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Security Awareness Training Blog

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[Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing

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

Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense.

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Save $200 on Your Security Awareness and Culture Professional (SACP) Certification

Jul 21, 2023 11:21:07 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

H Layer Credentialing is launching an updated exam form with new content and they need YOUR help! They are looking for professionals interested in earning their SACP Certification to ...

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[LIVE DEMO] Are Your Users Making Risky Security Mistakes? Deliver Real-Time Coaching in Response to Risky User Behavior with SecurityCoach

Jul 14, 2023 4:05:43 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

Do you need an easy, automated way to provide real-time feedback the moment your users make risky mistakes to help reinforce the training campaigns you manage today?

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KnowBe4 Wins 2023 Top Workplaces for Technology Award

Jul 14, 2023 10:24:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 ranks number one overall on the 2023 Technology Top Workplaces list for the third consecutive year and earns national recognition as an employer of choice!

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[Discovered] An evil new AI disinformation attack called 'PoisonGPT'

Jul 13, 2023 4:39:42 PM By Stu Sjouwerman

PoisonGPT works completely normally, until you ask it who the first person to walk on the moon was.

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[Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing

Jul 10, 2023 8:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense.

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Amazon Prime Day Alert: Beware of Fake Logins, Gift Card Scams

Jul 7, 2023 11:39:18 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

A new threat alert from ConsumerAffairs and TrendMicro proves more than just shoppers will take advantage of Amazon’s upcoming Prime Day.

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Free Unsolicited Smartwatch in the Mail and I’m in the Military? What Could Possibly Go Wrong???

Jul 7, 2023 11:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

From the “shaking our heads” files comes the story of how threat actors compromised military personnel mobile devices, credentials, accounts and more.

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

Jul 7, 2023 10:50:41 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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.

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

Jul 7, 2023 10:50:09 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

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KnowBe4 Named a Leader in the Summer 2023 G2 Grid Report for Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)

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

We are excited to announce that KnowBe4 has been named a leader in the Summer 2023 G2 Grid Report for Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) for the PhishER platform for ...

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

Jul 5, 2023 7:30:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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 ...

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Your KnowBe4 Fresh Content Updates from June 2023

Jun 30, 2023 8:00:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman

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

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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.

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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