Unleashing the Power of Incident Reporting: Strengthening Security and Compliance

Jun 27, 2023 8:00:00 AM By John Just

Whether it is reporting a phishing email or something that might be illegal that a coworker is doing, your employees should be a strong last line of defense for security and compliance.

Half of Business Leaders Believe Users Aren’t Security Aware, Despite Most Having a Program in Place

Jun 23, 2023 11:35:18 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New data shows that even with the majority of organizations experiencing cyber attacks, three hours of security awareness training simply isn’t enough.

Why Companies Have Great Success Training Employees With Simulated Phishing Tests

Jun 8, 2023 1:25:15 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

We occasionally learn of articles and papers that claim that security awareness training and/or simulated phishing campaigns are not effective. We don’t want to disparage what these ...

Be a Certified Security Awareness and Culture Professional (SACP)™

Jun 5, 2023 10:00:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

All, I thought it was necessary to have an independent, vendor-neutral Cert so we would have a real Certified Security Awareness and Culture Professional (SACP)™. I funded the effort ...

Warning: Sharing Data with ChatGPT Can Be Misused Outside Your Organization

Jun 2, 2023 3:14:45 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new study found that ChatGPT can accurately recall any sensitive information fed to it as part of a query at a later date without controls in place to protect who can retrieve it.

AI Voice-Based Scams Rise as One-Third of Victims Can’t Tell if the Voice is Real or Not

May 31, 2023 8:11:24 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

As audio deepfake technology continues to go mainstream as part of the evolution in AI-based tools, new data shows there are plenty of victims and they aren’t prepared for such an attack.

Tips from Customer Panel on Combining Security Awareness and Compliance Culture Training

May 30, 2023 11:43:50 AM By John Just

At KB4-CON 2023, we had a customer panel that I hosted discussing the connection between security and compliance training content when trying to change organizational security culture.

Your KnowBe4 Fresh Content Updates from May 2023

May 26, 2023 8:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Check out the 20 new pieces of training content added in May, alongside the always fresh content update highlights, events and new features.

[Free Tool] Find out who falls victim to QR code phishing attacks with our QR Code Phishing Security Test

May 22, 2023 11:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

According to QRTIGER, an online QR code generator company, dynamic QR code scans increased 433% globally from 2021 to 2022. In 2022, the FBI released a warning that QR codes may be ...

Cyber Insurance: Is Paying a Ransom Counter-Productive?

May 22, 2023 8:00:00 AM By Jacqueline Jayne

Food for thought as discussed on May 18, 2023, an article posted in The Australian Insurance Council: Banning paying a ransom to cyber hackers is counter-productive where Andrew Hall, the ...

The Face Off: AI Deepfakes and the Threat to the 2024 Election

May 15, 2023 6:22:35 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Associated Press warned this week that AI experts have raised concerns about the potential impact of deepfake technology on the upcoming 2024 election. Deepfakes are highly convincing ...

Comprehensive Anti-Phishing Mitigations: A Quick Overview

May 8, 2023 9:59:46 AM By Roger Grimes

The evidence is clear – there is nothing most people and organizations can do to vastly lower cybersecurity risk than to mitigate social engineering attacks. Social engineering is ...

Blocking Social Engineering by Foreign Bad Actors: The Role of the New Foreign Malign Influence Center

May 8, 2023 7:02:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The U.S. government created a new office to block disinformation. The new Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC) oversees efforts that span U.S. military, law enforcement, intelligence, ...

[New Feature] Show Your C-Suite the ROI of Security Awareness Training with KnowBe4 Executive Reports

May 5, 2023 8:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Do you spend too much time creating custom security awareness reports for your C-suite or board of directors? If so, we’re happy to share our new KMSAT feature, Executive Reports.

[May the 4th] How Security Awareness Training Could Have Saved the Death Star

May 4, 2023 8:05:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It's May the 4th, a holiday that celebrates our love for a galaxy far, far, away - Star Wars! I can't help but share some cybersecurity learning lessons from one of my favorite Sci-Fi ...

[Watch Your Back] New Fake Chrome Update Error Attack Targets Your Users

May 2, 2023 10:34:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Compromised websites (legitimate sites that have been successfully compromised to support social engineering) are serving visitors fake Google Chrome update error messages.

Automate Reporting for Security Awareness Training Events and Suspicious Email Remediation Management with Cortex XSOAR and KnowBe4

May 1, 2023 8:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Security teams face unique challenges in today’s rapidly-changing landscape of phishing, malware, and other social engineering and cybersecurity threats. Collaboration across disparate ...

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