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Stu Sjouwerman

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: "Held For Ransom"

Aug 10, 2013 9:16:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
You should alert your users that a particularly effective scam is growing by leaps and bounds recently. It's not new, but it's bursting into mainline cybercrime these last few weeks. The ...
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Watching Porn on a Mobile …Risky?

Aug 8, 2013 11:26:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
The Internet has its own Red Light District, and it is one of the most unsafe areas you can browse. Online porn is a profitable sideline for the adult industry, but a mainline business ...
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CyberheistNews Vol 3, 32

Aug 6, 2013 9:46:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 32
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Debate: Security Training Effective? What's Your Opinion...

Aug 3, 2013 1:35:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
In the August issue of SC Magazine yours truly is one of the two experts that discuss whether security training is an effective strategy in the workplace. My counterpart is Dave Aitel, ...
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Liberty and Security - it's not an either/or choice

Jul 31, 2013 2:21:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
My good friend Mac Graham just sent me this article that I think is thoughtful, balanced and provides a very interesting solution for this "Liberty versus Security" problem. (Full ...
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U.S. Commercial Banking In Top 10 Riskiest Industries.

Jul 31, 2013 11:58:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Mark Holan at the Tampa Bay Business Journal reported on something remarkable. Commercial Banks are in the #6 slot of the Top 10 Riskiest industries in the U.S. (!) "Industry research ...
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CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 31

Jul 29, 2013 4:35:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 31
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Scam Of The Week: Christian Singles

Jul 28, 2013 1:21:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
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CyberheistNews Vol 3, 30

Jul 23, 2013 9:32:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 30
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NSA Surveillance: IT Pro Survey Says What?

Jul 22, 2013 5:00:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
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Employees the Weakest Link of Cyber Security, Report Finds

Jul 22, 2013 10:31:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Antivirus company Bitdefender reported something important. Here is their blog post of July 17, 2003.
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LLoyds: Cyber Risk Rises from 12th to 3rd place In Three Years

Jul 19, 2013 4:13:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
You all know the world famous insurance company LLoyds. What you may not know is that they maintain a list of Top Risks. It's called their Risk Index and it's the result of a survey of ...
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Congressional Aides Targeted By Spear-phishing Attacks

Jul 19, 2013 10:05:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Reuters just reported that Congressional aides in the Senate and House of Representatives said on Thursday that they were notified of a potential security risk involving email and other ...
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My New Pebble Smartwatch: A Social Engineering Problem

Jul 19, 2013 9:44:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
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Why help desk employees are a social engineer's favorite target

Jul 18, 2013 9:37:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Steve Rangan over at the The CSO site wrote:
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The One Security Technology That Actually Works: Application Control

Jul 16, 2013 4:05:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
July 16, 2013, Roger Grimes wrote an article in InfoWorld that was straight out of my mind. He said: "Antivirus, perimeter defense, and network monitoring are jokes. But whitelisting ...
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CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 29

Jul 15, 2013 5:35:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 29
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Phishing Attack: Your Twitter friend may not really be your friend

Jul 15, 2013 2:03:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
There is a new phishing campaign doing the rounds trying to get your Twitter login credentials. The scam arrives as a direct messages to prospective victims from one of their contacts. ...
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7 reasons for security awareness failure

Jul 11, 2013 12:04:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
Ira Winkler and Samantha Manke just wrote a great article at the CSO site about why security awareness programs fail. They started out with: "There is a great dichotomy in Security ...
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CyberheistNews Vol 3, 28

Jul 9, 2013 9:18:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 28
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