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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

A New Spear Phishing Attack Uses Compromised Government Servers And DNS

Cisco's Talos malware researchers posted about a highly sophisticated, targeted spear phishing attack using malicious Word attachments, spoofed to look like it was from the U.S. ...

Carbon Black Says Ransomware Kit Sales On The Dark Web Shoot UP 2,502%

A new report from Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) used their data and modeling techniques to come up with an estimate of ransomware sales transactions activity on the Dark Web. ...

Scam Of The Week: Las Vegas Shooting Victims Charity

And again—it is enough to make you nauseous—low-life scum on the internet is using a tragedy and try to scam money out of people that want to help the victims. The Nevada Attorney ...

Third Quarter 2017 Top-Clicked Phishing Email Subjects [INFOGRAPHIC]

KnowBe4 customers run millions of phishing tests per year, and we report quarterly on the latest top-clicked phishing email subjects in 3 separate categories: subjects related to social ...

How did the Ukraine become a Hotbed of Criminal Hacking?

The New York Times came out with a great backgrounder why the Ukraine is such a hotbed for cyber criminals like Gennadi Kapkanov, 33, a Russian-born Ukrainian hacker, the man suspected of ...

Yes, that email is really from LinkedIn. Yes, it's really malicious.

By Eric Howes, KnowBe4 Principal Lab Researcher. Several months ago threat researchers at Proofpoint made a startling discovery : the bad guys had figured out a way to turn Paypal itself ...

The 7 Levels Of Hackers

Eric Chabrow over at the Government Info Security blog found an interesting post by Stuart Coulson, who is a director of a hosting provider in the U.K. Coulson wrote a somewhat longish ...

Crelan Bank Loses 75.8 Million Dollars In CEO Fraud

The Belgian Crelan Bank was the victim of a 70 million euro (75.8M U.S.) fraud that was launched from another country. They claim this CEO Fraud was discovered during an internal audit ...

How To Create Strong, Complex Passwords to Protect Your Organization

First, some best practices: Enable phishing-resistant multifactor authentication (MFA) whenever possible If you can, use a password manager and protect it with MFA and/or a long ...