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

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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Cyber Insurance: Is Paying a Ransom Counter-Productive?

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 ...
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Q1 2023 Top-Clicked Phishing Report [INFOGRAPHIC]

KnowBe4's latest reports on top-clicked phishing email subjects have been released for Q1 2023. We analyze 'in the wild' attacks reported via our Phish Alert Button, top subjects globally ...
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[New Feature] Show Your C-Suite the ROI of Security Awareness Training with KnowBe4 Executive Reports

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

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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Confessions of a Former 'The Inside Man' Skeptic

I remember sitting in Stu Sjouwerman’s office with Perry Carpenter and myself being pitched a drama series about cyber security by Jim Shields (Creative Director - Twist & Shout) and ...
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5 Reasons Why SecurityCoach Is Awesome

I’ve been doing computer security for over 34 years and in that time, I haven’t seen a lot of game-changing products. What I have seen is a lot of new products that claimed to be ...
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The Curse of Cybersecurity Knowledge

The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when someone is trying to communicate information to another person, but falsely assumes that the other person has the same level of ...
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Stu's Law: "You get the future you ignore"

I have read a lot of Sci-fi. Thousands of books actually. You can't help but start recognizing patterns of how the future might look like. Many Sci-fi books were made into movies. One of ...
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[New App] Empower Your Users to Engage with Security Awareness and Compliance Training Anytime, Anywhere with the KnowBe4 Learner App

We’re excited to introduce a new way for your users to engage with KnowBe4 security awareness and compliance training anytime and anywhere with the KnowBe4 Learner App. And the best part? ...
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[New Product] Users Making Security Mistakes? Coach Them in Real-Time with SecurityCoach

We are thrilled to announce a brand-new product designed to help you develop a strong security culture. SecurityCoach enables real-time security coaching of your users in response to ...
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What Happens to an Organisation When It Has No Security Culture?

Let’s begin by looking at what culture is and why it matters. Culture is tacit and elusive in its very nature. It is often unspoken, based on behaviours, hidden in the thoughts and minds ...
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Building a Security Culture With Behavior Design

Anyone who has run security awareness programs for a while knows that changing human behaviour is not an easy task. And that sometimes the problem with awareness is that "awareness" alone ...
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Security and Gender: The Gaps Are Not Where You Expect

The 2022 KnowBe4 Women’s Day Survey interviewed more than 200 women from across the technology industry in South Africa to find out more about how they perceive the industry, the gender ...
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Breaches & Cyberwar Driving Security Culture

Cybersecurity Culture is a hot topic amongst many organisations and security professionals. But what are organisations doing to build a strong security culture?
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Technology, Microlearning, and its Impact on Users and Cybersecurity

Technology is everywhere in society these days from our communication, shopping, and commerce capabilities. Whether email, online purchases, or using the blockchain, it amounts to large ...
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UK Information Commissioner: Many Cybersecurity Incidents are “Preventable”

In a recent article about the largest cyberthreats currently facing the UK, John Edwards – the UK’s newly-appointed information commissioner- talks about the need for a security culture ...
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Storytelling to Improve Your Organization's Security Culture [PODCAST]

The latest podcast episode of Security Masterminds features our special guest Jim Shields, Creative Director at KnowBe4. He sat down with our hosts, Erich Kron and Jelle Wieringa to ...
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According to KnowBe4 Research's Q1 2022 Report: Shadow IT Is Real

Imagine needing to share a large PDF non-confidential document with a customer. It is too large to send via email, and recently you started using a cloud file sharing service to store ...
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Gain Insight into Where Your Organization Stands with the Security Culture Maturity Model

We’re thrilled to introduce the Security Culture Maturity Model, the industry’s first maturity model specifically geared to measure security culture!
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