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Student Edition
Empower Your Students for a Secure Digital Future and a Strong Security Culture

The KnowBe4 Student Edition enables academic institutions to prepare students aged 16+ to identify and prevent modern cyberattacks while empowering your security and IT teams to turn students into a strong line of defense.

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Students are facing an unprecedented threat landscape: personal devices, BYOD culture, oversharing, phishing, credential reuse — the list goes on. Academic IT and security teams are overworked, with huge student populations, limited visibility and mounting pressure to reduce human risk.

KnowBe4 Student Edition gives your institution a modern, scalable way to reduce student-driven human risk, personalize training at scale and reinforce security behaviors across campus.

Security Awareness Training

KnowBe4’s Security Awareness Training is curated to help students recognize and navigate cybersecurity threats in and out of the classroom. This is an essential first step in raising awareness and helping reduce risk across your student population. Personalized awareness training and simulated phishing tests are based on each student’s current understanding of security threats.

Courses include:

  • Computer and mobile device security vulnerabilities
  • Password hygiene and multi-factor authentication
  • Phishing and social engineering
  • Social media and oversharing risks
  • Campus scams, travel and off-campus data security

AIDA 

Powered by AI, AIDA delivers personalized training paths, automated phishing simulations, policy quizzes and behavior-based knowledge refreshers at scale — no heavy manual lift required. By personalizing training based on each student’s behavior, you gain improved retention, increased engagement and reduced human risk.

  • Leverages SmartRisk Agent to build dynamic risk profiles for every student, delivering a more comprehensive and accurate Risk Score for your organization.
  • AIDA automates content assignment, phishing template generation, policy quizzes and knowledge refreshers that align with each student’s risk profile.
  • Targeted, relevant content makes training more effective and reduces risky behavior that could lead to alert fatigue and SOC overload.

SecurityCoach

SecurityCoach adds a live behavioral feedback layer to your student’s security, enabling coaching at the moment of risk and reducing manual overhead for your security team. This real-time coaching reinforces student training when it matters most, turning every potential threat into a teachable moment.

  • Seamlessly integrates with your existing security stack to detect risky student behavior like clicking malicious links, attempting to access restricted content or reusing credentials
  • Sends in-the-moment SecurityTips via Microsoft Teams, Google Chat or email to help students mitigate risk
  • Supports unmanaged and BYOD environments through identity and network-based integrations rather than relying only on endpoint control

Defend

Defend delivers email protection and coaching by combining advanced threat detection with teachable moments inside the inbox. Email remains the primary threat vector, and students are particularly vulnerable. Defend enables your institution to act at the moment of risk, educate students in real time, and reduce the burden on your security team.

  • Applies machine learning, natural language processing, behavioral baselining and anomaly detection to identify advanced threats that bypass traditional security technologies and filters.
  • Inserts contextual, color-coded banners when an inbound email is flagged, providing risk explanations and teachable feedback.
  • Rewrites suspicious links at click-time, detects and warns users about QR code threats, and verifies sender authenticity.
  • Provides visibility through centralized dashboards that monitor student risk, surfacing trends and high-risk groups.

Student Edition Training Topics

Computer and Mobile Security Vulnerabilities

Our cyber threat awareness training empowers students to confront not only malware risks, but also the broad spectrum of computer and mobile security vulnerabilities. It offers insight into cyber defense strategies, such as regular system updates, the use of reputable software and the adoption of savvy online practices to safeguard against an ever-evolving array of digital threats.

Password Security Weaknesses

Our password security training examines common password security weaknesses. The training emphasizes the critical need for robust, complex passwords, password management tools, and multi-factor authentication to fortify user accounts against unauthorized access.

Phishing Attacks

Our phishing training tackles the surge of sophisticated attacks, such as job fraud emails aimed at students. Using examples from student inboxes, it teaches students how to identify these deceptive tactics that can compromise personal information and guides students to exercise vigilant cyber etiquette.

Social Media Dangers

Our social media training emphasizes the importance of recognizing and avoiding oversharing to prevent adverse outcomes such as loss of privacy, reputational damage and identity theft. The training reinforces that school computers should be used for academic purposes, helping students to understand how to safeguard their digital well-being.

Campus Thefts and Scams

Our secure behavior training confronts the realities of campus thefts and scams, underscoring the necessity of shredding confidential materials such as past applications and unneeded documents. The training highlights the importance of maximizing privacy settings on personal accounts and encourages regular data backups to mitigate potential losses from deceptive activities.

Travel and Off-campus Data Security Thefts

Students gain a crucial layer of protection against data theft when they're equipped with the knowledge to work securely off-campus or while traveling. This training explores how to leverage VPNs for secure communications, navigate public Wi-Fi with caution and effectively secure devices and personal information while engaging in academic pursuits or conducting homework off campus.

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“The knowledge that users gain from the training and additional resources will carry with our students beyond their time here at Bridgewater State University…”

Hear from our customer Bridgewater State University on their experience with KnowBe4 and how they are improving their security culture and reducing human risk.

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Bridgewater State University
Learn how the largest public university in Massachusetts enhanced their security culture and reduced their Phish-Prone Percentage from 15% to 4% through security awareness training
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Hood College
See how Hood College used Student Edition to see an increase in reported phishing emails, reduce time spent on investigating possible phishing emails, and reduce clicking on phishing campaigns.
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