Roger Grimes

Data-Driven Defense Evangelist

Roger A. Grimes is Data-Driven Defense Evangelist at KnowBe4. He is a 30-year computer security professional, author of 13 books and over 1,200 national magazine articles. He frequently consults with international organizations of all sizes and many of the world’s militaries. Grimes regularly presents at national computer security conferences, and is known for his often contrarian, fact-filled viewpoints.

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Top 12 Most Common Rogue URL Tricks

Jun 19, 2020 3:18:27 PM By Roger Grimes

It’s nearly impossible to find an Internet scam or phishing email that doesn’t involve a malicious Uniform Resource Locator (URL) link of some type. The link either directs the user to a ...

Increase in BLM Domain Names Forecasts BLM Phishing Attacks

Jun 16, 2020 3:26:04 PM By Roger Grimes

There has been a significant increase in DNS domain names containing blacklivesmatter or George Floyd’s name and there’s a good chance some of those are owned by people with malicious ...

The Three Pillars of the Three Computer Security Pillars

May 18, 2020 8:31:59 AM By Roger Grimes

Much of the world, or at least the United States, is coalescing around the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. It’s a pretty good one to follow out of the many dozens that have been proposed ...

What is the Right Password Policy?

May 7, 2020 8:15:00 AM By Roger Grimes

What is the right password policy? Conventional password policies say you must have a password at least 8-12 characters long…16 characters or longer if it belongs to an elevated ...

Q&A With Data-Driven Evangelist Roger Grimes on the Great Password Debate

May 6, 2020 10:03:21 AM By Roger Grimes

I get asked a lot about password policy during my travels around the globe giving presentations and from people who email after webinars. Many of the questions are the same and I’ve ...

Is That COVID-19 Email Legitimate or a Phish?

May 1, 2020 8:39:23 AM By Roger Grimes

It’s no surprise that phishers and scammers are using the avalanche of new information and events involving the global coronavirus pandemic as a way to successfully phish more victims. ...

The Best and First Defenses You Should Implement

Apr 24, 2020 8:43:14 AM By Roger Grimes

Every good defense has three pillars of controls: policy, technical, and education. People are always asking what they should do for each to minimize cybersecurity events the most and ...

Third-Party Risk Management Questionnaire for Extended Emergencies

Apr 21, 2020 8:39:05 AM By Roger Grimes

Here’s a questionnaire you can send to suppliers during extended work from home (WFH) periods.

Share the Red Flags of Social Engineering Infographic With Your Employees

Apr 8, 2020 8:43:49 AM By Roger Grimes

Social engineering and phishing are responsible for 70% to 90% of all malicious breaches , so it’s very important to keep your employees at a heightened state of alert against this type ...

The Best Computer Security Solvers Look Beyond the Problem

Apr 1, 2020 8:44:06 AM By Roger Grimes

Who doesn’t love a good computer security “cowboy”? That’s a man or a woman who is a recognized authority in their field of expertise, who groks their subject, who is truly a subject ...

70% to 90% of All Malicious Breaches are Due to Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks

Mar 31, 2020 8:50:03 AM By Roger Grimes

If you’ve heard me speak the last two years, read any of my articles, or watched any of my webinars, you’ve probably heard me say, “Seventy to ninety percent of all malicious breaches are ...

Every Computer Defense Has Three Main Pillars

Mar 26, 2020 8:32:15 AM By Roger Grimes

Defense-in-Depth is a dogmatic term used in the computer defense industry to indicate that every computer defense has to be made up of multiple, overlapping defenses positioned to best ...

The Effectiveness of Educating End Users With a Test-Out Quiz

Mar 17, 2020 12:54:14 PM By Roger Grimes

Use a “test-out” quiz as a way to get people who are normally resistant to training to proactively take the training. They think they are taking a quiz to avoid the training, but in ...

Use Advocates to Spread Your Security Awareness Training Program

Mar 9, 2020 8:00:00 AM By Roger Grimes

I’ve always been a big fan of train-the-trainer programs. Even if you are a great computer security consultant and trainer, there is a limit to what you, one person or one team, can do. ...

[Heads-up] We Give Notice About The New Criminal Age 'Ransomware 2.0': Extremely Damaging, Dangerous And Plain Evil

Feb 2, 2020 1:38:44 PM By Roger Grimes

Take a look at that screen. Let it sink in a moment. Imagine if it were your company.

The Top 5 Eyeopener Strategies To Improve Your IT Defenses And Keep Bad Guys Out Of Your Network

Jan 9, 2020 4:16:06 PM By Roger Grimes

Last year, in 2019 according to CVEdetails, there were 12,174 new, publicly announced vulnerabilities. If that sounds like a high number, it’s a lot less than the previous two years. We ...

Smishing Examples & Defenses

Jan 8, 2020 10:04:15 AM By Roger Grimes

Smishing is phishing via Short Message Service (SMS) on a participating device, usually a cell phone. Long neglected by phishers and spammers, smishing has recently become a very common ...

Encryption Isn’t Your Only Ransomware Problem - There Are Some Other Nasty Issues

Jan 7, 2020 12:05:54 PM By Roger Grimes

Ransomware has become one of the most dreaded problems in the cyber world and it’s only getting worse. Much worse!

I Can Phish Anyone

Oct 15, 2019 7:30:00 AM By Roger Grimes

I’m a bit surprised by some aggressive corporate anti-phishing policies which say they will fire anyone for one accidental phishing offense. Send me the names and email addresses of the ...

You Must Know What You're Clicking On Even With MFA

Dec 27, 2018 12:00:56 PM By Roger Grimes

By Roger Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-driven Defense Evangelist. I’ve been in computer security for over 30-years and I’ve been giving presentations nearly as long. And in that time, no talk ...

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