I'm excited to announce our incredible year-over-year Q4 2018 sales increase, growing more than 60% over Q4 2017's sales, breaking all records, and customer accounts now just under the 23,000 mark.Q4 2018 was the most successful quarter we’ve had to date. It’s an exciting time at KnowBe4, as we continue to experience a period of hypergrowth. We’re constantly innovating our platform and create new products to meet the needs of IT security pros worldwide.
Recently, we launched an AI-based product that identifies social engineering risks and measures the effectiveness of our new-school approach to security awareness training. We also introduced PhishER, a new product that helps organizations to quickly investigate email threats reported by their employees.”
Some other recent and notable milestones and awards for Q4 2018 include:
- Positioned as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for the second consecutive year. And check out the NEW spot we were given!
- Rocketed up to the #34 spot on the Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, appearing on the list for the third time in succession.
- Won the Computing Security Excellence Award for Security Training Provider of the Year.
- Selected as a finalist for the renowned cybersecurity industry awards from SC Magazine.
- Hired former CIA technical intelligence officer Rosa Smothers as senior VP of cyber operations.
- Leveraged Artificial Intelligence to identify social engineering risks with the introduction of the Virtual Risk OfficerTM and other new innovations.
- Introduced a new product called PhishER that helps contain email threats.
- Expanded its product suite to cover risk management by introducing a new Governance, Risk and Compliance platform.
We’re honored to being recognized as a leader in new-school security awareness training and organizational growth. Thanks very much.
And now we've gone from "Hero to Zero" and we're going to do it all over again in 2019! :-D
Warm regards,
Stu Sjouwerman
Founder and CEO, KnowBe4, Inc.
