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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

That Email Isn’t from the New Jersey Attorney General

Earlier this month, state employees in the US state of New Jersey began receiving emails that falsely represented themselves as originating with the state’s attorney general.

KnowBe4 Named a Leader in the Spring 2023 G2 Grid Report for Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)

We are excited to announce that KnowBe4 has been named a leader in the Spring 2023 G2 Grid Report for Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) for the PhishER platform for ...

[Arm and a Leg] Cyber Insurers Are Worried About The Long-tail Cost of Attacks

[BUDGET AMMO] James Rundle at The Wall Street Journal today published a very interesting article about the long-term costs of cyber attacks and the fact that cyber insurers are getting ...

London NatWest Bank Warns Customers of Alarming Impersonation Scams

National Westminster Bank, the London-based bank familiarly known as NatWest, has warned its customers to be on the alert for emails pretending to be from NatWest, but which in fact are ...

KnowBe4 Named a Leader in the Spring 2023 G2 Grid Report for Security Awareness Training

We are thrilled to announce that KnowBe4 has been named a leader in the latest G2 Grid Report that compares Security Awareness Training (SAT) vendors based on user reviews, customer ...

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #16 [Finger on the Pulse]: How Phishers Leverage Recent AI Buzz

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #16 | April 18th, 2023 [Finger on the Pulse]: How Phishers Leverage Recent AI Buzz Curiosity leads people to suspend their better judgment as a new campaign of ...

Indian Rail Passenger Ticketing Platform Warns of Online Fraud

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), described as “a popular platform used by a significant number of Indians for booking train tickets,” has cautioned users about ...

[Head Start] Effective Methods How To Teach Social Engineering To An AI

Remember The Sims? Well Stanford created a small virtual world with 25 ChatGPT-powered "people". The simulation ran for 2 days and showed that AI-powered bots can interact in a very ...

Affinity Phishing Attacks Use Social Engineering Tactics to Prey on Victims

Affinity phishing scams are ones in which criminals cultivate trust in their prospective victims by trading on common background, either real or feigned. Thus a fraudster might claim a ...

Large Language Models Will Change How ChatGPT and Other AI Tools Revolutionize Email Scams

The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) is the fine tuning AI engines like ChatGPT need to focus the scam email output to only effective content that results in a wave of new email scams.

‘Support’ Tops the List of Combosquatted Domains Used in Phishing Attacks

A method used in domain impersonation attacks, combosquatting aids the threat actor by using a modified domain name to further increase the credibility of an attack.

Recent Artificial Intelligence Hype is Used for Phishbait

Curiosity leads people to suspend their better judgment as a new campaign of credential theft exploits a person’s excitement about the newest AI systems not yet available to the general ...

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #15 [The New Face of Fraud] FTC Sheds Light on AI-Enhanced Family Emergency Scams

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #15 | April 11th, 2023 [The New Face of Fraud] FTC Sheds Light on AI-Enhanced Family Emergency Scams The Federal Trade Commission is alerting consumers about a ...

[Free Tool] See Which Users Are Susceptible to Risky Security Behavior with SecurityCoach Free Preview!

The human factor is involved in 82% of data breaches, according to the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Cybercriminals use social engineering techniques like phishing, ...

[Jaw-Dropper] FTX's Cybersecurity Was Hilariously Bad

4/11/2023 - Gizmodo just dropped this eye-roll inducing news. The disgraced crypto exchange had no dedicated cybersecurity staff and "protected" users assets with minimal safeguards, ...

Alarming Tax Phishing Campaign Targets US with Malware

Researchers at Securonix are tracking an ongoing phishing campaign dubbed “TACTICAL#OCTOPUS” that’s been targeting users in the US with tax-related phishing emails.

[INFOGRAPHIC] The Forrester Total Economic Impact™ of KnowBe4 by the Numbers

KnowBe4 commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic ImpactTM study* examining the potential Return on Investment (ROI) enterprises might realize by deploying KnowBe4's ...

Your KnowBe4 Fresh Content Updates from March 2023

Check out the 49 new pieces of training content added in March, alongside the always fresh content update highlights, events and new features.

Recently Exposed North Korean Threat Actor APT43 Targeting Organizations With Spear Phishing

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has published a report describing the activities of “ARCHIPELAGO,” a subset of the North Korean state-sponsored threat actor APT43. ARCHIPELAGO’s ...

New Emotet Phishing Campaign Pretends to be the IRS Delivering W-9 Forms

A newly documented phishing campaign demonstrates how timely themes can be impactful in creating a successful attack that gets the recipient to engage with malicious content.


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