Recognizing the top performer in key growth areas at annual awards ceremony
KnowBe4, the world-renowned cybersecurity platform that comprehensively addresses human risk management, today announced that it has presented NEC Corporation (hereinafter, NEC) with the "Honorary Partner Award" at the KnowBe4 Partner Day.
This special partner award recognizes NEC's outstanding achievements in the fiscal year 2025, specifically for being a top performer among all of KnowBe4's Japanese partners, and for successfully securing the largest single KnowBe4 product deal in Japan.
KnowBe4 highly commends NEC for its proactive efforts in proposing and strongly promoting the adoption of our security awareness training solution to our important customer base in Japan. This is recognized as an absolutely crucial contribution to permeating KnowBe4's mission—"to empower organizations to strengthen security culture through our agentic AI-driven human risk management (HRM +) platform"—into the Japanese market.
"We sincerely appreciate NEC's unparalleled performance and deep commitment to proposing our solutions to strategic customers,” said Kazuhiro Chikara, Japan General Manager, KnowBe4. “This special award is not only an acknowledgment of sales results, but also a recognition of NEC's proactive initiative in helping our customers enhance their security culture. KnowBe4 is committed to further deepening our partnership with NEC and contributing to solving the cybersecurity challenges faced by Japanese enterprises."
KnowBe4 will continue to build strong cooperative relationships, including with NEC, and endeavor to strengthen ties with all its Japanese partners, thereby contributing to the realization of a safer digital society.
For more information on KnowBe4 Japan, visit knowbe4.com/ja/.
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KnowBe4 empowers workforces to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by over 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 helps to strengthen security culture and manage human risk. KnowBe4 offers a comprehensive AI-driven ‘best-of-suite’ platform for Human Risk Management, creating an adaptive defense layer that fortifies user behavior against the latest cybersecurity threats. The HRM+ platform includes modules for awareness & compliance training, cloud email security, real-time coaching, crowdsourced anti-phishing, AI Defense Agents, and more. As the only global security platform of its kind, KnowBe4 utilizes personalized and relevant cybersecurity protection content, tools and techniques to mobilize workforces to transform from the largest attack surface to an organization’s biggest asset. More info at knowbe4.com.
