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Perry Carpenter

Perry Carpenter

Chief Human Risk Management Strategist

Perry Carpenter is the Chief Human Risk Management Strategist at KnowBe4. He is the author of "Transformational Security Awareness: What Neuroscientists, Storytellers, and Marketers Can Teach Us About Driving Secure Behaviors" and coauthor of "The Security Culture Playbook: An Executive Guide To Reducing Risk and Developing Your Human Defense Layer." He previously led security awareness, security culture management, and anti-phishing behavior management research at Gartner Research, in addition to covering IAM strategy, CISO program management mentoring, and technology service provider success strategies.
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Seeing (and Hearing) Isn’t Believing: My SEC Presentation on AI-Driven Scams

Apr 10, 2025 3:03:48 PM By Perry Carpenter
On March 6, I had the opportunity to speak and provide testimony at the SEC Investor Advisory Committee’s panel on Retail Investor Fraud in America—a critical discussion about how AI is ...
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Tips for Detecting Real-time Deepfakes: A Guide to Staying One Step Ahead

Jan 28, 2025 4:06:03 PM By Perry Carpenter
Deepfakes are no longer just the stuff of sci-fi thrillers—they’re here, and they’re deceptively good. From celebrity endorsements to real-time impersonations, deepfake technology has ...
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The Deceptive Media Era: Moving Beyond "Real vs. Fake"

Nov 7, 2024 8:09:52 AM By Perry Carpenter
As society grapples with the rapid advancement of AI and synthetic media, we've been asking the wrong question. The focus on whether content is "real or fake" misses the more crucial ...
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Beyond Analyst Reports: KnowBe4's Undeniable Leadership in Human Risk Management

Sep 19, 2024 9:31:38 AM By Perry Carpenter
Analyst reports aim to provide market insights. But when it comes to Human Risk Management (HRM), we’ve noticed that they often fall short of capturing the full picture. You already know ...
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[PROVED] Unsuspecting Call Recipients Are Super Vulnerable to AI Vishing

Aug 16, 2024 3:04:50 PM By Perry Carpenter
Heads-up: I just proved that unsuspecting call recipients are super vulnerable to AI vishing
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Deal or No Deal: The Double-edged Sword of the IT Security Bundle

Jun 10, 2021 10:32:06 AM By Perry Carpenter
The concept of “bundling” has become very popular among large IT vendors over the past decade as it promises a number of benefits.
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[ALERT] Time to Truly Reckon with the Dark Reality of Ransomware’s Critical Costs

May 11, 2021 8:26:43 AM By Perry Carpenter
By now, I’m sure you’ve already been inundated with all the news about the US’s largest gasoline pipeline being shut down and restarted because of a ransomware attack. As reported by the ...
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Key Findings From the 2021 SANS Security Awareness Report

Apr 6, 2021 8:57:57 AM By Perry Carpenter
Like most security professionals, there are a few industry reports that I really look forward to reading each year. Pretty high on that list is the SANS Security Awareness report. SANS ...
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NIST Updates You Should Be Aware About

Mar 12, 2021 8:42:50 AM By Perry Carpenter
By Perry Carpenter, KnowBe4 Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer. If you’ve been in IT or infosec for any length of time, you’ve probably heard of NIST (the National Institute of ...
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Learn to Combat These Three Cybersecurity Monsters This Halloween and Beyond

Oct 30, 2020 9:45:00 AM By Perry Carpenter
It’s that time of year again. The air feels a bit crisper; the days are a bit shorter; and children around the world prepare to go trick or treating. Even as an adult, Halloween is ...
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Here's Your Guide for Combating the Global Disinformation Pandemic

Oct 29, 2020 7:45:00 AM By Perry Carpenter
Let’s face it – we’re facing a global pandemic; and it goes beyond Covid 19. There’s a war on truth and it’s being waged by nation states, political groups, and cybercriminals who want to ...
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Wake-up Call: New Study from PWC Exposes Terrifying End-User Security Practices that will Keep Your CISO Up at Night

Jul 31, 2020 7:32:56 AM By Perry Carpenter
I just finished reading PwC’s latest Workforce Pulse Study – and you should be scared. This study of more than 1,100 American workers provides an in-depth look at the ...
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Testing 1… 2… 3…

Jul 23, 2020 8:25:23 AM By Perry Carpenter
Let’s face it, very few organizations thought they’d still be in workforce limbo as we near the six-month mark of the pandemic. This situation has stretched many organizations to adopt ...
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The Dilemma: Should you phish test during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Mar 31, 2020 8:45:13 AM By Perry Carpenter
By Perry Carpenter, KnowBe4 Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer. There’s no question, these are challenging times. Employees and organizations around the world are doing their best to ...
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Is There Still Hope for Privacy?

Jan 28, 2020 8:15:00 AM By Perry Carpenter
January 28 is Data Privacy Day. In honor of that, I’d like to share some random thoughts on privacy that I put together for a recent webcast with StaySafeOnline.org. And when I say, ...
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5 Things You May Not Know About Security Awareness Training

Dec 9, 2019 7:00:00 AM By Perry Carpenter
By Perry Carpenter, KnowBe4 Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer. Let me open by making an observation: the discipline of security awareness training is chock-full of assumptions and ...
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Shooting Ourselves in the Foot: The Biases We All Have

Dec 2, 2019 7:00:00 AM By Perry Carpenter
We humans like to believe that we are rational beings, fully in control of our decisions and actions. But psychologists and behavioral economists disagree. They argue that we are — by ...
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Click Confessions of a Security Expert

Nov 26, 2019 7:00:00 AM By Perry Carpenter
As a “human security” expert, I used to take a lot of pride in my well-honed security hygiene. Yeah… that all ended back in early 2017 when I joined KnowBe4. You see, up until that time, ...
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A Transformational Rant: Why People Question the Value of Security Awareness

Nov 4, 2019 7:45:00 AM By Perry Carpenter
In my last post, I spent a bit of time discussing the “technology vs. training” debate; and based on the feedback received, I can tell that this is a debate that many of you have had to ...
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What Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups Can Teach Us About Phishing

Oct 23, 2019 7:30:00 AM By Perry Carpenter
One of the greatest inventions in modern history is the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. I feel sorry for any human who existed before the “age of the cup” because they never got to know the ...
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