KnowBe4 Japan Wins 2026 Regional AWS Partner Award

KnowBe4 Japan G.K. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and President: Kazuhiro Riki), a global cybersecurity platform vendor that comprehensively supports human risk and agentic AI risk management, announced that it has been named a winner of the 2026 Regional AWS Partner Award – Japan. This award recognizes leaders worldwide who play a crucial role in supporting customer innovation and building solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). KnowBe4 Japan was selected as the winner of the Rising Star Technology Partner of the Year award. This award recognizes top AWS Partners who have achieved significant year-over-year growth in their technology business. The Regional AWS Partner Awards, announced at the Partner Summit Tokyo held on Thursday, April 23rd, is a program that recognizes AWS Partners who have demonstrated high expertise, innovation, and collaboration over the past year. The Regional AWS Partner Awards celebrate partners who continue to evolve their business models on AWS and achieve success while supporting customers. KnowBe4 promotes human and agentic AI risk management within organizations through its platform. This platform visualizes traditionally ambiguous human risks with multifaceted data and automatically executes personalized education and training optimized for each individual based on the analysis results. This not only provides knowledge but also encourages a change in employee awareness and behavior, strongly supporting the formation and establishment of an organization-wide security culture. It contributes to reducing risks from human error and improving cyber resilience on a global scale. ■ Comment from Kazuhiro Riki, Representative Director and President, KnowBe4 Japan G.K. "We are deeply honored to receive the Rising Star Technology Partner of the Year award. AWS is a company that has built an excellent security culture over many years and deeply understands its importance. To receive this award from such a pioneer is the highest recognition for our efforts to date, and we feel immense joy. To protect a company's valuable information assets and IT systems, it is essential to foster a 'security culture' that instills high security awareness and correct behavior from management to frontline employees. This is our unchanging mission, and with this award as encouragement, we will continue to strive even harder to build a security culture and improve resilience for Japanese companies through strong collaboration with AWS." The recipients of the Regional AWS Partner Awards were evaluated by unique metrics to measure the performance of AWS Partners over the past year. A third-party organization audited the datasets to ensure that all measurements and calculations were objective and accurate. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is a global program focused on helping partners innovate, accelerate their cloud migration, and maximize the use of AWS's broad and deep services. KnowBe4 helps employees make smarter security decisions every day. Supported by over 70,000 customers worldwide, we help strengthen security culture and achieve human risk management. With a comprehensive, AI-driven "best-of-suite" platform for human risk management, we transform human behavior and build a defensive layer that can flexibly respond to the latest cyber threats. The HRM+ platform provided by KnowBe4 includes security awareness and compliance training, cloud email security, real-time coaching, cloud anti-phishing, and AI defense agents. As AI becomes increasingly integrated into business operations, KnowBe4 trains both human and AI agents to recognize and respond to security risks, developing the modern workforce. Through this integrated approach, KnowBe4 leads in "Workforce Trust Management" and defense strategies.