Cyber Security Articles & News

Explosive Growth Rocket’s KnowBe4 Up the Cybersecurity 500

KnowBe4, provider of the most popular integrated platform for security awareness training and simulated phishing, announced it has climbed up the Cybersecurity 500 to claim a top spot at #38) on the definitive list of the world’s hottest and most innovative companies in the cybersecurity industry.

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Report: Security awareness training to become ‘multi-billion industry’ in 2017

KnowBe4, provider of the most popular platform for security awareness training and simulated phishing, along with Cybersecurity Ventures, a leading research and marketing intelligence firm focused on the cybersecurity industry, have released a joint market report examining the state of spending in the overall security awareness training market.

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SEE LIVE: Hacker at expo

The IT event IP EXPO Manchester has a hacker, Kevin Mitnick, as this year’s keynote speaker. Once one of the FBI’s Most Wanted, Mitnick is now a security consultant to the Fortune 500 and governments.

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Report: Hackers Take Less than 6 Hours on Average to Compromise Targets

Most hackers can compromise a target in less than six hours, according to a survey of hackers and penetration testers released Tuesday by security awareness training firm KnowBe4.

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Hackers Prey on Peoples’ Curiosity, Ignorance

Despite their link to drugs, murder, extortion—you name it–we glamorize old-time organized crime figures like Al Capone, Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano. These gun-toting thugs, donning pin-striped suits and fedoras and smoking the finest Cuban cigars, exuded a certain class and charm despite their wrongdoings.

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Global Spending on Security Awareness Training Predicted to Reach $10 Billion by 2027

Research from Cybersecurity Ventures and KnowBe4 Shows Security Awareness Training Will Be a Fundamental Part of Cyber-Defense Strategies by 2021

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Time to Stop Shaming Phishing Victims

It is time to stop the blaming and shaming of phishing victims. Granted, end users should know better than to click on random attachments, but crooks are getting better at crafting clever emails that can fool even experienced professionals. And that’s just half the problem.

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NEW BOOK: The Art of Invisibility, Hachette Book Group

The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data
by Kevin Mitnick

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BOOK REVIEW: Kevin Mitinick: The Art of Invisibility

A highly useful handbook for how not to be seen—online, anyway.

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KnowBe4 Introduces New “Social Engineering Indicators” Training Method

KnowBe4 introduces a new training method that IT managers can use to better manage continually increasing social engineering threats

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