Press Releases from KnowBe4 (5 total)
KnowBe4 Expands Team to Include Security Awareness Advocate
KnowBe4 hires Security Awareness Advocate in answer to growing demand and explosive growth.
Tampa Bay, FL (August 30, 2016) -- KnowBe4, America’s most popular security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, has hired Security Awareness Training Advocate Erich Kron to support and expand its growing leadership position. Kron is a veteran information security professional with over 18 years’ experience in the medical, aerospace, manufacturing and defense fields and a well-versed speaker.…
KnowBe4 Makes Security Awareness Training Available in 26 Languages
KnowBe4 combats the exploding threats of ransomware and CEO email fraud giving companies a global tool to manage risks associated with social engineering
KnowBe4 Inc., the most popular integrated platform for security awareness training and simulated phishing tests, released its Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training in twenty-six language versions. The interactive, on-demand computer-based training covers high-risk topics and how to identify red flags such as the current ransomware epidemic, the W-2…
KnowBe4 Has Explosive Year-Over-Year Growth of 454% for Q2 2016
Company sees demand accelerating for its integrated security awareness training and phishing platform
(Tampa Bay, FL) July 5, 2016 --- KnowBe4, America’s most popular integrated security awareness training and phishing platform announced its explosive year over year growth of 454% for Q2 2016, with a record number of 655 new corporate accounts in June alone, rising to nearly 5,000 enterprise accounts combined with a very robust 86% customer retention rate.…
KnowBe4 Releases Results of 2 Year Survey Showing Rising Concern over Ransomware
Security Awareness Training and Backup Deemed Most Effective to Combat Ransomware
(Tampa Bay, FL) June 22, 2016 -- A new survey by KnowBe4, the US’s most popular security awareness training & integrated phishing platform shows the growing volume of ransomware victims despite increased efforts to prevent it. 1138 companies across a variety of industries participated. The study compares levels of concern over ransomware from 2014 to 2016
The results showed there is…
KnowBe4 CyberAlert: Double-Barrel Ransomware and DDos Attack in-one
(Tampa Bay, FL) May 24, 2016-- KnowBe4, issued an alert today on a malicious new trend in ransomware. Instead of "just" encrypting data files on a workstation (plus any network drive it can find) and locking the machine, a new variant of the Cerber ransomware is now adding a DDoS bot that can quietly blast spoofed network traffic at various IPs.
This is the first time DDoS malware has…
