Security Awareness Training Is a Team Effort

Nov 5, 2017 8:47:27 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A security awareness program is a critical part of any security strategy. It is not enough to simply hold everyone in the organization accountable. Chief information security officers ...

KnowBe4 Recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant

Oct 27, 2017 10:44:17 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Security Awareness Computer-Based Training for the second year in a row. Gartner's ...

Goldman Sachs Invests 30 Million Dollars in KnowBe4

Oct 24, 2017 7:04:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I have some exciting news for you today. Goldman Sachs believes in our mission, has invested in us, and is now on our board of directors. Another announcement with some more excellent ...

The First Recorded Statement Of Security Awareness Training?

Oct 22, 2017 9:11:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I was just sent a link to video of Kevin Mitnick's testimony before a congressional committee of March 2, 2000 where he explained how he was able to hack into dozens of large ...

"Large Enterprises Spend Nearly $300K Per Year On Security Awareness Training." Really?

Sep 14, 2017 2:54:00 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Security company Bromium put out a press release asking publicly: "Large Enterprises Spend Nearly $300K Per Year On Security Education, So Why Are Endpoint Attacks More Successful Than ...

Equifax Reports Data Breach Possibly Impacting 143 Million U.S. Consumers

Sep 7, 2017 5:57:05 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

The Wall Street Journal just reported that Credit-reporting company Equifax Inc. disclosed Thursday that hackers gained access to some of its systems, compromising the personal ...

Introducing Behavioral Information Security

Aug 31, 2017 7:27:54 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Ben Tomhave posted a great article on his "The Falcon's View" blog. Loved the concept and I'm cross-posting the whole thing in it's entirety without any edits with grateful ...

We Love The PhishMe Free Idea!

Aug 11, 2017 7:40:15 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Yesterday, PhishMe's CEO Rohyt Belani came out with a great new initiative. They have created a "lite" version of their platform — they call it simplified — and they are giving it away ...

Top White House officials fall for prankster social engineering tricks

Aug 10, 2017 7:25:48 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A UK-based email prankster used social engineering tactics to fool several top White House officials into responding to his messages, including the Trump administration’s cybersecurity ...

Russians Are Suspects in Phishing Attacks Involving U.S. Nuclear Site

Jul 7, 2017 4:53:42 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

A report from the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security warns of malware attacks targeting mainly nuclear power stations, and energy facilities. The attacks started May this ...

Security Awareness Training Can Lower Your Cyberinsurance Premium

Jun 25, 2017 10:15:33 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

New-school security awareness training might even pay for itself from Day 1! How? Call your cybersecurity insurance carrier or agent and specifically ask if you get a discount on the ...

See Me On Video At The NYSE Cyber Investing Summit Pitching KnowBe4

Jun 18, 2017 9:52:46 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The CyberWire wrote: Pitches: "Innovation from Young Companies The Pitch Panel was the Cyber Investing Summit's fast round of innovation pitches, moderated by Allegis's Bob Ackerman and ...

ICO less likely to issue fines for data breaches if they show staff training

Jun 14, 2017 11:46:57 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has said that in the event of a data breach it would be less likely to issue a monetary penalty to charities which had taken “reasonable steps” ...

Raising Cyber Security Awareness Training Doesn’t Have to be Boring

May 12, 2017 11:02:23 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

You may not be aware that the Wall Street Journal recently created a separate WSJ Pro Cybersecurity newsletter in the form of a regular email with relevant news. Of course I subscribed to ...

Cybersecurity IQ: Americans Have Trouble Recognizing Phishing Attacks

Apr 8, 2017 10:26:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new Pew Research Center survey titled "What the Public Knows about Cybersecurity." tallied responses from 1,055 adults last year about their understanding of concepts important to ...

SecureWorks Exposes Phishing Russian Hacker Gang APT28

Mar 31, 2017 7:27:13 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Atlanta-based SecureWorks has a Counter Threat Unit which has been closely watching the Russian hacker gang APT28 over the last few years and released brand new research. This group of ...

A Single Spear Phishing Click Caused The Yahoo Data Breach

Mar 18, 2017 10:51:01 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A single click was all it took to launch one of the biggest data breaches ever. One mistaken click. That's all it took for a Canadian hacker aligned with rogue Russian FSB spies to gain ...

2016 Exceeds All Records in Numbers of Phishing Attacks

Feb 28, 2017 10:14:06 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Year over year sustained growth in phishing campaigns produces yet another record number of attacks The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) observed that 2016 ended as the worst year for ...

[On-Demand Webinar] Forrester TEI™: Value of KnowBe4 Goes Beyond ROI

Feb 20, 2017 11:35:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 recently commissioned Forrester to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, examining the potential Return on Investment (ROI) enterprises might realize by implementing the ...

7 Urgent Reasons For Creating A Human Firewall

Feb 19, 2017 9:45:47 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

I was at RSA 2017 in San Francisco last week, and apart from meetings with customers, VCs and the Press, I found a large amount of relevant security news. Out of the firehose of RSA data, ...

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