2024-12-03 02:21:00
KnowBe4, a world-renowned cybersecurity platform that comprehensively addresses human risk management, today announced an innovative new suite of AI-native security agents designed to automate and improve human risk management – AIDA.
AIDA is a suite of agents that enhances the approach to human risk management by leveraging multiple AI technologies to create personalized, adaptive, and highly effective training for all end users that truly changes behavior. Supporting the entire set of agents is SmartRisk AgentTM. SmartRisk Agent leverages end-user behavioral data from all KnowBe4 products to help measure cyber risk in people. This agent’s multidimensional risk scores are designed to make it easier for security professionals to spot potential issues at the user, group, and organization levels.
According to one LastPass survey 2024more than 95% of cybersecurity professionals believe that AI-generated content makes phishing detection more challenging. This technological advancement in the hands of bad actors has created a new generation of highly convincing social engineering attacks that universal security awareness training cannot combat.
“AIDA is not merely the next step in KnowBe4’s human risk management, but a quantum leap forward,” said Stu Sjouwerman, Chief Executive Officer of KnowBe4. “It offers a suite of native AI agents that transform the way security professionals approach human risk management. AIDA empowers organizations to stay on the cutting edge of AI-based cybersecurity attacks by measuring human risk scores to better understand and mitigate threats within the risk landscape.”
The first four agents who were released include:
- Automated Training Agent: Uses AI with 316 indicators influencing 37 factors across 7 knowledge areas to analyze end users’ learning history, role, risk score, behavior patterns, and even languages so that AIDA can automatically assign the most relevant and engaging content.
- Model Generation Agent: By leveraging generative AI, AIDA creates highly realistic phishing models that can mirror current attack vectors. Social engineering indicators, or red flags, are based on NIST Phish Scale Framework.
- Knowledge update agent: AIDA delivers knowledge updates at optimal intervals, ensuring end users actually apply crucial security concepts.
- Policy Test Agent: AIDA generates intelligent questions based on an organization’s specific security and compliance policies.
AIDA is available as an add-on for KnowBe4 customers with a Diamond-level KnowBe4 subscription. For more information about AIDA, visit https://www.knowbe4.com/products/AIDA.
About KnowBe4
KnowBe4 empowers workforces to make smarter security decisions every day. Trusted by more than 70,000 organizations around the world, KnowBe4 helps reinforce security culture and manage human risks. KnowBe4 offers a complete, best-in-class AI-driven platform for Human Risk Management, creating an adaptive layer of defense that strengthens user behavior against the latest cybersecurity threats. The HRM+ platform includes modules for awareness and compliance training, cloud email security, real-time training, collaborative anti-phishing, AI defense agents, and more. As the only global security platform of its kind, KnowBe4 uses personalized and relevant cybersecurity protection content, tools and techniques to mobilize workforces to transform from the largest attack surface to an organization’s largest asset.
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What are the key features of KnowBe4’s AIDA platform?
:## Cybersecurity News Update: KnowBe4 Unveils AI-Power
**Me:** Welcome back to the show. Today we’re diving into the exciting world of cybersecurity with a special guest, Wolfgang Smith, Chief Technology Officer at KnowBe4. Wolfgang, thanks for joining us.
**Wolfgang:** Happy to be here.
**Me:** So, KnowBe4 just announced this groundbreaking new AI-driven platform called AIDA. Can you tell us a bit about what it is and what makes it so revolutionary?
**Wolfgang:** Absolutely. AIDA stands for Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents, and it’s a suite of AI-native agents designed to revolutionize how organizations tackle human risk management. Imagine this: AIDA uses AI to personalize security training for every single employee, making it more engaging and truly effective. Think about the difference between a generic security awareness email and personalized training tailored to your specific risks and learning style – that’s the power of AIDA.
**Me:** That sounds incredibly powerful, Wolfgang. How exactly does AIDA personalize this training?
**Wolfgang:** AIDA leverages a plethora of data points about each employee, from their past training performance and role within the company to their behavior patterns and even preferred language. It uses this information to create a unique learning path for each individual, ensuring they receive the exact training they need to stay ahead of threats.
**Me:** It’s not just about personalized training, is it? AIDA also helps combat the increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks generated by AI.
**Wolfgang:** Absolutely. You’re referring to the alarming trend revealed in last year’s LastPass survey, where 95% of cybersecurity professionals reported that AI-generated content makes phishing detection harder than ever before. AIDA’s Model Generation Agent directly addresses this challenge by utilizing generative AI to create highly realistic phishing simulations that mirror today’s threats. Crucially, it incorporates the NIST Phish Scale framework, ensuring these simulations are both realistic and aligned with recognized best practices.
**Me:** Wow, that is vital in the current threat landscape. This all sounds incredibly promising, Wolfgang.
**Wolfgang:** We’re very excited about the potential of AIDA to truly transform how organizations approach security. It’s about moving from a one-size-fits-all approach to a truly personalized and adaptive security strategy, empowered by the power of AI.
**Me:** It certainly seems like AIDA is a significant step forward. Thank you for giving us this fascinating insight, Wolfgang. We wish you and the KnowBe4 team all the best with this launch.
**Wolfgang:** Thank you for having me.
