KnowBe4 Blog

How to Secure AI Adoption In Your Organization

Martin Kraemer — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:00:03 GMT

The era of "typing into a box" is over. For years, we viewed artificial intelligence as a digital assistant—a sophisticated autocomplete tool that waited for human input. But according to Martin Kraemer, KnowBe4’s CISO Advisor for Europe and the Middle East, that dynamic has shifted. We have moved from asking AI questions to giving AI jobs.

What Is an Al Agent in Cybersecurity?

Martin Kraemer — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:00:03 GMT

At the Milken Conference in May 2026, Robert F. Smith, founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, described a shift that every security leader should hear. Software, he said, has moved through three states: product, then service and now worker. "That agent, that software, actually does work." Companies that do not make the transition to software as a worker, he was blunt, risk being disintermediated entirely. He is not only right because organizations risk falling behind the competition as Al increases efficiency, but also because agentic systems have the potential to address systemic challenges many organizations are facing today.

Redesigning Security Culture for the Agentic Age

Martin Kraemer — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:00:03 GMT

The launch of platforms like Moltbook, OpenClaw, and RentAHuman in early 2026 has provided an unsettling glimpse into the future. We are entering a phase of the digital workplace where AI agents no longer just assist us, they interact with one another, act autonomously in the physical world, and even hire humans for manual labor. In this environment, the traditional lines of control and agency are being redrawn.

How to Design Security for Agentic AI

Martin Kraemer — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:00:06 GMT

The AI said: Apologies. I panicked.

Anthropic's Mythos Preview: Why the Human Layer Matters More, Not Less

Martin Kraemer — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:47:10 GMT

The human layer is not impacted by Anthropic's Mythos Preview announcement. If anything, it is reinforced, and for reasons that deserve to be spelled out clearly.

Best Practices for Implementing AI Agents

Martin Kraemer — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:30:00 GMT

On March 9th, Codewall.ai disclosed how it had hacked McKinsey & Company’s AI platform called Lilli, a purpose-built system for 43,000+ employees to analyze documents, chat, and access decades of proprietary research. The researchers unleashed an AI agent which quickly scanned 200 endpoints, identified 22 that did not require authentication, and one that wrote user search queries into a database including non-parameterized JSON keys which were concatenated directly into SQL.

EMEA Finance and Banking: A Sector Under Siege

Martin Kraemer — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:00:00 GMT

The finance and banking sector across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) faces extraordinary cybersecurity challenges, according to KnowBe4’s Cyber Risk in Finance and Banking Across EMEA report. While digital transformation has revolutionized operations and customer engagement, it has also created vulnerabilities that threaten the stability of the entire financial system.

Minimizing Liability Is Not The Same as Security: Lessons from Recent Airport Cyber Disruptions

Martin Kraemer — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 16:00:00 GMT

Blog post updated for clarity.

In late September 2025, several European airports reported significant delays and flight cancellations due to disruptions with their check-in and passenger systems. As a global leader in aviation technology and the backbone of passenger travel, protection of systems and customer operations is paramount for Collins Aerospace. Nonetheless, the vendor of the vMUSE check-in system had been hit by a ransomware attack.

"Yep, I got pwned. Sorry everyone, very embarrassing."

Martin Kraemer — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:15:00 GMT

In essence, that is the disclosure and notification message that the open-source developer "qix" sent to the world when he was social engineered to give up access credentials to his GitHub account.

Beyond Traditional Defenses: Why French Cyber Resilience Needs to Improve

Martin Kraemer — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:00:00 GMT

In today's world, cyberattacks are a constant threat. While technical defenses are crucial, people often remain the easiest attack vector for cybercriminals.