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Read the latest news about KnowBe4, company announcements, new product releases and updates, awards and recognitions.

New KnowBe4 Survey: Ransomware Infections Double In Two Years

We have just released the first long-time study focusing on IT Pros experience with ransomware. In June 2016 we surveyed 1,138 companies in a variety of industries and compared your ...
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Exciting New Features In KnowBe4 Spring 2016 Release

We have several cool new features in the Spring 2016 release! These features were previously out of reach for IT managers with limited budget, and we're excited you can use them now with ...
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KnowBe4 Gets 1st place for the Tampa Best Places To Work

We're stoked here. We got 1st place for the Tampa Best Places To Work - small business category!!! The Tampa Bay Times has a yearly "Best Places To Work" contest, and surveys the ...
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New Feature: IP Geolocation

When a user clicks on a link in a simulated phishing attack, or opens an attachment, we record the IP address of the request. For various reasons, KnowBe4 customers have requested us to ...
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Tampa Bay Business Owner Affected By Ransomware

Ransomware continues to be a successfull business for the cybercriminals of the world. It can easily get past even the best anti-virus software through a user just clicking once on ...
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Please vote for KnowBe4 at the Cybersecurity Excellence Awards.

Here is a short summary of why we are asking for your vote: Highest growth in customers over all competitive products Most complete suite of anti-phishing tools Easy-to-use, ...
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This Week's Five Most Popular HackBusters Posts

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 ...
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KnowBe4 has explosive year over year growth of 358% for Q4 2015

(Tampa Bay, FL) January 11, 2016 --- KnowBe4 announced its explosive year over year growth of 358% for Q4 2015, with a record number of new corporate accounts and a stellar customer ...
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KMSAT 2016 has been released

We are excited to announce that the Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training 2016 module has been released. If your subscription is current, you will see it in the Training -> ...
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KnowBe4 and Kevin Mitnick Featured in USA Today Cybersecurity Supplement

We recently participated in USA Today's “Cyber Security” campaign that aims to encourage readers to recognize the importance of cyber security in their personal, financial and business ...
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KnowBe4 Third Quarter 2015 is 400% Over Q3 2014

We had a blow-out quarter this Q3 2015. When we looked at Q3 2014 and did the math, we expanded a mind boggling 400% year-over-year. We added 267 new accounts in September only, which was ...
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KnowBe4 Grand Opening Sept 2015

September 3rd, 2015 - KnowBe4 had the grand opening of our new facility in Tampa Bay, Florida. The 15,000 square foot top floor has a wrap-around 360 panoramic view of the Gulf of Mexico ...
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Proudly showing our new Logo on the Building

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Check Out What Elon Musk Just Emailed Me

Elon Musk sent me this email: "If you have friends who might like to receive a $1,000 discount on a Model S, below is an email that you can edit if you choose and send to them." Now, I ...
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Some KnowBe4 Racing Fun At The Sebring Track

KnowBe4 had a July sales game and the top three reps won a day at Florida's Sebring racing track. They had a great day and here are some shots by KnowBe4's Creative Director Robert La ...
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Out With The Old And in With The New (KnowBe4 Logo)

We moved to a new 15,000 square feet office with expansion space for 100 KnowBe4 employees, and this week we had our logo mounted on the top of the building. This is a 30-second ...
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You Asked For Training Campaigns And We Built It For You

By far the most requested feature in the KnowBe4 console was Training Campaigns. We're excited to tell you they are here now, in version 5.2 of your console. When it comes to rolling out ...
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World's Most Famous Hacker Kevin Mitnick: IoT Is Exploitable

Clad in a blue suit and conservative necktie, KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer Kevin Mitnick no longer looks the part of the precocious teen who started hacking into computer systems while ...
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Ransomware Resume Phishing Security Test Gets Monster Open Rate

Now here is a real IT Horror Story. A brand new KnowBe4 customer which had not yet trained their employees decided to test their staff with one of the new templates we had just released.
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This Week's Five Most Popular HackBusters Posts 5/17/2015

What are IT security people talking about? Here are this week's five most popular hackbusters posts: 1) Feds Say That Banned Researcher Commandeered a Plane: ...
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