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.
A recent attack on an undisclosed Spanish aerospace company all started with messages to the company's employees that appeared to be coming from Meta recruiters, via LinkedIn Messaging. ...
DomainTools is tracking an increase in SMS phishing (or “smishing”) campaigns impersonating the US Postal Service (USPS). The text messages inform recipients that there’s a problem with ...
Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense.
Dustin Volz from the WSJ dropped a huge scoop today. This is rocket fuel infosec budget ammo I would send to my C-suite in a New York minute. They said: "Fake authors, bot armies and ...
A recent panel discussion of banking CISOs and experts at the SIBOS conference focused on the current state of ransomware and what institutions should do to protect themselves.
The most basic use of tools like ChatGPT to script out professional-looking emails has all but eliminated improperly written content as an indicator of a potential phishing scam.
A new update on UNC3944 group's activities shows how they are evolving their focus squarely on SMiShing credential harvesting attacks that result in data theft/extortion attacks.
Insights from IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report on the Pharmaceutical Industry shows that while the overall cost has improved, there are clear areas of risk that need to be addressed.
Millions of business accounts on Facebook are the target of a new malware attack, which is seeing a success rate of 1 out of 70, causing concern for the security of corporate credentials.
The latest cyber claims report from Coalition, a digital risk insurance provider, finds a 12% increase in cyber insurance claims in the first half of 2023 over the second half of 2022, ...
Researchers at NSFOCUS are tracking a phishing campaign by a new threat actor called “AtlasCross” that’s impersonating the Red Cross in order to deliver malware.
Do you need an easy, automated way to provide real-time feedback the moment your users make risky mistakes to help reinforce the training campaigns you manage today?
When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton, one of the first fugitives named to the U.S. FBI’s most wanted list, reportedly replied, “Because that’s where the money is.” As any infosec ...
You're no stranger to the complexities of safeguarding your organization's digital assets. But have you considered the human element in your security equation? Behavioral economics, ...
Securonix is tracking a phishing campaign that’s targeting the Ukrainian military with malware-laden attachments posing as drone instruction manuals. The threat actor is using Microsoft ...