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Stu Sjouwerman

Founder and Executive Chairman

Stu Sjouwerman (pronounced “shower-man”) is the Founder and Executive Chairman of KnowBe4, Inc., which hosts the world’s most popular integrated security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, with over 54,000 organization customers and more than 50 million users. A serial entrepreneur and data security expert with 30 years in the IT industry, Stu was the co-founder of Inc. 500 company Sunbelt Software, a multiple award-winning anti-malware software company that was acquired in 2010.


Recent Posts

Phishing Attacks Up, Especially Against SaaS And Webmail Services

Phishing attacks continued to rise into the summer of 2019 with cybercrime gangs’ focus on branded webmail and SaaS providers remaining very keen, according to the APWG report. The report ...

Oklahoma Pension Fund Robbed of $4.2 million via Compromised Email

Attackers stole millions of dollars from Oklahoma’s pension fund for retired law enforcement officers, the Oklahoman reports. The Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System (OLERS) said ...

[Phishing Alert] UK Home Office primes Brexit spam cannon for a million texts reminding folk to check passports

The Register reported: "The UK Home Office will send a million text messages reminding people that the rules for travelling to the European Union will change in the event of a no-deal ...

Exclusive: Russia carried out a 'stunning' breach of FBI communications system, escalating the spy game on U.S. soil

Yahoo came out with some very interesting news: "On Dec. 29, 2016, the Obama administration announced that it was giving nearly three dozen Russian diplomats just 72 hours to leave the ...

Ex White House CIO attacks insurance firms for 'fuelling ransomware industry'

Former CIO of the White House Theresa Payton has warned that cyber insurance companies are supporting the ransomware industry by manipulating organisations into paying to have their ...

WSJ: "U.S. Targets North Korean Hacking as Rising National-Security Threat"

Ian Talley and Dustin Volz at the WSJ wrote:

Employees Are the Reason 70% of Financial Companies Have Suffered Security Incidents in the Last Twelve Months

The latest data from cybersecurity vendor Clearswift shows untrained employees are clearly the source of incidents that plague an overwhelming majority of companies in the financial ...

Video Becomes the Next Big Bait for Social Engineering

Scammers are always looking for new ways to get potential victims to engage. It appears that the latest trend is to leverage our familiarity with watching video to spawn an attack.

Only 5% of U.S. Healthcare Employees Receive Continual Cybersecurity Awareness Training

A recent report by security vendor Kaspersky highlights how healthcare organizations are at risk of cyberattack – and how a lack of training is responsible.

How Can You Check If Your Email Is Compromised?

Rudy Friederich, a KnowBe4 friend at Marshal Security LLC sent me the following interesting tips related to finding out if you are the victim of Business Email Compromise. He wrote:

Global Phishing Campaign Targets Universities

Researchers at Secureworks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) have been tracking a major phishing campaign that’s using library-themed emails to target more than sixty universities around the ...

Germany Gets Hit With Destructive Filewiper Phishing Attack

Cyber security remains the biggest threat to business in Africa

CAPE TOWN – African business owners who attended the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa in Cape Town have flagged cybersecurity as the biggest threat to business.

KnowBe4 #4 on eSecurity Planet Top 15 Cybersecurity Companies

We were excited to hear that eSecurity Planet worked with Gartner and Cybersecurity Ventures to compile a ranking of the Top Cybersecurity Companies. They listed the Top 15 and KnowBe4 ...

Phishing Nightmare? New "Deadline" Email From Equifax Settlement Administrator Notifies of Changes in Filing.

You’d better check your email queue for a new email from The Equifax Breach Settlement Administrator that was sent out several days ago to those who previously filed a claim. It will ...

[On-Demand Webinar] Crafty Ways the Bad Guys Use Pretexting to Own Your Network

Today’s phishing attacks have evolved way beyond spray-and-pray emails that mass target victims. Instead, the bad guys have carefully researched your organization in order to set the ...

Ethical Hackers as Educators

Ethical hackers are especially well-positioned to use their knowledge of attack techniques to educate people, according to Zoë Rose, a white-hat hacker based in the UK. On the CyberWire’s ...

FBI Cyber Warning: Attacks On Key Employees Up 100%, As 281 Are Arrested

Zak Doffman, contributor at Forbes reported: "There is a cyberattack epidemic hitting businesses around the world, targeting individuals responsible for requesting fund transfers or ...

The Legal Profession's Catfishing Problem

Scammers frequently impersonate lawyers in fraudulent emails in order to get recipients to take those emails seriously, according to Victoria Hudgins at Legaltech News. Legal threats or ...


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