Phishing Attacks Keep Proliferating: How to Recognize Them

May 27, 2011 3:38:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_949" align="alignleft" width="237" caption="Phishing Attacks"][/caption] There is an article in eWEEK that highlights the gravity and growth of cybercrime. It ...

Phishing Your Own Employees is a Must!

May 25, 2011 3:35:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Following is an excerpt from SC Magazine: For IT Security Professionals. It highlights the importance of educating organizational employees against the tactics cybercriminals will use to ...

FCC to Help Small Business by Raising Internet Security Awareness

May 23, 2011 3:05:14 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_918" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="FCC Board"][/caption] The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has recently launched an initiative to help small ...

Common Sense Guidelines to Avoid a Cyberheist

May 11, 2011 3:02:36 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_884" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="cyberheists"] [/caption] Social engineering, called phishing, happens all the time. Phishing leads to cybercrimes of ...

Cybercrime: Cyber Security Public Awareness Act of 2011 Introduced in US Senate

May 5, 2011 9:09:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

It was great to read that the "Cyber Security Public Awareness Act of 2011" was recently introduced in the US Senate. The purpose of the bill is to raise the public's security awareness, ...

Inside the "Phishing Mindset" That Drives Cybercrime

Apr 25, 2011 8:55:16 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I just read a fascinating interview with security maven Tim Rohrbaugh, VP for Information Security at Intersections Inc. Intersections is a provider of branded and customized identity ...

The Cyberheist Book Has Arrived!

Apr 22, 2011 8:19:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

[caption id="attachment_754" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Cyberheist"] [/caption] Cyberheist the book has arrived! The Kindle edition is currently selling on Amazon for ...

Understanding ISAT (Internet Security Awareness Training)

Apr 18, 2011 8:56:34 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

ISAT is pronounced "Eye sat", and stands for Internet Security Awareness Training. It's our bread and butter here at KnowBe4.com, so it's something we like to communicate about regularly, ...

Cybercrime in Your Business

Mar 31, 2011 10:53:44 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Internet Security Awareness Training: Getting Social With KnowBe4

Feb 1, 2011 1:50:42 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

If you want to keep up with the latest news and information about Internet Security, then you can not only follow KnowBe4 right here on our blog, but you can also check us out on our ...

ISAT: Looking For The One-minute Elevator Pitch? Look No Further.

Feb 1, 2011 1:41:49 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

It's easy to understand why Internet Security Awareness Training now is an essential part of your defense-in-depth. KnowBe4 is the market leading on-demand Internet Security Awareness ...

Internet Security Awareness Training: The Enduring Value of User Education and Awareness

Jan 21, 2011 2:27:31 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Theres an old saying that If you create a system that any idiot can use, then only idiots will find it useful. And while many companies and organizations may feel compelled to dumb ...

Internet Security Awareness Training Basics

Jan 19, 2011 6:33:26 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A great many teaching stories from various traditions emphasize how the press of daily life, or normal human emotions, can crowd out and turn off common sense. At its core foundation, ...

Phishing Primer, Part 1

Jan 18, 2011 3:41:55 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Phishing takes its inspiration from the piscatorial arts, where an angler uses an attractive and perhaps even appetizing-looking or –seeming lure (well, to a fish anyway) to entice an ...

Phishing for Trouble: At-work Email Behavior Can Affect the Bottom Line in Unexpected Ways

Jan 18, 2011 1:42:45 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Even financial professionals can get snared at work by e-mails that purport to deal with routine, straightforward transactions. One interesting phishing scam that occurred as recently as ...

Internet Security Awareness Training: KnowBe4 Is Going On The Road

Jan 17, 2011 5:10:40 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 will be making a splash in 2011! We have several events on our calendar where you can see us and we hope to see you at several of these events where we would love to show you our ...

Phish-Prone Percentage: 20%

Jan 13, 2011 6:50:18 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Today we did a "Free Security Audit" with a company that wanted to test their 100+ employees. When we talked to the IT Manager and told him what simulated attack we were planning, he said ...

Internet Security Awareness Training: Dynamic Content Updates - The Secret Sauce

Jan 8, 2011 5:09:51 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Up to now, Security Awareness Training was static. Canned instruction sessions that could be a year old, an eternity on the Internet. Cyber criminals move fast though. Malware evolves ...

Internet Security Awareness Training: 7 Reasons Why Organizations Use Online Training

Jan 8, 2011 5:09:09 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

7 Reasons Why Organizations Use Online Training 1. Reduce Costs - How you manage training is always about how you manage costs. 2. Access to Talent - Especially hard when it gets to ...

Internet Security Awareness Training: Defense-In-Depth

Jan 8, 2011 4:01:33 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

What is defense-in-depth? Organizations defend their networks on each of the six levels in the graph you see. End-user Internet Security Awareness Training resides in the outer layer: ...

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