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Stu Sjouwerman

Chief Executive Officer & President

Stu Sjouwerman (pronounced “shower-man”) is the founder and CEO 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

Hackers are targeting hotel Wi-Fi with particularly evil malware and spear phishing

The veteran DarkHotel hacking group is back with a few new tricks up their sleeve. These sophisticated hackers first began targeting high level executives in 2011 with a signature brand ...
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Data Breaches Are Up 29 Percent Over Last Year

Data breaches are running 29 percent above last year, according to a report released by the Identity Theft Resource Center and CyberScout. Hacking was the leading cause of data breaches ...
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CEO Fraud Attacks Were Far More Lucrative than Ransomware over the Past 3 Years

Cisco's midyear report released this week showed that CEO Fraud netted cybercrime five times more money than ransomware over the last three years. The surprising highlight of Cisco's ...
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43% of C-suite execs name cybersecurity as No. 1 operational challenge

A global survey over 400 C-suite execs by the management consulting firm A.T. Kearney showed that cybersecurity (43 percent) is the top operational challenge they faced. Also, a whopping ...
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New Type Of WhatsApp Phishing Attack

Heads-up. There is a new social engineering attack currently being tested in Europe, and that means we will see it in America in the near future.
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Ransomware attack on KQED TV, Radio Station wiped out pre-recorded segments

KQED, a TV and radio station in San Francisco, is an example that shows how badly any organization can suffer when ransomware hits their network. KQED has been trying to recover from the ...
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Evil Corp Hires Criminal Hackers For Highly Targeted Ransomware Infections

So, here is something new...
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A Single Extreme Cyberattack Could Cost the U.S. More than Hurricane Katrina

Lucinda Shen at Fortune wrote: "With an uptick in cyberattacks across the world, from WannaCry to Petya ransomware, a new report from banking heavyweight Lloyds of London warns just how ...
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The Hackers Smell Blood Now, Not Silicon

Steve Morgan wrote an excellent post with the Top 5 cybersecurity facts, figures and statistics for 2017 at the CSO site. These predictions and observations provide a 30,000-foot view of ...
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Business Braces for More Ransomware Assaults

Baseline Mag has a great slide show with the results of an ISACA survey (Information Systems Audit and Control Association), a nonprofit group for IT and information systems ...
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Cyber Security Pros Work Weekends And Still Feel Unprepared

Recent surveys by Farsight and Anomali find that 57% of InfoSec pros work weekends, and nearly a third of survey respondents noted they work on average 10-hour days, but also, one in ...
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Two New Cybercrime-as-a-Service Platforms Discovered

There is a rising trend of cybercrime sites for wannabe "crims" that make malicious hacking a point-and-click exercise. A new report describes two more sites that were discovered by ...
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Second Quarter 2017 Top-Clicked Phishing Email Subjects [INFOGRAPHIC]

KnowBe4 customers run millions of phishing tests per year, and we report at least quarterly on the latest top-clicked phishing email subjects so our customers know what the highest-risk ...
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Cleveland Medical Associates Ransomware Infection Caused 22K-Record Databreach - How To Prevent This

Cleveland Medical Associates is offering about 22,000 patients identity protection services after a ransomware attack against the practice. The practice is offering a year of protective ...
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Scam Of The Week: Phishing Moves To Smishing

Cybercriminals are increasingly trying to circumvent your spam filters and instead are targeting your users directly through their smartphone with smishing attacks, which are hard to ...
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