KnowBe4 Earns Frost & Sullivan’s 2026 Global Customer Value Leadership Recognition in the Email Security Industry

Recognition honors the company that offers products that customers find superior for the overall price, performance, and quality

TAMPA BAY, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KnowBe4, the global leader in digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans, today announced it has been awarded ‘2026 Global Customer Value Leadership’ in the email security industry as part of Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices recognition. Best Practices awards companies for their superior leadership and innovation.

Frost & Sullivan recognized KnowBe4 for:

• Its continued protection of the human element of email security while also addressing the evolving threat landscape, characterized by AI-generated phishing campaigns, impersonation attacks, and compromised legitimate accounts.
• Tightly integrating technical protection with behavioral risk management into a single platform that continuously correlates user activity, threat intelligence and policy enforcement. This unified approach enables customers to identify threats more effectively and respond faster, while reinforcing secure user behavior through contextual guidance and personalized training.
• Its advanced AI-driven capabilities, which deliver strong price–performance value by reducing false positives while maintaining high detection accuracy. Organizations benefit from reliable protection against phishing and social engineering attacks without overwhelming users or security teams with excessive alerts.
• Use of contextual prompts and behavioral nudges to influence user decisions during risky interactions. This approach improves long-term security outcomes by transforming every detection event into an opportunity for user education. Over time, organizations see measurable improvements in their Risk Score.
• Seamless integration with existing security ecosystems, such as Microsoft 365. By aligning closely with existing productivity platforms, KnowBe minimizes deployment complexity and accelerates time to value for customers.

In addition, Frost & Sullivan acknowledged KnowBe4’s simplified procurement and platform consolidation, its strong customer support, its expanding global adoption, and its continuous innovation and future growth potential.

“This recognition highlights our commitment to delivering genuine, measurable value for our customers by combining technical sophistication with behavioral insight,” said Greg Kras, chief product officer at KnowBe4. “By embedding innovation at the heart of our strategy, we’re redefining digital workforce security - harnessing the power of AI to help organizations effectively defend against the modern threat landscape and reduce unnecessary operational complexity.”

Best Practices criteria for world-class performance

Frost & Sullivan applies a rigorous analytical process to evaluate multiple organizations for each recognition category before determining the final recognition recipient. The process involves a detailed evaluation of best practices criteria across two dimensions (business impact and customer impact) for each nominated company. KnowBe4 excels in many of the criteria in the Email Security space.

“KnowBe4 continues to invest in innovation to address emerging cybersecurity challenges. Future platform enhancements focus on expanding protection beyond email into collaboration platforms and messaging environments where phishing and impersonation attacks increasingly originate.” - Claudio Stahnke, Senior Industry Analyst, Frost & Sullivan

Find more information about KnowBe4’s cloud email security here.

About KnowBe4

KnowBe4 empowers the modern workforce to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations worldwide, KnowBe4 is the pioneer of digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans. The KnowBe4 Platform provides attack simulation and training, collaboration security, and agent security powered by AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score. The platform leverages 15 years of behavioral data to combat advanced threats including social engineering, prompt injection, and shadow AI. By securing humans and agents, KnowBe4 leads the industry in workforce trust and defense.

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Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices Recognitions honor companies across regional and global markets that exhibit exceptional achievement and consistent excellence in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer experience, and strategic product development. Each recognition is the result of a rigorous analytical process in which Frost & Sullivan industry experts benchmark performance through comprehensive interviews, deep-dive analysis, and extensive secondary research. The goal is to identify true best-in-class organizations that are driving transformative growth and setting new industry standards.