Best-Funded US Cyber Security Startups By State [InfoGraphic]

Apr 6, 2018 1:43:50 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We were just made aware of this very interesting map created by CBInsights. It lists the most well-funded cyber security companies in each US State as of Feb 2, 2018. To our pleasant ...

The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Security

Mar 28, 2018 11:31:12 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Kevin Townsend wrote a great article about AI in SecurityWeek, looking at the current state of affairs and the expected near future, based on a recent important scientific paper titled: ...

Accenture Cyber Security Survey: 18% of Health Employees Would Sell Confidential Data

Mar 2, 2018 5:36:28 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Those who said they were willing to sell the data would do so for as little as between $500 and $1,000. Alexandia Wilson at HealthLeadersMedia had some disconcerting news. "Patients trust ...

Insider Trading Can Pose Cyber Security Risks Says SEC Chair Clayton

Feb 21, 2018 7:47:48 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Jay Clayton warned today insider trading by executives from undisclosed hacks and weak protections can pose cyber security risks to the reputation ...

Global Cyber Security Risk Perception: Highest Management Priorities

Feb 19, 2018 10:50:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Few organizations are highly confident in their ability to manage the risk of a cyber-attack, despite viewing cybersecurity as a top risk management priority, according to a survey ...

WHAT IS “REASONABLE CYBER SECURITY” AND HOW DO COURTS VIEW IT?

Feb 11, 2018 6:59:53 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Shawn Tuma is an attorney with an internationally recognized reputation in cybersecurity, computer fraud, and data privacy law. He is a Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Attorney at Scheef ...

UK Warns Critical Industries to Boost Cyber Security or Face Hefty Fines

Jan 29, 2018 5:42:18 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The UK government has warned that Britain's most critical industries must boost their cybersecurity or face potentially hefty fines under the EU's Networks and Information Systems ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

This Week's Five Most Popular HackBusters Posts Sept 16

Sep 16, 2017 10:16:27 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

There is an enormous amount of noise in the security space, so how do you know what people really talk about and think is the most important topic? Well, we created the Hackbusters site ...

Microsoft Wakes Up To The Fact That Cyber Security Risk Is A Business Risk [VIDEO]

Aug 24, 2017 4:57:31 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The 800-pound Redmond Gorilla asks: "Should your security focus be on systems or people?" They wrote: "In the latest Modern Workplace episode, “Cyber Intelligence—The Human Element,” we ...

Survey of 2600 IT Pros: "Password Procedures Still Are A Cyber Security Fail"

Aug 15, 2017 8:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

After the NIST passwords bombshell, we surveyed 2,600 IT professionals to find out how they were managing passwords. The answers show that IT Pros are generally receptive to the proposed ...

The Cyber Security Of Our Electricity Grid

Aug 14, 2017 6:12:46 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Guest Blogger Craig Reeds commented on the safety of our Electricity Grid. "Over the last couple of years, there has been a lot of discussion about the security of the electric grid. We ...

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