Major incident

KnowBe4: Defend - Redirect Upon Login

Affected: Console

Current status of KnowBe4: Operational — live KnowBe4 status

Timeline

1. Jul 16, 2026, 19:48 UTC
   investigating
   We have identified an issue where users may receive a redirect upon logging into Defend, and our engineering team is looking into a fix.
2. Jul 16, 2026, 20:09 UTC
   identified
   A fix has been identified, and we will be monitoring the results as it rolls out.
3. Jul 16, 2026, 21:20 UTC
   resolved
   This incident has been resolved.
4. Aug 20, 2026, 21:32 UTC
   postmortem
   On Thursday, July 16, 2026, from approximately 19:57 to 21:12 \(UTC\), some customers experienced difficulty logging in to the Defend console, seeing a **Find Out More** screen instead of console access. This issue was caused by a synchronization issue between Salesforce and our internal licensing systems, which incorrectly set some customer license counts to zero. As a result, affected customers were unable to log in. To resolve this issue, our team applied a temporary license override to restore access for affected customers while correcting the underlying licensing records in Salesforce. Once corrected, the systems automatically synchronized the accurate values, and the Defend console access returned to normal performance by approximately 21:12 \(UTC\). To prevent this type of issue in the future, we are implementing improvements to the Salesforce synchronization process to ensure accurate license counts. No data loss occurred as a result of this issue.

Updates as published by KnowBe4 (original).