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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Cyber Bullying

Feb 14, 2013 5:07:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 is a market leader in security awareness training for employees in an office environment. However, when we asked people who finished the training what they thought, they said they ...

CyberheistNews vol 3,

Feb 11, 2013 9:11:56 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 3, #7

Feb SANS Monthly Awareness Video

Feb 6, 2013 2:55:05 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You may be familiar with our friends at SANS. For their 'Securing The Human' team, every month is security awareness month, same as here at KnowBe4. On the first of every month they post ...

IT security equals job security

Feb 6, 2013 2:23:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Did you ever expect that our IT networks would be a worldwide battleground for highly sophisticated cyber warfare? IT security certainly will provide job security for the next decade or ...

CyberheistNews vol 3, #6

Feb 4, 2013 7:29:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

TODAY SPECIAL Kevin Mitnick On Home Shopping Network

Feb 2, 2013 1:10:34 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Febuary 2, 2013 - Today, Kevin Mitnick is part of Home Shopping Network's TODAY SPECIAL! Kevin partnered with KnowBe4 to create security awareness training for employees in an enterprise ...

DHS disable your Plug And Play

Jan 29, 2013 7:46:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today, Jan 29 2013, the Department of Homeland Security advises computer users to disable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), after researchers at Rapid7 alerted DHS that hackers could ...

Most Common Motivations Behind DDoS Attacks

Jan 29, 2013 5:18:22 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Arbor networks Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR) shows that ideology is the primary attack motivation, followed by online gaming and vandalism. Click on the graphic to go to ...

CyberheistNews vol3, #05

Jan 29, 2013 1:27:23 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Fake Apple Invoices

Jan 23, 2013 2:57:30 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Internet criminals are getting more and more inventive with their social engineering attacks. Here are two examples of fake Apple invoices. The first is an example from the Sophos blog ...

CyberheistNews Vol3, #3

Jan 21, 2013 8:38:49 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Facebook Scams You Need To Watch Out For

Jan 19, 2013 2:21:46 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Facebook is loved far and wide by scammers. It's a great pool of an almost unlimited amount of victims, most of whom are gullible enough to fall for the most simple scams. Shooting fish ...

VERY Positive Beta Results Home Internet Security Course

Jan 18, 2013 8:56:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You may know that we are coming out with an Home Internet Security Course for consumers. Why? When we asked the participants who finished our enterprise Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness ...

Upper Management Often Ignores IT Security Policy

Jan 17, 2013 8:16:59 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Over the years I have had a nagging suspicion that only today was confirmed. I ran into a study done last year done by a company called Cryptzone who interviewed 300 IT Security ...

Facebook Graph Search Is Social Engineering Bonanza

Jan 17, 2013 1:59:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Zuck has come out with something new, and you always need to watch it when that happens. It's a combination of big data and social networking so that people can easily find new friends, ...

Here are the 20 people that did the Beta first

Jan 16, 2013 6:54:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

And got their $20 Amazon Gift card sent to them today. Again, thanks very much for participating in the Kevin Mitnick Home Internet Security Training. The overall feedback was incredibly ...

Healthcare Security Awareness Training

Jan 15, 2013 5:35:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 and it's CEO Stu Sjouwerman (pronounced shower-man) were featured in For The Record Magazine, a leading publication for Healthcare. The article was about the risks of Bring Your ...

CyberheistNews vol3, #02

Jan 15, 2013 12:33:10 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scam Of The Week Hotmail MSN

Jan 14, 2013 3:59:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Scam Of The Week Hotmail MSN[/caption] It's a new year and you'd like to think that your users are getting smarter about clicking on ...

RUSH Do a Free $30 Internet Security Course and Get a $20 Amazon Gift Cert

Jan 11, 2013 3:39:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Hi All, we have some super exciting news. Tons of the people that did our enterprise course said they had learned a bunch of scary things, and immediately asked how they could share this ...

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