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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

WSJ: Did Hackers Got Into Target With Spear-phishing

Today (Jan 22, 2014) Wall Street Journal reporters Charles Levinson and Danny Yadron had a good summary of the current status of the Target Hack.

What Is The Deep Web 101

Pierluigi Paganini wrote a great blog post today. The Deep Web (or Invisible Web) is all the information on the World Wide Web not reported by normal search engines. It's HUGE. According ...

December 2013: 1 in 164 emails infected with some malware

Symantec's Intelligence Report for December 2013 is out. To no one's surprise the rate of infected emails is increasing dramatically last quarter, it looked like this

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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 03

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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 02B

IT security more critical now than executives expected two years ago

David Braue at CSO reported on some very interesting results of the 11th Annual Information Security Trends report by CompTIA: "28 per cent of respondents said information security was a ...

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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 02

Consider security training before high-end technology

CompterWeekly.com's "Security Think Tank" section has an opinion piece by Mike Gilespie that's right out of the KnowBe4 playbook.

The History Of Hacking In 5 Minutes For Dummies

What do you do when you need to explain the history of hacking to a busy non-technical manager in five minutes or less? Here is an attempt to make this extremely complex subject into a ...

Target Databreach Now 110 Mil Cards - Neiman Marcus Hacked Too

It goes from bad to worse. The initial 40 million turns out to be really 110 million. Apparently the forensics team discovered another 70 million cards exfiltrated. And then the news ...

5 Most Dangerous Phishing Email Subjects

Websense has posted some interesting new phishing research a few days ago. They started out: "With cloud infrastructure easily scalable and rented botnets coming on the cheap, the cost of ...

McAfee on Intel's decision to drop the name McAfee priceless

Oh, this one is priceless.

Firm Bankrupted by Cyberheist Sues Bank

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CyberheistNews Vol 4, # 1

KnowBe4 Grows 427% Year Over Year

Windows Crash Reports Let NSA Spy On People

Is This Man Selling The Stolen Target Credit Card Data?

Cybercrime Investigative Reporter Brian Krebs had an exclusive post recently providing an inside look at a person who may be a key distributor of the information stolen from Target.

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History Repeats Itself And IT Security Suffers

Fake Adobe licence key delivery phishing emails carry malware


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