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.
There is a fascinating article in SC Magazine dated July 3, 2013 which tells the story of Atlantic Media Chief Technology Officer Tom Cochran, who blasted out a simulated phishing email ...
One - Insider Threat: Stealing valuable information for either profit or idealistic motives. Examples: Software developers taking home code for their next job, sales people downloading ...
From the 2013 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Note that i t only takes 20 emails to get one successful click on a phishing attack. Read the story above!
Spear-phishing attacks are up, and they are targeting individuals across all industries, according to a new warning issued by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation .
Price Waterhouse (PwC) and CSO Magazine just released their 2013 State of Cybercrime Survey. It shows that lack of risk awareness means companies are poorly defended. This is their 11th ...
If in the past your way to stay safe on the Web was to not visit dodgy sites like gambling, porn, piracy or other "unsafe district" locations, that strategy no longer works. Google ...
I wanted to make sure everyone was aware of an important, upcoming holiday. No, it is not the 4th of July (although that is almost here, too)... it's System Administrator Appreciation ...
It appears that Edward Snowden used a thumb drive to exfiltrate the Top Secret files documents from NSA's network. The US DoD banned the use of flash drives in 2008 after Defense systems ...
Scam Of The Week: CIA Prism Watchlist Just this morning, a researcher discovered an email uploaded to Virustotal called CIA's_prism_Watchlist_.eml. The content refers to Snowden, and the ...
The super popular SlideShare site has featured our Seven Social Engineering Vices slide deck on their front page for a short time. Here is what they sent me!
Kevin Mitnick and I were both interviewed on FOX TV about how to fight hackers, and what hackers are after these days. You will see Kevin, me, the KnowBe4 office and some of the KnowBe4 ...
The Seven Deadly Social Engineering Vices blog post has been viewed well over 11,000 times and has gone viral. That's why we created a (much prettier) SlideShare version for you which you ...
