Honored as a Leader by G2 for Security Awareness Training and Incident Response Software, named AI Initiative of the Year by a Vendor from CRN Asia, Best Newcomer at CRN MES Fall and recognized with sustainability, employer and regional IT excellence awards across the UK, Germany, France and Qatar
KnowBe4, the global leader in digital workforce security, securing both humans and AI agents, today announced it has earned numerous prestigious global accolades in Q3 2026. These awards cover AI innovation, product excellence, customer leadership, sustainability, security awareness training and workplace culture.
"This quarter's recognition reflects our commitment to securing the digital workforce, both humans and AI agents, while building a company and culture our employees are proud of," said Bryan Palma, CEO of KnowBe4. "Being named AI Initiative of the Year from CRN Asia, Best Newcomer at CRN MES Fall, and a Leader in G2's Fall Grid Reports shows our innovation and customer focus are resonating across regions and audiences. We are equally proud of our workplace and sustainability awards, which show that how we operate matters as much for our success as what we build."
The awards that KnowBe4 received in Q3 2026 include:
- Ranked Leader in the G2 Fall Grid Report for Security Awareness Training and Incident Response Software, including the #1 position in Security Awareness Training for seven consecutive years
- CRN Asia Awards: Winner, AI Initiative of the Year by a Vendor
- CRN MES Fall 2026 XCellence Award Winner: Award Winner, Best Newcomer
- CYSEC Qatar Awards: Winner, Best Human Risk Management (HRM) Solution
- L'Informaticien IT Awards (France): Editorial Award, Awareness category
- Statista, Brand Eins (Germany): Recognized as one of the best IT service providers of 2027
- Leading Employer United Kingdom 2026, Institute of Research and Data Aggregation, exclusively awarded to the country's top 1% of employers
- 2026 Sustainability Awards from the Business Intelligence Group
- Anna Collard, CISO Advisor, Africa recognized as a Cybersecurity Women of the World honoree, United Cybersecurity Alliance
In Q3, KnowBe4 extended Agent Risk Manager to Anthropic’s Claude, providing organizations with real-time visibility and automated threat detection to govern autonomous AI agents. The company introduced an Agent Risk Manager browser extension that actively discovers new and unknown domains, allowing security professionals to block, warn or allow those sites to shut down shadow AI. Also, in Q3 KnowBe4 launched email and collaboration security protection for Google Workspace, bringing AI threat detection and real-time security coaching to Gmail.
KnowBe4 Defend, the inbound email security product in the KnowBe4 Platform, recently ranked number one across every uplift metric in Microsoft’s latest email security benchmarking report. Based on real-world customer telemetry, the results show Defend catching 3.7x more dangerous emails that slipped past Microsoft Defender than the average Integrated Cloud Email Security (ICES) add-on.