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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

Office 365 “Spam Notification” Phishing Emails Seek to Capture Credentials

A new campaign spotted in the wild uses a tried-and-true method of convincing victims to provide their Office 365 logon credentials to be used in future attacks.

U.K. Workers Aren’t Concerned about Company Cybersecurity Despite 60% Having Been Victims of a Cyberattack

New data shows a huge disparity between the likelihood of cyberattack against U.K. organizations and their employee’s cybersecurity awareness and vigilance.

One-Third of Phishing Pages Are Inactive After Just One Day

We’ve always known phishing scammers work very quickly, moving from campaign to campaign, but new data indicates some scammers are moving on in terms of literally hours.

Canadian Government Urges Organizations to Take Additional Steps to Protect Against Ransomware Attacks

Citing upticks in attacks, Canada’s Centre for Cyber Security asks organizations to step up protective measures, offering guidance and a playbook to improve security.

With KnowBe4’s Phish Alert Button, You Can Now Collect Feedback from Your Users When They Report Suspicious Emails

We are excited to announce the availability of KnowBe4’s enhanced Phish Alert Button for Microsoft 365 with the new User Comments feature!

Phishing Campaign Impersonates Pfizer

A phishing campaign is impersonating Pfizer with phony request-for-quotation (RFQ) emails, according to Roger Kay at INKY. The email lures had fairly convincing PDF attachments that ...

Phishing Remains Top Form of Cybersecurity Breach in 2021

Over half of organizations say they’ve experienced a cybersecurity breach caused by phishing in the last 12 months, dwarfing the second-place breach cause (malware) by almost 30%.

Double Extortion Ransomware Attacks That Publish Victim Data Increase 935%

According to new data, the number of victim companies impacted by double extortion has jumped from 229 by the first half of 2020 to nearly 2400 by the first half of 2021.

Embedded Email Attacks Are on the Rise and Aren’t Being Detected by Security Solutions

This classic tactic is making a comeback and is elegantly simple to execute, yet sufficiently complex enough to keep email scanning solutions from seeing it as malicious.

Spam Calling Rates Spike Globally

Spam calls in the US spiked in October, according to Truecaller’s annual Global Spam Report. The report observed that Truecaller customers in the US received 3,115,861 spam calls in ...

Whitelisting On Known Headers Not Recommended

We found a discussion on Twitter about this topic and we thought it would be useful to provide to provide the correct technical background related to whitelisting.

[EYE OPENER] New EU Phishing Study Shows That Crowd-sourcing Phishing Defense Is Successful

A Swiss phishing study involving roughly 15,000 participants in a 15-month experiment produced some interesting results. The study was run by researchers at ETH Zurich, working together ...

$148 Million Lost to Gift Card Scams in 2021 (So Far)

A US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) data spotlight has found that people in the US lost $148 million to gift-card-related scams in the first nine months of 2021. The spotlight also found ...

NSA: Cyberattacks are Putting the “Security of our Nation” at Stake

When most see cyberattacks as something that is impactful at the organizational level, the head of the National Security Agency sees cyberattacks as being a threat to the entire nation.

The Evolving State of Cyber Insurance May Indicate More Scrutiny for IT and Security Teams

The need to balance offering coverage for cyber incidents with maintaining a profit has cyber insurers rethinking how they will approach measuring insured risk and exposure.

Over 1000 Arrests and $27 Million Intercepted in Massive INTERPOL Sting Operation

Bringing together specialized police units from 20 countries, Operation HAECHI-II targeted those involved in online fraud, romance scams, investment fraud and money laundering.

Netflix is the Latest Impersonated Brand in Ongoing Subscriber Targeting Scams

With the increased interest in and availability of movie and TV streaming services, plenty of new scams are popping up attempting to steal personal details and credit card information.

Wall Street Journal article: "Shaming Employees For Phishing is Counterproductive"

Shaming employees for falling for phishing attacks is the wrong approach, according to Dr. Karen Renaud, a chancellor’s fellow at the University of Strathclyde. In an article for the Wall ...

Log4j vulnerability - KnowBe4 Not Affected

KnowBe4 is aware of the recent log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) and has been investigating this issue in-depth. We can confirm that no KnowBe4 products are affected by this at this ...


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