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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

[May the 4th] How Security Awareness Training Could Have Saved the Death Star

It's May the 4th, a holiday that celebrates our love for a galaxy far, far, away - Star Wars! I can't help but share some cybersecurity learning lessons from one of my favorite Sci-Fi ...

[FREE RESOURCE KIT] New Password Security Resource Kit to Celebrate World Password Day!

It's World Password Day! This holiday is to ensure everyone always practices good password hygiene. This year, we wanted to share the best password resources with you to share with your ...

WSJ: "Merck’s Insurers On the Hook in $1.4 Billion NotPetya Attack, Court Says"

I get the WSJ Cybersecurity newsletter, which by the way is warmly recommended. Kim Nash today reported a shocker which will make everyone's insurance premiums go even further up: "Six ...

[Feet on the Ground] Stepping Carefully When Making an AI Your BFF

Bloomberg's Brad Stone wrote an op-ed covering this topic. In the past month, a chatbot called "My AI" or "Sage" has appeared as a new friend for several hundred million Snapchat users. ...

[Watch Your Back] New Fake Chrome Update Error Attack Targets Your Users

Compromised websites (legitimate sites that have been successfully compromised to support social engineering) are serving visitors fake Google Chrome update error messages.

Phishing as an Espionage Tactic for Cybercriminals

Phishing is a familiar criminal tactic. It’s also used by intelligence services for cyber espionage campaigns. On Friday, April 28th, 2023, CERT-UA, Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response ...

Phishing Attack Frequency Rises Nearly 50% as Some Sectors Increase by as Much as 576%

New data provides a multi-faceted look at the changing face of phishing attacks. This data includes who’s being targeted, the tactics being used, and why phishing attacks continue to work.

Automate Reporting for Security Awareness Training Events and Suspicious Email Remediation Management with Cortex XSOAR and KnowBe4

Security teams face unique challenges in today’s rapidly-changing landscape of phishing, malware, and other social engineering and cybersecurity threats. Collaboration across disparate ...

Your KnowBe4 Fresh Content Updates from April 2023

Check out the 19 new pieces of training content added in April, alongside the always fresh content update highlights, events and new features.

Heart of the Matter: How LLMs Can Show Political Bias in Their Outputs

Wired just published an interesting story about political bias that can show up in LLM's due to their training. It is becoming clear that training an LLM to exhibit a certain bias is ...

[Eyes Wide Shut] Fed Powell's Call with Russian Pranksters Exposed as Social Engineering

It was all over the news. Fed's Jerome Powell was social engineered by Russian pranksters posing as Zelensky.

[Live Demo] Customizing Your Compliance Training to Increase Effectiveness

Linking compliance training to specific outcomes is hard. Compliance training has a reputation for being challenging for organizations to offer, difficult to do right and employees are ...

Does ChatGPT Have Cybersecurity Tells?

Poker players and other human lie detectors look for “tells,” that is, a sign by which someone might unwittingly or involuntarily reveal what they know, or what they intend to do. A ...

Latest QBot Attacks Use a Mixture of PDF Attachments and Windows Scripting Host Files to Infect Victims

QBot malware seems to be outliving its competitors through innovative new ways to socially engineer victims into helping install it.

Scammers Impersonate Zelle via the Lure of “Getting Paid” to Get Paid Themselves

A new impersonation scam targets users of the popular pay platform under the guise of the victim having money coming to them and with the goal to obtain Zelle credentials.

Despite a Majority of Organizations Believing They’re Prepared for Cyber Attacks, Half Were Still Victims

A new survey points to an overconfidence around organization’s preparedness, despite admitting to falling victim to ransomware attacks – in some cases multiple times.

Organizations Have No Idea of a Data Breach’s Root Cause in 42% of Reported Cases

New data shows how poorly organizations are at identifying – let alone removing – an attacker's foothold, putting themselves at continued risk of further attacks and data breaches.

Recruiting Money Mules

Money mules play a subordinate but important role in the criminal economy. They’re used to move stolen funds around, a low-level version of illicit remittance and money laundering. ...

Fake Meta Tech Support Profiles for Fraud

Researchers at Group-IB have found an extensive campaign in which criminal operators have created a large number of fake Facebook profiles that repost messages in which the scammers ...

Another Perspective on ChatGPT's Social Engineering Potential

We’ve had occasion to write about ChatGPT’s potential for malign use in social engineering, both in the generation of phishbait at scale and as a topical theme that can appear in lures. ...


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