NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

With the human element involved in roughly 60% of all data breaches according to Verizon’s 2025 DBIR, the workforce remains the most critical — and targetable — layer of any organization’s security posture. KnowBe4 is pioneering the industry shift from passive awareness to active Human Risk Management (HRM) through its HRM+ Platform. This AI-driven, comprehensive solution transforms an organization’s largest attack surface, the workforce, into its strongest asset.

The HRM+ platform integrates security awareness, cloud email security, and orchestration into a single, cohesive ecosystem. Solutions include:

AI Defense Agents (AIDA): An advanced suite of AI-native agents designed to automate and enhance human risk management by evolving with the threat landscape.
Real-Time Security Coaching: SecurityCoach is a first-of-its-kind platform that detects risky behavior in real time and delivers immediate SecurityTips via Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Chat, or email.
AI-Powered Cloud Email Security: Utilizing contextual machine learning and neural networks, the platform continually assesses human risk and dynamically adapts policy controls to defend against advanced phishing and data exfiltration.
Anti-Phishing: Leverages advanced threat detection to identify and block phishing attacks before they reach users’ inboxes, enabling proactive incident response.
Security Awareness Training: Combines the industry’s most comprehensive library of localized content in 35 languages with AI-driven simulated phishing and adaptive training to educate users and measurably reduce risky behavior.

By consolidating human risk data, organizations move beyond simple completion rates to achieve real behavioral change:

Quantifiable Risk Reduction: The platform reduces an organization’s Phish-prone Percentage from over 30% to under 5% within 12 months, while countering increasingly sophisticated AI-generated phishing attacks.
Operational Efficiency: Automated email analysis takes hours of manual security work off teams’ workloads, speeding up threat response and reducing training management by more than 90%.
Proactive Defense and Behavioral Change: AI blocks phishing emails before they hit inboxes, while real-time coaching helps employees stop falling for scams.
Compliance and Visibility: HRM+ delivers clear metrics to measure human risk and meet regulatory cybersecurity disclosure requirements.

By combining the world’s most diverse library of localized content with AI orchestration, KnowBe4 HRM+ sets the standard for the Human Risk Management category. It empowers organizations to transcend “check-the-box” compliance and build a resilient security culture that mitigates the world’s most persistent threat: humans.