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.

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Scam Of The Week: Locked PDF Phishing Attack

Jan 6, 2017 8:29:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Wednesday Jan 4th, the SANS Internet Storm Center warned about an active phishing campaign that has malicious PDF attachments in a new scam to steal email credentials. The SANS bulletin ...

Adobe's New VoCo Is PhotoShop For Audio - The Potential For Voice Phishing Is Horrendous

Jan 3, 2017 4:02:51 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Our friends at www.Social-Engineer.org sent me some interesting news in their January newsletter: "Adobe recently announced Project VoCo at the November Adobe Max conference.

CyberheistNews Vol 07 #01 The New Scary Thing Warning for 2017: Ransomworms

Jan 3, 2017 9:44:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews | KnowBe4

Healthcare Records Unavailable For Months After Ransomware Infection

Jan 2, 2017 2:03:40 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Healthcare records of an Arizona clinic have not been available for months after a ransomware infection. The Desert Care clinic got infected in August, and they were not able to recover ...

Expect Malicious Machine Learning In 2017, making social engineering more effective

Jan 2, 2017 11:06:42 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Intel Security's McAfee Threat Predictions for 2017 (PDF) observes that advances in technology are essentially neutral and that developments like machine learning should be welcomed, but ...

KnowBe4 Has Had Another Blow-Out Fourth Quarter

Jan 2, 2017 7:44:04 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Happy New Year! I'd like to thank all our customers for your support. 2016 has been fantastic. Our year-over-year sales increase was 298% for Q4 2016, with a record number of over 750 new ...

Russian Breach US Grid? Nah, Someone Fell For Social Engineering And Enabled Macros

Dec 31, 2016 10:38:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Breathlessly, the Washington Post reports that the Russian Grizzly Steppe malware was found within the system of a Vermont power utility. Nah, they just dodged a bullet. This time someone ...

Russia Hacking America Started With Phishing Attacks

Dec 30, 2016 11:12:29 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As one of his last actions in office, President Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats spies in retaliation for Russia interfering with the U.S. election process, after intelligence agencies ...

Disk-Killer Malware Adds Ransomware Feature And Charges $200,000+

Dec 29, 2016 7:57:49 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Talk about adding insult to injury with this new KillDisk version. Here is how social engineering can cost you dearly. The Sandworm cybercrime gang has upped its game. They were initially ...

CyberheistNews Vol 6 #52 [ALERT] Scam of the Week: George Michael Dies at 53. Watch out for Phishing Attacks

Dec 27, 2016 9:41:39 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You Need To Know The Top 10 IT Security Trends For 2017

Dec 26, 2016 3:21:56 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

I have been looking at the coming year and what trends you will probably see actually deployed in your network. These trends are the practical things that will help you to keep your ...

Scam Of The Week: George Michael Dies At 53. Watch out for phishing attacks

Dec 26, 2016 11:16:50 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today, news broke that George Michael was found dead on Sunday at his home in Goring in Oxfordshire, England. He was 53. A police statement said: “Thames Valley Police were called to a ...

Download This Hacked App And Die - Literally.

Dec 22, 2016 8:09:40 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

In the WSJ of Dec 22, 2016 there is an article that hides the real headline. It talks about the research done by CrowdStrike which shows that the DNC hack was done by a hacker group known ...

Is Lynda.com A Hacking Victim? They Lost 55K Records Somehow...

Dec 19, 2016 1:58:43 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Lynda.com, the online learning unit of LinkedIn, has reset passwords for some of its users after it discovered recently that an unauthorized external party had accessed a database ...

CyberheistNews Vol 6 #51 Scam of the Week: The 1 Billion Yahoo Hack

Dec 19, 2016 9:54:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews | KnowBe4

L.A. County Phishing Attack: 750,000 record data breach

Dec 18, 2016 11:25:02 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Confidential health data or personal information of more than 750,000 people may have been accessed in a cyberattack on Los Angeles County employees in May that led to charges this week ...

Scam Of The Week: The 1 Billion Yahoo Hack

Dec 18, 2016 8:15:13 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

This is getting old. It's all over the press... again. Here is a Reuters article where I am quoted, which covers the most recent billion-record Yahoo hack. Some people asked me after our ...

The rise of ransomware-as-a-service. Stu Sjouwerman CSO Interview

Dec 17, 2016 10:21:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

My Interview at CSO About Ransomware-as-a-Service Joan Goodchild, Editor-in-chief at CSO sat me down and asked why Ransomware-as-a-Service has taken off recently: "It’s not just your ...

KnowBe4 and Barracuda Team Up to Educate and Protect Users Against Phishing Attacks

Dec 17, 2016 9:37:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4, the most popular security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, and Barracuda Networks, Inc. (NYSE: CUDA), a leading provider of cloud-enabled security and data ...

IBM study: 70% of Businesses Attacked Pay Ransomware

Dec 15, 2016 3:56:17 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A rather mind-blowing 70% of businesses hit by ransomware paid the hackers to regain access to hijacked systems and files, according to a new IBM X-Force Ransomware report. Of the ...

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