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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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UN Report Shows the Whole World Needs a Cybersecurity Upgrade. Oh, Really...

Joseph Steinberg at Inc. Mag wrote : "A UN report released this week shows that despite global awareness of the proliferation of cybercrime and cyber-spying, many nations - including some ...

Russians Are Suspects in Phishing Attacks Involving U.S. Nuclear Site

A report from the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security warns of malware attacks targeting mainly nuclear power stations, and energy facilities. The attacks started May this ...

New Dark Web Site Offers Automated Social Engineering-As-A-Service

This Site Creates Robocalls to Steal People’s Credit Card PINs A June 30, 2017 post on Motherboard revealed a V1.0 of a site that does automated social engineering as a service, and has ...

KnowBe4 Makes It In The 18 Hottest Enterprise Startups Of 2017

Business Insider wrote: "We are half-way through 2017 and it's time to take stock of the hottest startups so far this year. For that we turned to Pitchbook, the website that tracks ...

KnowBe4 Reports Record Q2 2017 Performance

I am happy to report that the second quarter of 2017 was well over double that of Q2 last year, sales (bookings) was 232% compared to a year ago. This marks our 17th-straight quarter of ...

NotPetya "ransomware" Froze Business At Global Law Firm DLA Piper

Kate Fazzini and Adam Janofsky at the Wall Street Journal wrote an excellent piece about the dangers of becoming collateral in global cyber warfare. They wrote: "This week’s “Petya” ...

[ALERT] NotPetya Is a Cyber Weapon, Not Ransomware

Yesterday morning, after monitoring this new outbreak for 24 hours, I came to the conclusion we were dealing with cyber warfare , and not ransomware . Two separate reports coming from ...

We Are Dealing With Cyber Warfare Here

OK, after 24 hours of monitoring this new Petya ransomworm outbreak, I am calling it. This has been brewing under the surface for a few years, but now we are dealing with open cyber ...

APWG Cybercrime Report: Phishers’ Command of Domain Name System Reaches All-Time High in 2016

Criminalization of DNS for Phishing Advanced Most Every Year Since 2012 CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- The APWG's latest study has found that cybercriminals have been shifting their tactics markedly, ...

[ALERT] Looks Like A New Worldwide Ransomware Outbreak

Motherboard reported: "A quickly-spreading, world-wide ransomware outbreak has reportedly hit targets in Spain, France, Ukraine, Russia, and other countries. This strain is deadlier than ...

Scam Of The Week: Real Estate Wire Transfer Phishing Fraud

According to the NY Daily News, State Supreme Court Justice Lori Sattler was in the process of selling her apartment and buying another, when she received an email that seemed like it was ...

Security Awareness Training Can Lower Your Cyberinsurance Premium

New-school security awareness training might even pay for itself from Day 1! How? Call your cybersecurity insurance carrier or agent and specifically ask if you get a discount on the ...


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