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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

Your Opinion Please! Family Online Safety

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 21

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 21

End-user awareness is the missing link in cyber security

This article appeared originally at Government Security News Fri, 2013-05-17 03:56 PM By: Megan Horner Megan Horner Nobody can argue that cyber security and data privacy have become hot ...

Phishing Scam Of The Week: Walmart.com

Wal-Mart took special effort this week and warned customers of an unusually 'high quality' phishing email that tries to get personal and credit information. They stated on their corporate ...

Cybercrime Attack Vector Of Choice: Employees

Today, employees are the low hanging fruit for cybercrime. Organizations counter this with what is called 'Security Awareness Training' (SAT), but modern SAT is far removed from how it ...

Facebook 'Fraud-as-a-Service' Promoted Via Google

You may have read CyberheistNews Vol 3, #19, which had 'Fraud-as-a-service Goes Mainstream' as its headline. Here is a follow up on that. You can now download apps that hack Facebook, and ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3 #20

Latest Attack Trend: 'Persistent Spear Phishing'

1st Quarter 2013: 6.5 Million New Malware Strains Built

The Research Team of Panda Labs just reported that between January and March of this year, more than 6.5 million new malware strains were built, and that of those 75% were trojans. In ...

We hired 3 more people, the office is getting full !

We had three more people start this week, two in sales and one to help our channel partners. The office is getting full! Our Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training is doing GREAT. We ...

Don't Get Hijacked On Social Media

John Mello over at Chief Security Magazine wrote today: "Online social networkers invite data marauders to compromise their accounts by choosing a convenient but risky option offered by ...

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 19

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 19 Fraud-as-a-service Goes Mainstream

Do This Phishing IQ Test!

Did you know that SonicWall has an interesting Phishing IQ test on their website?

Twitter Warning: "We Believe That These Attacks Will Continue"

Consumer Reports: 9.2 Million Phishing Victims Last Year

Consumer Reports today came out with some numbers that should give you pause. 9.2 Million Americans fell victim to a phishing attack last year, and a whopping 58.2 Million had a malware ...

REVIEWS: Kevin Mitnick Home Internet Security Course

Now that the Kevin Mitnick Home Internet Security Course is released and commercially available we thought you might be interested in hearing what people tell us when we ask them what ...

Why We Need Security Awareness Training Programs

$1Million Cyberheist From Leavenworth Hospital

Kevin Mitnick sent me an article that illustrates why it is needed to train all employees not to fall for hacker tricks: "Friday, April 26, 2013 - WENATCHEE — Hackers stole more than $1 ...

LivingSocial Hacked. Make sure that password is not shared!

Fraud-as-a-service Goes Mainstream

CyberheistNews Vol 3, 18

CyberheistNews Vol 3, # 18


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