support tiers. Trusted on 3,000+ deployments worldwide, HailBytes gives operator teams the leverage of an enterprise security stack without the enterprise procurement cycle – or the risk of handing customer data to yet another third-party SaaS.
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