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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KnowBe4 Makes InfoWorld Frontpage

Aug 1, 2012 3:57:32 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="KnowBe4 InfoWorld Frontpage"][/caption] J. Peter Bruzzese, InfoWorld's Enterprise Windows columnist interviewed me yesterday about ...

CyberheistNews vol2, #34

Jul 31, 2012 6:29:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 2, #33 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] Olympics Scam Roundup The bad guys are at it again! Please ...

Interview with Kevin Mitnick on SMB security

Jul 31, 2012 5:59:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="140" caption="Kevin Mitnick Interview"][/caption] Kevin Mitnick was interviewed by Spiceworks' Nicholas Tolstoshev: "When Stu Sjouwerman from ...

New Cracking Tool Released At Defcon

Jul 31, 2012 3:29:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Defcon Cracking Tools"][/caption] Some pretty interesting cracking tools were released this week at Defcon in Vegas. Moxie ...

Espionage Botnets

Jul 30, 2012 8:36:19 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Espionage Botnets"][/caption] Brian Krebs just blogged about something very interesting. "A security researcher whos spent 18 months ...

My Book Cyberheist: 4-Star Review By Security Expert

Jul 30, 2012 8:26:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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KnowBe4 Sponsors Front Row Tampa Bay

Jul 26, 2012 7:43:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Front Row Tampa Bay"][/caption] With the Republican National Convention quickly approaching in Tampa, tens of thousands of visitors ...

CyberheistNews vol2, #33

Jul 26, 2012 4:38:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews vol2, #31

Jul 26, 2012 4:11:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 2, #31 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] Released! Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training

CyberheistNews vol2, #30

Jul 26, 2012 4:07:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews vol2, #29

Jul 26, 2012 4:02:26 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews Vol 2, #29 Editor's Corner [caption id="attachment_1367" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Stu"][/caption] 15 Social Media Scams Not just -one- Scam of the week, but a ...

CyberheistNews vol2, #28

Jul 26, 2012 3:58:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

CyberheistNews vol2, #26

Jul 25, 2012 5:49:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Scam Of The Week: Online Dating

Jul 23, 2012 10:26:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Online Dating Scam"][/caption] Beware, another honey trap is doing the rounds trying to snare people. Dancho Danchev was the one to ...

Who IS This Yahoo?

Jul 19, 2012 4:57:32 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="190" caption="Dave Aitel"][/caption] A bunch of people asked me this, and sent me the link to Dave Aitel's blog post which he titled: "Why you ...

Cyberheist Smokescreen; : Email, Phone, SMS Floods

Jul 18, 2012 8:04:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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8 Signs You Have Been Hacked

Jul 18, 2012 6:35:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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Security Is Not Only Training It Is Culture

Jul 16, 2012 6:25:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

We all went to school, but how would you do if you were asked to retake your finals? Neither would I. Education fades unless it is regularly reinforced. And even the reinforcement is ...

Bank Sues Customer Over ACH/Wire Fraud

Jul 12, 2012 6:17:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Bank Sues Customer"][/caption] Tracy Kitten at BankInfo Security reported on this: "In another legal wrangling over liability linked ...

VIDEO: The new 90-second Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training Elevator Pitch

Jul 11, 2012 7:28:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="455" caption="Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training 90-second Video"][/caption] July 2012, KnowBe4 officially released Kevin Mitnick Security ...

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