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 AI-Native Security Awareness Training gives academic institutions a comprehensive path to reducing student-driven human risk – training students on the threats they are likely to face, testing that knowledge through realistic phishing simulations, and reinforcing secure behavior when a student makes a risky digital decision.
- Student-specific training content covering phishing, BYOD risks, password hygiene, social media risks, campus scams, off-campus data security, and more
- AIDA (AI Defense Agents) automates training assignments, phishing simulations, policy quizzes and knowledge refreshers based off each student’s individual risk profile
- When a student exhibits unsafe behavior like clicking a suspicious link or attempting to access restricted content, Real-Time Coaching sends a contextual SecurityTip to reinforce secure behavior

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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.