WELCOME TO YOUR 2021 HOLIDAY RESOURCE KIT! We’ve built this kit to help your employees keep an eye out for cyber-Grinches this holiday season! From travel, to shopping, to fitting in that one last get together, the holidays are the busiest time of year for everyone, especially cybercriminals. Hackers know surges in online shopping, holiday […]
Welcome to the 2021 Security Culture Report, the fourth annual report of its kind. The Security Culture Report and associated methodology was originally developed by CLTRe, which was acquired by KnowBe4 in 2019, and is KnowBe4 Research’s most ambitious report. The data represented here was collected during the global COVID-19 pandemic and, as such, some
Preventing your worst data breach nightmare with New School Security Awareness Training Executive Summary The press can’t get enough of corporate data breaches. They delight in showcasing thelatest horror story about a business that lost massive amounts of private records or millions in revenue to the latest hack. You could be next. Despite all the
How to Transform Employee Worst Practices Into Enterprise Best Practices Read More »
You’ve heard that vendor dependencies are ripe for malicious abuse and you have read the stories where vendors were used to exploit and infiltrate their customers. Now, you’ve been put in charge of ensuring your vendors, third parties, contractors, and supply chains are at least as secure as you are: Welcome to Vendor Risk Management
Starting Your Vendor Risk Management Strategy From Scratch Read More »
Eectiveness of Phishing, Training & Understanding the Human Response Executive Summary Utilizing security awareness training and phishing security tests can be a useful and e ective tool to reduce unintentional insider threats. However, if robust metrics are not put in place to e ectively gauge the click rate patterns from a human landscape perspective, phishing tests can
Introduction Complying with the ever-growing morass of data privacy, security laws and regulations can be a daunting task for any organization. In many instances, these laws and regulations are vague and ambiguous, with little speci c guidance as to compliance. Worse yet, the laws of di erent jurisdictions may be, and frequently are, con icting. Reconciling all of
Improving Legal Compliance Through Security Awareness Training Read More »
Cyber security threats continue to proliferate and become more costly to businesses that suffer a data breach. One reason for that is that hackers have realized it’s easier to find someone who may be willing in a moment of weakness to open an attachment containing malicious content than to exploit technical vulnerabilities within computer software,
How to Fortify Your Organization’s Last Layer of Security Read More »
Introduction It has ruined the careers of many executives and loyal employees. Successful CEOs have been fired because of it. Stock prices have collapsed. IPOs and mergers have been taken off the table. Known as CEO fraud or Business Email Compromise (BEC), the FBI reports that this type of cyber crime generated more than 23,000
Key Findings The 2019 KnowBe4 African Report with over 800 respondents across South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritius and Botswana has found that people living on the continent are not prepared for the cyber threat. 65% of respondents across all eight countries are concerned about cyber crime. They are vulnerable, as they’re not
VERIZON’S 2019 DATA BREACH INVESTIGATION REPORT SHOWS THAT PHISHING REMAINS THE #1 THREAT ACTION USED IN SUCCESSFUL BREACHES LINKED TO SOCIAL ENGINEERING AND MALWARE ATTACKS. As cybercrime continues to surge, security leaders must understand that there is no such thing as a perfect, fool-proof, impenetrable secure environment. Many organizations fall into the trap of trying
