Public Sector Security Awareness Training

Dispersed, high-risk workforce
Limited visibility into human behavior makes it hard to detect and reduce risk.
Chronic resource constraints
Lean teams struggle to manage training, compliance and human-risk reduction at scale.
Rising social engineering threats
Attackers increasingly target staff, vendors and elected officials to gain access.
Complex, overlapping compliance demands
Manual evidence collection and audits drain time, budgets and security resources.

Real Value for Public Sector Agencies

A unified human risk management platform helps agencies cut manual effort, strengthen resilience and deliver measurable security and compliance outcomes.

Lower operational and training costs

Automated workflows, integrated content and centralized reporting reduce time spent managing fragmented tools.

Fewer human-driven incidents

Significant reductions in compromised accounts and social engineering-related breaches.

Faster, more accurate incident response

Behavior insights reduce false positives and help teams act quickly on the threats that matter.

Demonstrable risk reduction for leaders

Clear metrics show progress to executives, auditors and oversight bodies.

Lower SOC workload through automation

Automated evidence capture, alerts and reporting lighten the load on already stretched teams.

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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KnowBe4 HRM+

KnowBe4 HRM+ is your single platform to identify, measure and reduce human risk. Backed by 15+ years of behavioral data, HRM+ combines industry-leading cloud email security with AI-powered security awareness training to transform your largest attack surface — your employees — into your strongest defense.

Security Awareness Training

AI-powered security awareness training and simulated social engineering that allows organizations to drive awareness and change user behavior

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Anti-Phishing

Incident response and orchestration anti-phishing product that allows security teams to identify and stop phishing threats before they reach your users’ inboxes

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Real-Time Coaching

Real-time security coaching product that detects and responds to risky end user behavior to provide immediate feedback

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Cloud Email Security

The only email security infrastructure to continually assess human risk and dynamically adapt security controls

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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.

Compliance & Regulatory Obligations

Public sector organizations face a highly complex regulatory landscape. KnowBe4 HRM+ strengthens compliance by unifying policy management, automated evidence capture, workforce controls and oversight.

NIST SP 800-53

Security and privacy controls for federal information systems

FedRAMP

Standardized security assessment and authorization for cloud services

FISMA

Federal information security management and reporting requirements

CJIS Security Policy

Criminal justice data protection rules for law enforcement

HIPAA (where applicable)

Protection of health information handled by agencies

IRS Publication 1075

Safeguards for federal tax information

State-level privacy laws

(e.g., CCPA/CPRA, Virginia CDPA) – Data rights and disclosure controls

OMB Circular A-130

Federal information resource management requirements

DoD RMF / DFARS 7012

(for defense or partners) – Safeguarding controlled unclassified information

Section 508 / ADA digital accessibility

Accessibility standards for public-facing systems

A Unified Defense for Your People, Data and Mission

Key Challenges Facing Public Sector Organizations

Real Value for Public Sector Agencies

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What our customers say

A 75% Improvement in Phish-prone™ Percentage Using KnowBe4

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