Education Security Awareness Training

Increased targeting of schools and districts
Ransomware, phishing and BEC attacks continue to rise across K–12 and higher education.
Human behavior remains the primary risk
Staff, faculty and students are frequent targets for identity-based and social engineering attacks.
Limited staff and security resources
Small IT teams struggle to manage alerts, tools, training and incident response workloads.
Fragmented and outdated security tools
Disconnected email, training and reporting systems create gaps attackers can exploit.
Expanding compliance and data privacy demands
FERPA, state privacy laws and funding requirements add documentation and oversight burdens.

Stronger Security, Lower Operational Burden For Education

A unified platform helps education IT teams reduce risk, streamline operations and strengthen resilience—without adding complexity or workload.

Fewer incidents and compromised accounts

Significant drop in phishing-driven breaches and account takeovers across students, staff and faculty

Faster, more efficient incident response

Automated alert triage and unified email analysis reduce false positives and speed investigations

Reduced IT and SOC workload through automation

Consolidated reporting, user insights and automated workflows ease the burden on small teams

Consistent protection across campuses and departments

A unified approach delivers scalable, repeatable security across K–12 districts and higher-ed institutions

KnowBe4's Human Risk Management Platform (HRM+)

HRM+ is a comprehensive, AI-driven “best-of-suite” platform that fortifies user behavior against security threats. It comprises:

Security Awareness Training
Cloud Email Security
Anti-Phishing Defense
Real-Time Coaching
Compliance Training
AI Defense Agents

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Reduce risk where it starts:
human and agentic decisions.

KnowBe4 protects your most vulnerable attack surface: humans, and now their AI agents too. Discover how our end-to-end platform thwarts threats by weaving risk deterrence into everyone's workday:

Security Awareness Training

Change behavior. Build resilience.

Go beyond check-the-box training. Deliver timely, personalized education that helps people recognize and resist evolving threats.

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Cloud Email Security

Block threats before they ever hit the inbox.

Our layered cloud defenses spot and stop phishing, malware, and social engineering attacks—no tuning, no guesswork, just smarter protection where it matters most.

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AI Defense Agents

Spot human risk before it strikes.

Leverage behavior-based intelligence and real-time insights to detect risky actions — and stop them cold with Agentic AI defense responses.

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Agent Risk Manager

Secure your AI agent workforce.

Eliminate AI security blind spots with real-time visibility, automated threat detection, and active AI agent control.

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Platform Overview

Secure the Digital Workforce: Human + AI

KnowBe4 empowers the modern workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 is the pioneer of digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans. The KnowBe4 Platform provides attack simulation and training, collaboration security, and agent security powered by AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score. The platform leverages 15 years of behavioral data to combat advanced threats including social engineering, prompt injection, and shadow AI. By securing humans and agents, KnowBe4 leads the industry in workforce trust and defense.

Meeting Evolving Education Compliance Needs

Schools and higher-ed institutions face growing compliance and data-privacy pressures. The KnowBe4 Platform streamlines oversight, automates evidence collection, and strengthens the controls needed to meet evolving regulations with limited staff and resources.

FERPA

Student education record privacy and disclosure controls

HIPAA (where applicable)

Protection of student and staff health information

State privacy laws (e.g., CCPA/CPRA, Virginia CDPA, others)

Data rights, consent and disclosure requirements

NIST CSF & NIST SP 800-53 (adopted by many institutions)

Cybersecurity controls and risk management frameworks

IRS Publication 1075

Safeguards for federal tax information handled by schools

GLBA (for higher education)

Financial data protection and annual security program requirements

Section 508 / ADA

Accessibility standards for digital learning systems and public-facing platforms

One Platform to Secure Students, Educators and School Networks

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