2025 Cybersecurity Consciousness Month by the Numbers

Organizations depend on KnowBe4 to teach thousands and thousands of individuals every month on safety consciousness and compliance subjects, and each October, throughout Cybersecurity Consciousness Month, engagement with our coaching content material units new data. 2025 was no exception.

KnowBe4 had almost 18 million modules accomplished final month, together with interactive coaching modules, video games, assessments, video modules and audiocasts on KnowBe4’s Safety Consciousness Coaching (KSAT). This can be a new document for us! That is additionally only a pattern of the general utilization of our content material as a result of it excludes organizations that utilized a third-party LMS in addition to organizations that opted to make use of customized coaching programs, which are sometimes utilized by the biggest organizations. Whilst a conservative snapshot, the info reveals encouraging tendencies and is useful in drawing some conclusions about how utilization of SAT content material is evolving.  The common variety of modules accomplished  additionally considerably elevated from final 12 months, underscoring the transition from bigger items of content material to smaller, modular items with a number of totally different studying actions. This microlearning method has been scientifically confirmed to enhance finish person engagement, satisfaction and encourage optimistic habits.

The extra widespread modules final month are listed beneath:

The truth that none of those modules reached one million completions tells you that persons are utilizing all kinds of modules that go well with their group. It’s additionally indicative of the place they’re on the Safety Tradition Maturity Mannequin.   Seven years in the past once I first began at KnowBe4, 75% of the module utilization was two modules: the KSAT 45 Minute and the KSAT 30 minute modules – so shorter modules, extra of a spread, and a mixture of subjects are the pattern. Though solely two of those modules have AI within the title, all of them cowl AI assaults and correct AI utilization which can be a pattern for certain.  

This 12 months, many organizations additionally used surveys and feedback, so we had simply over 3 million survey outcomes concerning the content material. Customers had been requested to price the content material on a scale of 1 to five round 3 totally different metrics, together with the person’s notion of helpfulness, size and presentation of the content material. The common for final month was 4.59, up from 4.54 final 12 months. It could appear to be a small achieve, however given our regular climb from 4.3 up to now, each fraction of enchancment at this stage represents actual, hard-won progress. It’s encouraging to see individuals each having fun with and discovering worth within the content material—particularly since this can be a remarkably excessive ranking for required coaching. We repeatedly evaluate coaching rankings and survey suggestions, and we advocate organizations do the identical to repeatedly refine and enhance their applications. Here’s a hyperlink to a earlier weblog submit associated to utilizing this helpful information. 

One of many largest questions I get is what had been the completion charges for individuals who had been assigned coaching. There are two various kinds of coaching campaigns: obligatory and optionally available. So I’m going to divide these out. There have been almost 10,000 organizations that rolled out optionally available coaching campaigns in October. These organizations had a strong 34% common completion price on these campaigns. Over the course of the following few weeks for obligatory coaching, I count on these campaigns to be very near 100% later this month as most organizations are actually required to finish some coaching of their business by regulation or to fulfill laws. Many organizations are giving their customers all of This fall to finish and a few are giving some additional weeks for coaching campaigns that began in October. So on the time of publication of this weblog, I don’t have a totally calculated quantity however on-time completion has been operating at about 80% for many different months in 2025. 

Lastly, we had a document of over 20% of our coaching carried out in a language aside from English. We had over 10 million completions in US English and over 3 million in UK English. Under are the highest 5 non-English languages by completion quantity from our 44 supported languages in the course of the month of October:

Whereas October is a giant month for cybersecurity coaching, we additionally had almost 600,000 completions of compliance coaching from Compliance Plus,  which can be a document! If you’re utilizing Compliance Plus or don’t have entry to the library, attain out for a demo,as a result of combining safety consciousness with compliance coaching can save your group money and time. 

Though October is our busiest month of the 12 months, I’ve seen a pattern the place October is much less of a high-water mark than just some years in the past. For example, we had over 11 million completions in September and have been fairly constantly round 10 million completions monthly all 12 months lengthy. This represents a shift the place organizations are more and more transitioning  to quarterly and month-to-month coaching because the annual coaching has confirmed to be the naked minimal and continuous coaching applications are simpler. Sixty-seven % of organizations have gone to at the very least quarterly coaching and this quantity continues to climb. We additionally see greater completion and survey rankings on this mannequin than conventional, large as soon as per 12 months coaching. 

I encourage you to report your numbers to your management and benchmark your self towards the rankings and completion charges you see right here. We’re all about steady enchancment and these numbers and development proceed to drive us to do higher. We all the time recognize your suggestions and we sit up for partaking with you to make October (and all months) in 2026 probably the most profitable 12 months ever! Our planning for this begins now…