KnowBe4, the leader in digital workforce security, securing both AI agents and humans, today launched email and collaboration security protection through its Defend product for Google Workspace. This is extension of its Defend email security portfolio that brings advanced threat detection, explainable AI verdicts, and real-time employee coaching to more than three billion users of Google Workspace worldwide.
New release brings AI threat detection and real-time security coaching to Gmail; early data shows average of 1 in 666 emails intercepted were dangerous threats.
At core of Defend for Google Workspace is multi-engine behavioral AI model, trained on KnowBe4's proprietary telemetry of more than 1.15 billion daily event signals and 16 years of behavioral insight. Platform evaluates messages across multi-layered intent signals simultaneously, catching advanced BEC, zero-payload phishing, and prompt injection attacks that native Google controls often miss.
Every intercepted threat in Defend for Google Workspace becomes opportunity to build more resilient workforce. Moment risky email is detected, intended recipient receives immediate, contextual teachable moment notification, turning potential incident into instant, real-world security training delivered at exact point of risk.
Once malicious variant is confirmed, Defend for Google Workspace integrates natively with PhishER Plus to automatically hunt down, pull back, and neutralize matching threats across every enterprise Gmail inbox in under two minutes. This significantly reduces multi-hour SOC containment process into autonomous, near-instant response.
"Google empowers productivity and collaboration. KnowBe4 protects digital workforce," said Greg Kras, chief product officer, KnowBe4. "Together, this new release enhances email and collaboration security that IT and security professionals need to better protect organizations. We are bringing explainable, multi-engine AI detection and real-time coaching together in single, API-native layer, so every blocked threat also becomes teachable moment. Deep collaboration with Google enables us to offer unified platform that delivers trust and strong security culture."
Defend for Google Workspace will be available on September 15, 2026 to KnowBe4 customers running Google Workspace, across SMB, mid-market, and enterprise environments.
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, email & collaboration security, and agent security powered by AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score. The platform leverages over 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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