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Read the latest news about security awareness training, best practices, why you need it, and what happens when you don't have it in place.

Camaro Dragon APT Group Continues to Employ USB Devices as Initial Attack Vector

Apparently expanding efforts outside of Southeast Asian countries, this threat group’s known malware has shown up in a European healthcare facility, raising concerns for USB-based attacks.

Email-Based Cyber Attacks in Europe Increase 7-Fold in Just One Year

An abnormally massive focus on business email compromise attacks in Europe has fueled an equally large growth in overall email attacks there, with the U.S. also seeing significant attack ...

KnowBe4 Named a Leader in the Summer 2023 G2 Grid Report for Security Awareness Training

We are thrilled to announce that KnowBe4 has been named a leader in the latest G2 Grid Report that compares Security Awareness Training (SAT) vendors based on user reviews, customer ...

Your KnowBe4 Fresh Content Updates from June 2023

Check out the 34 new pieces of training content added in June, alongside the always fresh content update highlights, events and new features.

Unleashing the Power of Incident Reporting: Strengthening Security and Compliance

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

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

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)™

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

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

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.