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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

Federal Contractor? Insider Threat Training Deadline June 1- Don't Lose Your Clearance

Insider Threat Training Requirement for US Gov't Contractors (Deadline May 31, 2017) SANS just alerted US federal contractors that wish to maintain their clearances must have completed an ...

ITIC / CyberheistNews Top 10 IT Security Recommendations May 2017

By Laura DiDio There is no such thing as a 100% fully secure environment. And there never will be. Security is not static; it is an ongoing work in progress. Organizations must be ...

Netflix, ABC Hacker Promises More Phishing: "Hollywood Is Under Attack"

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) talked directly to TheDarkOverlord hacking collective that claims to have studio films. They said: "We're in the business of earning vast amounts of internet ...

Top Secret NSA Doc Shows Russians Spear-Phishing Election Officials

The Intercept reported that the GRU (Russian Military Intelligence, the FSB's counterpart) executed a cyberattack on at least one U.S. voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing ...

CyberheistNews Vol 7 #23

Have We Reached "Peak Ransomware"?

There was an article with the title: "Don’t panic: We’ve reached ‘peak ransomware’" in a publication called The Memo. They decided to ask an expert: Rik Ferguson, VP of security research ...

Scam Of The Week: DMV Warns Drivers About Traffic Ticket Phishing

Online reporter Doug Olenick at SC Media was the first to point to a press release from the NY State Department of Motor Vehicles warning about a phishing scam where New York drivers are ...

Did you know how the word Phishing came to be?

I found this at ComputerWorld: "The word phishing was coined around 1996 by hackers stealing America Online accounts and passwords. By analogy with the sport of angling, these Internet ...

Powerful New KnowBe4 Feature: Training Notifications Are Here!

We have a powerful new feature that you can use now. Here is the data about the training notifications and how they work. This feature is for all subscription levels that have training, ...

Vladimir Putin Approves Of Patriotic Russian Hackers

The WSJ just posted a very interesting article by Nathan Hodge confirming what we have been saying here for the last few years. Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested in St Petersburg ...

Florida Governor Rick Scott sent KnowBe4 a Congrats Letter

KnowBe4 received a very nice letter from Florida Governor Rick Scott, saying: "Dear Mr. Sjouwerman, Congratulations on KnowBe4, Inc. recently being included in the Tampa Bay Business ...

How A Fake Cybersecurity Statistic Raced Through Washington

Nextgov wrote: "It’s the kind of figure that can make your jaw drop, the kind that forces lawmakers and public officials to get off their duffs and do something, that drives home the way ...

Scam Of The Week: Tech Support Exploits WannaCry Ransomware Fears

We all know about the infamous WannaCry ransomworm which caused a worldwide 1 billion dollars in damage, targeting mainly un-patched Windows 7 machines. As expected, the bad guys are now ...

Symantec: "Email Becomes the Weapon of Choice"

Symantec's 2017 Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) details how simple tactics and innovative cyber criminals led to unprecedented outcomes in global threat activity. This report ...

[Heads-Up] Cyber Insurance Does Not Pay Out For Human Error

The WanaCry ransomworm has caused insurance companies really to take notice. Customers have started to file damage claims, it is a bit early however to see the insurance industry's full ...

Kevin Mitnick And I Did The Cyber Investing Summit Keynote At The NYSE

The Second Annual Cyber Investing Summit met yesterday at the New York Stock Exchange, and Kevin and I did the keynote, the first time in 5 years that we made it on stage together, which ...

Exclusive: North Korea's Unit 180, the cyber warfare cell that worries the West

Ju-min Park and James Pearson from Reuters wrote a remarkable piece that you need to know about. They wrote: "North Korea's main spy agency has a special cell called Unit 180 that is ...

The New Ransom Target: Entertainment Files. Who Is The Next Phishing Victim?

Remember the James Bond movie Goldfinger? It was based on Ian Fleming's seventh novel, which first featured the timeless quote: "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time ...


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