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Anna Collard

SVP Content Strategy & CISO Advisor

Anna Collard is the SVP Content Strategist & CISO Advisor for KnowBe4 Africa, where she drives security awareness across the African continent. She founded security content publisher Popcorn Training, which was acquired by KnowBe4 in 2018. Winner of Women Tech Entrepreneur South Africa 2025, Top 20 Global Women in Cyber 2024, Cybersecurity Women of the Year Award 2023 - People’s Choice Category, and IFSEC Global Influencer in Security for 2022 and Top 50 Women in Cybersecurity – Africa 2020. Anna is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cybersecurity for the 2025-2026 term and a Global Ambassador on the Council for Responsible AI (GCRAI). Collard also sits on the board of the MiDO Cyber Academy Programme, aimed at underserved communities in South Africa to bridge the cyber skills divide.
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Recent Posts

AI Agent Governance Part 3 - Runtime Governance: The Hidden Performance Cost of Agentic AI

Read Part 1 and Part 2 At the World Economic Forum cyber meeting in Geneva recently, I had an interesting conversation with Vinh Nguyen, who is a strategic security advisor and Senior ...

AI Agent Governance Part 2 - What Good Looks Like: Governing AI Agents in Practice

Read Part 1 If AI agents are becoming organizational actors, then governance needs to move beyond principles and into operational structure. In Camille Stewart Gloster’s upcoming book The ...

AI Agent Governance Part 1 - Beyond the Chatbot: Mastering AI Agent Governance

In 2024, we talked to AI. In 2026, AI is talking to our systems, our customers, and increasingly, acting on our behalf. With AI agents, we are moving AI from a tool to an actor, from ...

From Cyberwar to Cognitive Warfare: The Geopolitical Impact on Cybersecurity in Africa

We’ve long defined cybersecurity as the technical discipline of protecting networks, data and systems. But when viewed through a geopolitical lens, then this definition is no longer ...

Digital Cleanup: It’s Not Just Your Files, It’s Your Brain

Digital Cleanup Day might be seen as a digital chore: delete old files, clear the inbox, reduce your carbon footprint. It’s framed as a technical exercise. But digital cleanup isn't only ...

From Phishing to AI Agents: Can We Design for Digital Mindfulness?

Anyone who knows me knows I’m passionate about mindfulness. Because I genuinely believe it makes us better humans. But also, because I have one of those brains that desperately needs it. ...

Starting the Year with Cyber Intention: Human-Centric Insights from the Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026

One of my first intentional “to-dos” this year has been spending time with the World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026, a report I was privileged to actively contribute ...

[Cybersecurity Awareness Month] Watch Out for the Cyberpunks: Outsmarting Social Engineering in Retro Arcade Style

October marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a perfect reminder that while technology evolves, the greatest threat to organizations often comes down to the human element.

Africa’s Cybersecurity Gap: The Growing Role of Human Risk

Africa's cybersecurity landscape presents a paradox that helps explain Africa’s cybersecurity gap: a widespread belief in preparedness among organisations, although significant blind ...

The Cybersecurity Confidence Gap: Are Your Employees as Secure as They Think?

Our recent research reveals a concerning discrepancy between employees' confidence in their ability to identify social engineering attempts and their actual vulnerability to these attacks.