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Roger Grimes

CISO Advisor

Roger A. Grimes, CISO Advisor for KnowBe4, Inc., is the author of 15 books and over 1500 articles, specializing in host security and preventing hacker and malware attacks. Roger is a frequent speaker at national computer security conferences and his presentations are fast-paced and filled with useful facts and recommendations.
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Recent Posts

Purina’s Champions Program Is the Best I Have Seen

In my most recent book, Fighting Phishing: Everything You Can Do to Fight Social Engineering and Phishing, I highlight the use of “champions," which are co-workers in your organization ...

Step-by-Step To Creating Your First Realistic Deepfake Video in a Few Minutes

Learn how to step-by-step create your first realistic deepfake video in a few minutes.

If Social Engineering Is 70% - 90% of Attacks, Why Aren’t We Acting Like It?

Over a decade ago, I noticed that social engineering was the primary cause for all malicious hacking. It has been that way since the beginning of computers, but it took me about half of ...

Every Cybersecurity List Should Be a Risk-Ranked List

Cybersecurity is all about risk management and reduction. You cannot get rid of all risk. Well, I guess you could, but you (and everyone else) would probably not want to work in a true ...

Don’t Put Real Answers Into Your Password Reset Questions

This recent article on how a hacker used genealogy websites to help better guess victims' password reset answers made it a great time to share a suggestion: Don’t answer password reset ...

Educate Your Users About Malicious SEO Poisoning Attacks

Since the beginning of computers, social engineering has been the number one way that computers and networks have been compromised. Social engineering is involved in 70% to 90% of all ...

[Cybersecurity Awareness Month] Prepare for All Manner of Cyber Threats Like the Heroes of ‘The Inside Man’

Mark Shepherd, the Inside Man, is on a mission.

[On-Demand Webinar] On How To Avoid Hiring Nation-State Fake Employees

In July 2024, KnowBe4 revealed that we had unknowingly hired a North Korean who was pretending to be someone else. We locked down the laptop that was sent to the fake employee within 25 ...

More Carrots and Fewer Sticks

This blog was co-written by Perry Carpenter and Roger A. Grimes. As I sit in the 2024 Seattle Convene conference this week and listen to speaker after speaker talk about their successful ...

Is Disabling Clickable URL Links Enough?

Recently, we had a customer reach out to ask if disabling clickable uniform resource locator (URL) links in emails was enough protection by itself to potentially not need employee ...