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KnowBe4, Microsoft Roll Out New Integration To Boost Email Security
Security firm KnowBe4 announced a partnership with Microsoft this month designed to enhance email security, a persistent and frequently expensive weak spot for enterprises.
The integration, which will become generally available "soon," connects KnowBe4's Defend platform with Microsoft Defender for Office 365. The idea is to complement Microsoft's native quarantine capabilities with KnowBe4's inbound threat detection features, which the company says are powered by agentic AI.
"The technical implementation of this integration delivers immediate value to customers through seamless workflow integration," KnowBe4 said in a blog post. "When Defend identifies a message as potentially malicious, the system can now automatically push that message into Microsoft's quarantine using their established policies and procedures."
This collaboration comes as phishing attacks continue to rise; Microsoft highlighted phishing as a top threat in its 2024 Digital Defense Report, costing U.S. businesses an estimated $3.5 billion that year. By linking training tools with real-time security data, KnowBe4 and Microsoft aim to close gaps between user awareness and active defense.
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Posted by Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff on June 25, 2025