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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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New KnowBe4 Benchmarking Report Finds 37.9% of Untrained End Users Will Fail a Phishing Test

Mar 25, 2020 8:15:00 AM By Perry Carpenter
The 2020 Phishing By Industry Benchmarking Report compiles results from the third annual study by KnowBe4 and reveals at-risk users across 19 industries that are susceptible to phishing ...
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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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The Fundamental Importance of Choice and Variety in Security Awareness Program Content

Sep 10, 2018 7:07:13 AM By Perry Carpenter
By Perry Carpenter,  KnowBe4 Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer. I’m a bit of an oddball when it comes to the security awareness market in that I’ve seen it from virtually every ...
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