The expansion to Australia, Brazil, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the UAE aims to help organisations meet local data privacy requirements while securing employees and AI agents.
KnowBe4 is expanding its global data residency footprint to six additional markets, enabling customer data at rest to be held within Australia, Brazil, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The move strengthens the company’s regional data infrastructure as organisations face increasingly complex privacy regulations and growing cybersecurity risks.
The expansion adds to KnowBe4’s existing data residency options in Canada, the European Union (Germany and Ireland), the United Kingdom and the United States. With the additional markets, the company aims to give organisations greater control over where their data is stored while supporting their digital workforce security requirements.
“Expanding our in-region data residency across these six markets gives our customers greater control over their data at rest, so they can secure their workforces with confidence.”
— Bryan Palma, CEO, KnowBe4
For businesses operating across multiple jurisdictions, data location has become an important consideration in technology procurement and cybersecurity strategy. Local storage can help organisations align with applicable data protection frameworks and address regulatory expectations around the handling of sensitive information.
“As the global regulatory environment evolves and cyber threats grow more sophisticated, international organizations require clarity and confidence regarding where their sensitive data is stored,” said Bryan Palma, CEO at KnowBe4. “Expanding our in-region data residency across these six markets gives our customers greater control over their data at rest, so they can secure their workforces with confidence.”
KnowBe4 said customer data at rest in the new regions will be available across its platform. However, the rollout in each market is contingent on the underlying cloud infrastructure becoming generally available. The company has not specified individual launch dates for the six markets.
The announcement also reflects the expanding scope of workforce security. As organisations deploy AI agents alongside human employees, security platforms increasingly need to address risks involving both people and automated systems. KnowBe4 positions its platform around this broader approach, combining security awareness and attack simulation with email and collaboration security and agent security capabilities.
The company says its platform is used by more than 70,000 organisations worldwide and draws on 16 years of behavioural data to address threats including social engineering, prompt injection and shadow AI. Its AI-powered capabilities include AIDA (Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents) and a proprietary Risk Score.
By extending regional data residency, KnowBe4 is seeking to make its workforce security platform more accessible to organisations that require local data storage as part of their regulatory and operational controls.
