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CyberheistNews Vol 4, 1
Editor's Corner
KnowBe4 Grows 427% Year over Year
Happy New Year! We have some excellent news to share. KnowBe4's growth from 2012 to 2013 is 427%. The growth rate is actually accelerating because our expansion from 2011 to 2012 was 342%.
KnowBe4 now has well over 400 enterprise accounts using Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training, which was just released in its brand new 2014 version. Over 40% of our customers are banks and credit unions. Here is the breakout by industry:
http://blog.knowbe4.com/bid/357473/KnowBe4-Customers-By-Industry-2013
 We also added a new condensed 15-minute version in 9 languages that all our customers can use to train their non-English speaking employees. Our Security Awareness Training is available in Q1 in; English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese (Mandarin).
We had a massive upgrade of our administrative console where customers now see a lot more real-time details about the Phishing Security Tests (PST) they send to employees, and can create custom phishing templates and landing pages to create their own phishing tests.
At the request of our customers, in October we released additional separate 10-15 minute training modules: "Handling Sensitive Information Securely" and "Mobile Device Security", which administrators are now using to reinforce the "Think Before You Click" message.
We are in the process of introducing a brand new product to help IT teams manage the problem of being compliant with regulations like the credit card industry's PCI rules, the HIPAA law for health care organizations that need to protect confidential information, and GLBA for the financial industry. It is Software-as-a-Service so it's affordable, and the product name is the KnowBe4 Compliance Manager (KCM): Learn more about KCM here:
http://www.knowbe4.com/products/compliance-audit/
I would like to highlight two significant events that happened during 2013:
- In June 2013 one of the Big Four accounting companies chose KnowBe4 for its security awareness training program worldwide.
- July 2013 Osterman Research released a survey that shows KnowBe4's process for security awareness training is significantly more effective than other, traditional approaches. Get your PDF here:
http://info.knowbe4.com/whitepaper-osterman
We now have 12 full-time employees and expect to add (a lot) more team members during 2014.
Thank you all for your support. Let's together keep on fighting the bad guys!
Quotes of the Week
"Believe you can and you’re halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt
"First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end." - Aristotle - Philosopher (384 - 322 BC)
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A Company That Listens!
"A while back I had posted in one of the forums looking for alternatives to KnowBe4 as I was coming up for contract and wanted to see what other options were out there. It wasn't that I didn't like the product, but that I found the templates starting to get stale or not quite fit my organization. Stu (the CEO) reached out to me instantly and wanted to better understand why I was looking and how he could help. I explained my situation and told Stu that the product would totally rock my socks off if I could edit and/or make my own email templates. He responded agreeing that it was a good idea and they would look into implementing it. Well, here I am a few months later and BAM, they have implemented that suggestion. I can now edit existing templates, make my own and even create my own landing pages and assign to specific templates. So yeah, this product now rocks it! Thanks for listening!
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/427769-a-company-that-listens?page=1#entry-2860012
IT people are able to step through both the new 15-minute and 40-minute Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training 2014 training for free. Scroll down, click on the Try It! Tab, fill out your name and email and click: "I Want To Try It":
http://www.knowbe4.com/products/kevin-mitnick-security-awareness-training/
Is This Man Selling Target's Stolen Credit Card Data?
Brian Krebs had an exclusive post recently providing an inside look at a person who may be a key distributor of the information stolen from Target. It gives a good look into the eastern European cyber criminal community, and is a good story about credit and debit card accounts stolen in the Target hack and that ended up for sale on a popular underground store. The post looks a bit closer at open-source information on a possible real-life identity for the proprietor of that online fraud shop:
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/whos-selling-credit-cards-from-target/
NSA’s ANT Division Catalog of Exploits
Kevin Mitnick, KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer remarked: "This is what I want for Christmas!" Nearly Every Major Software/Hardware/Firmware has been hacked by the NSA.
After years of speculation that electronics can be accessed by intelligence agencies through a back door, an internal NSA catalog reveals that such methods already exist for numerous end-user devices. One example was given by U.S. security guru Jacob Appelbaum who told those at the Chaos Communications Congress a few days ago that the NSA's big box of tools includes "Nightstand", a custom device that can compromise WiFi networks for the sake of inserting spy software. The Linux-powered device can exploit Windows systems from up to eight miles away; it's unlikely that you'll catch agents wardriving in the parking lot. Nightstand may not see significant use today given that it dates back to 2008, but its existence suggests that the NSA also has newer, more advanced WiFi surveillance gear at its disposal.
Story and pages from the catalog at the leaksource site. Check out which devices are pwned by the NSA. YIKES:
http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/12/30/nsas-ant-division-catalog-of-exploits-for-nearly-every-major-software-hardware-firmware/
Are Regular Audits Taking Up Too Much Of Your Time?
Practically all of KnowBe4 customers need to be compliant with one or more regulations. Over the years they have told us that regular audits are taking up too much of their time, and that careless end-users cause all kinds of problems. You need to satisfy auditors that all controls are in place, but you said you have a lack of time and management support.
To top it all off, you have to produce all the evidence regularly, but the duplication of effort and keeping track of everything in a spreadsheet is a pain. Well, over the last 18 months we have worked hard on a new way to manage this problem, and I am proud to present something that takes the pain out of compliance.
We have developed KnowBe4 Compliance Manager, a Software as a Service or cloud-based application, which consolidates your audit management and regulatory compliance tasks into simple automated workflows which prevent overlap and eliminate gaps.
No more compliance spreadsheet nightmare...
Spreadsheets are inefficient, error prone, costly, and a risk in itself. Save your time, save budget, and decrease complexity associated with first becoming compliant and then maintaining compliance. You can now streamline your audit compliance management with the new KnowBe4 Compliance Manager™ (KCM).
Here is what one of your colleagues said: "This is a valuable tool. We need to improve our compliance, and this makes it easy. Duplication of effort is a pain!" IT Manager, Healthcare - 1,500 users.
Start your New Year with one (compliance) headache less and save yourself a lot of time. Up to now, these tools were only affordable for the Fortune 500, but KnowBe4 has developed KCM as Software as a Service so you will be happily surprised with the cost. Ask for a quote now:
http://www.knowbe4.com/products/compliance-audit/
Cyberheist 'FAVE' LINKS:
* This Week's Links We Like. Tips, Hints And Fun Stuff.
An "Out of This World" New Year's greeting from the astronauts at the International Space Station:
http://www.flixxy.com/new-years-greeting-from-the-space-station-astronauts.htm
The BEST SUPER FAVE of 2013: Audi demonstrates the power of their new R8 V10 performance car by letting the engine speak for itself. Run it HD with the sound turned up!
http://www.flixxy.com/new-audi-r8-v10-plus-2013-commercial.htm
Shawn Farquhar is the World Champion of Card Magic. He is so good - even other professional magicians can't figure out how he does it:
http://www.flixxy.com/a-trick-that-tricks-magicians.htm?
9-year-old Amira gave a stunning rendition of the opera classic 'Nessun Dorma' and became the well deserved final winner of Holland's Got Talent 2013. Note: She taught herself, using YouTube. Wow:
http://www.flixxy.com/9-year-old-amira-wins-hollands-got-talent-final-nessun-dorma.htm
Welcome to Earth HD time-lapse footage from 179 different and beautiful places around the planet:
http://www.flixxy.com/welcome-to-earth-universal-time-lapse.htm
Professional wing suit flyer Jeb Corliss flies through a narrow gap of a mountain range in China.
http://www.flixxy.com/wrist-cam-footage-jeb-corliss-flying-through-narrow-mountain-gap-in-china.htm
People try to walk against storm Ivar’s powerful winds in Alesund, Norway.
http://www.flixxy.com/people-vs-wind.htm?
China has just entered a very exclusive club. It's now the third country to have soft-landed vehicles on the Moon:
http://www.flixxy.com/chinas-first-moon-rover-and-lander-took-photos-of-each-other.htm?
This is real footage, not CGI! Ten brilliantly choreographed cars dance to the 'Ballet of the Snowflakes.' It demonstrated a 5-star crash rating:
http://www.flixxy.com/renault-cars-ballet.htm?
Playing pingpong with as your adversary two old hard disks. Very innovative!
http://youtu.be/goTApke6FzQ
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