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.
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.
Case Study
Bridgewater State University
Learn how the largest public university in Massachusetts enhanced their security culture Phish-Prone Percentage from 15% to 4% through security awareness
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Hood College
See how Hood College used Student Edition to see an increase in reported phishing emails, reduce time spend on investigating possible phishing emails, and reduce clicking on phishing campaigns
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Mido Foundation
Discover how the Mido Foundation equipped young learners to recognize and respond to real-world cyber threats
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Datasheet
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Empower your students for a secure digital future and a strong security culture.
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