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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

30 percent of corporate users are infected with malware every year

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="30% Users Infected Per Year"][/caption] According to Radicati Group, 30 percent of corporate users are infected with malware every ...

Interview on RNC Cyber Crime - Stu Sjouwerman on Tampa CBS - WTSP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dultIFSgQS0&feature;=youtu.be This week, (very very early) Monday morning I was interviewed at the local Tampa CBS affiliate WTSP. We are getting the ...

Apple social engineered - Allows access to iCloud

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Apple Tech Social Engineered"][/caption] [UPDATED August 7] Former Gizmodo reporter Mat Honan was hacked hard. He found out that an ...

More Than Half Of Top 20 Fortune 500 Firms Infected With Gameover Zeus Botnet

The Gameover Zeus botnet is now the biggest financial fraud botnet around, and it's run by a single cybercrime group out of Eastern Europe, according to new research. Brett Stone-Gross, ...

KnowBe4 Makes InfoWorld Frontpage

[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

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

[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

[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

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

My Book Cyberheist: 4-Star Review By Security Expert

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KnowBe4 Sponsors Front Row Tampa Bay

[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

CyberheistNews vol2, #31

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

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CyberheistNews vol2, #29

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 ...

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Scam Of The Week: Online Dating

[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?

[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

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