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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

[INFOGRAPHIC] The Problem: More Data Breaches Despite Increasing Security Budgets

The CyberEdge 2018 Cyberthreat Defense Threat Report shows that lack of security talent, low security awareness among employees, and too much data to analyze are the three major headaches ...

SEO Extortion by STD

A group is attempting to extort money from a company by threatening to destroy its online reputation. CheapAir, a flight comparison website, says it received an email in which a group ...

SAVE THE DATE FOR KB4-CON 2019!

Join KnowBe4 for the second annual KB4 Con May 8-10, 2019 at the Orlando World Center Marriott. The KB4 Con user conference is designed for CISOs, security awareness training program ...

This is a map of KnowBe4's 20,000+ customers Worldwide

Sometimes it's just fun to use some mapping software and see the geographic picture of where your customers are. We have many organizations using KnowBe4 all over the world, but the ...

Think Size Matters to Hackers? It Doesn’t

The largest of organizations aren’t the only ones being hit with cyberattacks. Everyone from the SMB on up is at risk and is actively a target.

Google Warns of Govt-Backed Phishing

This latest heads-up around phishing-based warfare from a source as reputable as Google show the need to both be watchful for and responsive to phishing attacks.

KnowBe4 Now Listed In The World's Top Security Companies - #6 of 20

Pagan Research is an online B2B Database & Business Intelligence website and they focus on delivering quality data for the US, EU and Asia regions' startups, recent fundings, and ...

KnowBe4 Fresh Content Update & New Features August 2018

Check out the new feature updates and training content in the KnowBe4 platform for August!

New Malicious PDFs Carry Stealthy Backdoor And Exfiltrate Data Via Email

The Turla threat group, certainly Russian-speaking and widely attributed to Russian intelligence services, is back with a new phishing technique. The threat actor is distributing emails ...

Suspicious Emails Are a Problem…to the Tune of 6.4 Billion a Day!

Even with authentication, identification, and validation frameworks and solutions in place, the number of potentially malicious emails remains staggering.

[INFOGRAPHIC] Cybercrime Pulls In A Million Bucks A Minute

More than a million dollars is lost every minute to cybercrime. That staggering stat comes to us by way of RiskIQ who published new research showing that despite businesses spending ...

Universities Are Still Targeted With Phishing Attacks By Iranian Hackers

Secureworks® Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) researchers reported that despite indictments in March 2018, the Iranian threat group is likely responsible for a large-scale campaign that ...

SMBs Remain a Focus of Cyber Attacks in 2018

With a majority of SMBs experiencing an increase in attack frequency and sophistication in 2018, cybersecurity efforts need to be a primary emphasis for IT teams in the SMB.

Cybercrime Takes Advantage of Agile Development

The bad guys have long benefited from vulnerabilities in any part of an OS or application. Now they’re going a bit deeper and looking for ways to benefit from development cycles.

Democratic National Committee Thought it was Under Attack (It Was A Red Team Phishing Test...)

The FBI received a report from the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) that unknown actors sought access to a voter database through a phishing campaign.

Data Breaches Projected to Reach 146 Billion Records

Where do you see your organization in five years? According to Juniper Research, without a solid security strategy, you may be one of the many experiencing a data breach.

So, *HOW* much security awareness training content does KnowBe4 have at this moment???

160+ Interactive Training Modules across 29 different languages 150+ Video Modules across 20 different languages

Data Breach Costs Come Calling to the Tune of $115 Million

Organizations aren’t the only ones tired of data breaches. A class-action lawsuit against health insurer Anthem for their 2015 data breach comes with a hefty approved settlement. If ...

[Heads-up] Russian Hackers Widen Their Cyber Attacks Again With Spear Phishing Political Targets

The GRU, the Russian military intelligence spy agency which was responsible for the 2016 election cyber attacks, is at it again and are now targeting the U.S. Senate and conservative ...


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