KnowBe4, the world-renowned cybersecurity platform that comprehensively addresses human risk management, announced the launch of KnowBe4 Prevent across all market segments – an AI-powered email security product designed to enable businesses to manage the risk associated with outbound email. Following the launch of Prevent Enterprise, Prevent is now available to meet the needs of small and medium-sized businesses.
By 2025, human error will remain the leading cause of data breaches ( according to Verizon , 60% of incidents involve the “human element”). The sheer volume of digital communications creates an increased opportunity for employees to disclose sensitive information to inappropriate recipients by sending inaccurate files or unintentionally including confidential data. These breaches result in severe penalties, financial losses, and reputational damage, highlighting the critical importance of prevention. However, conventional Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions rely solely on rigidly defined static rules and lack visibility into what is being sent, to whom, and when.
To address this challenge, KnowBe4 offers Prevent, an outbound email security product powered by artificial intelligence (AI). Prevent notifies employees in real time when they’re about to forward emails or attachments to inappropriate recipients. Prevent proactively identifies and stops the full spectrum of outbound email security threats, including:
- Emails sent to inappropriate recipients, including those resulting from autocomplete
- Unauthorized sharing of confidential information
- Responses to suspicious emails and newly registered domains
- Attempts to extract information by malicious individuals or compromised accounts
- Incorrectly attached files, including hidden data in attachments (Prevent Enterprise)
- Unauthorized internal disclosure and breach of information barriers (Prevent Enterprise)
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With in-depth reporting and analytics, security teams can gain a comprehensive view of outbound security risk across the enterprise, behavioral analysis of user interactions with Prevent alerts, and quantification of prevented incidents to demonstrate effectiveness and return on investment (ROI).
“Email-related threats remain one of the most persistent and costly challenges a business can face, demanding smarter, more flexible approaches to effectively manage them,” said Greg Kras, Chief Product Officer at KnowBe4. “KnowBe4 has a proven track record of effective Human Risk Management, so we’re pleased to expand this coverage to include outbound email risk. Prevent is the most sophisticated and proactive outbound email security product available today for preventing data loss from email. Unlike traditional products, it uses advanced machine learning and contextual understanding of user behavior to identify risky actions in real time, preventing a data breach before it occurs. This enables businesses to stop incidents at their source, empower employees to make safer decisions, and empower security teams to manage and mitigate risk at scale.”
Source: BusinessWire