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Healthcare Sees 278% Increase in Data Breaches in Q2,  30% Caused By Repeat Offenders

Aug 14, 2018 1:53:20 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
It’s not good to be in Healthcare IT these days, judging by the latest data. With over 3 million records put at risk by both insiders and external attacks in Q2, healthcare orgs need to ...
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Spend One Minute And Look At These Phishing Graphs

Jan 16, 2018 10:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
In the first quarter of 2018, after 7 years of helping our customers to enable their employees to make smarter security decisions and having reached the milestone of 15,000 customers, we ...
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How To Create A Security Culture in 2018

Jan 12, 2018 4:50:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
Ever heard: "If it was easy, everyone would do it" ? Creating a better security culture in your organization has a few challenges. Let's have a look at them, see how you can overcome ...
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How To Explain Meltdown And Spectre To Your C-Level and employees

Jan 5, 2018 7:06:46 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
OK, 2018 has just started and it has totally borked all networks in the whole world. That's a fine mess we're in to start off the year. :-) Meltdown and Spectre are CPU hardware design ...
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Book Review: A Data-Driven Computer Security Defense: THE Computer Security Defense You Should Be Using

Jan 4, 2018 7:25:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Excellent book about InfoSec that has everything you need to know and nothing you don't. A Data-Driven Computer Security Defense: THE Computer Security Defense You Should Be Using by ...
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[On-Demand Webinar] Six Cybersecurity Trends Organizations Need to Watch for in 2018

Nov 14, 2017 8:54:25 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Watch this insider’s perspective of cybersecurity trends to expect in 2018 from our founder Stu Sjouwerman. The list of six predictions are founded on KnowBe4’s deep insight into threats ...
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Spy Vs. Spy? WikiLeaks Says CIA Impersonated Kaspersky Lab

Nov 9, 2017 5:15:23 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
Wow, the plot thickens.  Attribution indeed is a very murky business.  According to WikiLeaks, its analysis revealed that by using these fake certificates, the CIA made it look like data ...
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How to sell cybersecurity to your executive team

Nov 5, 2017 9:15:23 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Scott Schlimmer wrote a great post at CSO about the constant battle between profitable business investments and “unprofitable” security investments to protect the current bottom-line. ...
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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing For DC Cybersecurity Conference Attendees

Oct 24, 2017 10:49:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Want to target a large swath of cybersecurity professionals in one go? Just crash their "cyber" party with a decoy document. So goes the modus operandi for an advanced persistent threat ...
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New Worry For CEOs: A Career-Ending Cybersecurity Breach

Oct 15, 2017 1:57:28 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
Corporate chiefs get more involved in defense against hackers, fearing a cybersecurity breach could cost their jobs, hurt their businesses. Vanessa Fuhnmans wrote an excellent heads-up ...
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