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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Starbucks Hack: A Great Example Why You Should Not Reuse Passwords

May 17, 2015 11:58:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Use this story and send it to your employees as a cautionary tale to make it real to them they should not reuse passwords in general, but especially not for any online payment accounts! ...

Heads-up: 'Breaking Bad' Ransomware Beta Tested Down Under

May 16, 2015 5:57:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

You can expect ransomware in America in the next few weeks which has a Breaking Bad theme. Take this a bit further and we can expect ransomware with Halloween themes later this year. ...

Scam Of The Week: Red Bull Money Mule Victims

May 16, 2015 9:15:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Warn your employees, friends and family about a cunning money laundering scam that is currently back on the rise. This lure was used during spring break in 2014 and apparently successful ...

Has Anyone Used KnowBe4?

May 16, 2015 8:56:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

May 14, 2014 7:45 AM BruceyBonus asked the following question at the SpiceWorks Security Forum: "Hi All, been in contact with a company called Knowbe4, they offer a simulated phishing ...

Get Real About User Security Training

May 12, 2015 10:13:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Do you despair that users will never learn to avoid stupid security mistakes that compromise your organization? Maybe you're not spending enough time and effort on training. Roger Grimes ...

CyberheistNews Vol 5 #18 May 12, 2015 How New Phishing Malware Rombertik Kills Your Hard Drives

May 12, 2015 8:54:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 5 #18 May 12, 2015 How New Phishing Malware Rombertik Kills Your Hard Drives InfoSec researchers at Cisco's TALOS group discovered a strain of malware that spreads ...

Phishing in the C-Suite: 96% of Executives Vulnerable to Attacks

May 11, 2015 9:50:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to a recent survey, 96% of executives failed to tell the difference between a real email and a phishing email 100% of the time.

Credit Union Times: Ransomware, WordPress Threats Grow

May 10, 2015 10:48:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

At 27%, banks and credit unions are the largest segment of KnowBe4's customers, obviously because they are the bad guys' #1 target. Thing is, banks and credit unions found us, we did not ...

How Phishing Malware Rombertik Kills Your Hard Drives

May 9, 2015 1:20:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

InfoSec researchers at Cisco's TALOS group discovered a strain of malware that spreads through phishing. Attackers use social engineering tactics to entice users to download, unzip, and ...

What our customers are saying about our security awareness training

May 7, 2015 10:49:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

One of our customers sent us this today: "I wanted to give you an update on our security awareness training. When we did the baseline phishing campaign for 85 employees and we had a click ...

CyberheistNews Vol 5 #18 May 5, 2015 Your Antivirus Enduser Is Exposed To Phishing Attacks For 17.5 Hours

May 5, 2015 8:48:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 5 #18 May 5, 2015 Your Antivirus Enduser Is Exposed To Phishing Attacks For 17.5 Hours The 2015 Websense threat report is abundantly clear about it. "Websense detected ...

Your Antivirus Enduser Is Exposed To Phishing Attacks For 17.5 Hours

May 2, 2015 1:04:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The 2015 Websense threat report is abundantly clear about it. "Websense detected 28 percent of malicious email messages before an antivirus signature became available, presenting AV users ...

NEW: This Week's Five Most Popular HackBusters Posts 2015-5-2

May 2, 2015 12:41:33 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

NEW: This Week's Five Most Popular HackBusters Posts What are IT security people talking about? Here are this week's five most popular hackbusters posts: 1) The Untold Story Of Silk Road ...

10 Lessons Learned From Painful Ryanair $5M Cyberheist

May 1, 2015 5:44:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Low-cost airline Ryanair shamefacedly came clean last week that they fell victim to a cyberheist which stole almost 5 million dollars out of its fuel bank account. The money was siphoned ...

Social Engineering Exploit Fools HR with Infected IT Resumes

May 1, 2015 1:58:17 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Proofpoint threat researchers recently detected a clever email-based attack that combines phishing and social engineering techniques in order to trick users into opening a malicious ...

Scam Of The Week: Nepal Earthquake

Apr 30, 2015 9:58:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

More than 5,000 people dead and counting. And you can also count on cyber-criminals exploiting the disaster. What else is new. Disgusting. Scammers are now using the Nepal disaster to ...

New Multi-Language Ransomware Crypt0l0cker

Apr 29, 2015 12:23:50 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ransomware is being localized for large Asian countries now. There is an ongoing attack targeting Korea, followed by Malaysia and then Japan. If you have business partners or subsidiaries ...

Tesla Attack Caused By Social Engineering

Apr 29, 2015 10:28:23 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A few days ago, you may have read the news that Tesla Motors had their website and Twitter accounts hijacked by pranksters. OpenDNS has a blog post that goes into great technical detail.

CyberheistNews Vol 5 #17 Apr 28, 2015 FUN CARTOON: The 5 Generations Of Security Awareness Training

Apr 28, 2015 9:10:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

FUN CARTOON: The 5 Generations Of Security Awareness Training For a change, let's have some fun for a moment. InfoSec is gloomy enough as you will see if you keep on reading. So first the ...

Ransomware Mafia Now Uses Bitcoin As Obfuscation Layer

Apr 26, 2015 1:09:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Bitcoin is a very speculative currency, still relatively easy to manipulate compared to the major currencies, and subject to massive increases and drops in value. Currently the falling ...

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