Tax season is upon us, which makes this prime time for hackers to target your unsuspecting users with the latest Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams. In this webinar Erich Kron and James McQuiggan, KnowBe4 Security Awareness Advocates, discuss the new types of BEC scams you can expect to see, what your users should be on alert for this tax season, and how to protect your organization from these evolved threats.
It’s become more and more evident to organizations that new-school security awareness training is an absolute requirement for managing the ongoing problem of social engineering. But how do you develop a program that will deliver the goods without doubling your workload or costing an arm and a leg? In this on-demand webinar Perry Carpenter, KnowBe4’s Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer and former Gartner Analyst, steps you through key measures that will help you make an informed security awareness decision for your organization.
To help you master the challenges IT Professionals like you may face in the coming year, KnowBe4 Evangelists, Roger Grimes, Javvad Malik and Erich Kron, share their top predictions and discuss where the future of security awareness is heading in 2020.
Endpoint security, firewalls, VPNs, authentication systems… we’ve all got them. But do they really provide the comprehensive level of security your organization needs to keep the bad guys out? In this exclusive webinar Kevin Mitnick, the World's Most Famous Hacker and KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer, and Perry Carpenter, KnowBe4's Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer, show you shocking examples of significant vulnerabilities that social engineers and hackers use to circumvent these traditional security layers.
Because third-party phishing attacks look like legitimate emails from your vendors’ domains, traditional defenses often don't work against them or they are severely weakened. Your only defense is a strong human firewall. Join Erich Kron to find out how third-party phishing attacks operate, how you can spot them, and learn what defenses do and don't work against them.
Having spent over a decade as part of the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence and the Counterterrorism Mission Center, Rosa Smothers knows the ins and outs of leading cyber operations against terrorists and nation-state adversaries. Join her and Perry Carpenter as they walk you through the murky underworld of threats and exploits that your organization can't afford to ignore.
Whether you're creating a new product, going through a merger & acquisitions, or significantly changing a process in your organization, new processing activities can present high risk to your organization. One way to reduce risks and identify security/privacy risk is to conduct a data privacy impact assessment.
We have all seen them. Fake news articles that get passed off as legit sources. Misleading memes. Entertaining videos that swap people’s faces. But what if these deception techniques were used against you to gain access to your organization? What if you receive a phone call or see a video from someone who sounds or even looks like your CEO, but it’s not really them?
Three experts. 10 hot topics. Sixty minutes. What happens when you lock highly opinionated security awareness experts in a room with a microphone and a list of top security issues facing your organization? This is your chance to find out!
Today’s phishing attacks have evolved way beyond spray-and-pray emails that mass target victims. Instead, the bad guys have carefully researched your organization in order to set the perfect trap. And pretexting is the key. In this webinar Kevin Mitnick shows how the bad guys craft such cunning attacks.
Did you know that even when DMARC, SPF and DKIM are enabled, 81% of phishing attacks still continue to sail right through to the end-user? Let Roger Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, teach you how to enable DMARC, SPF, DKIM the right way, and learn the six reasons why phishing still might get through to your inbox and what you can do to maximize your defenses.
The scary fact is that human error is a contributing factor in more than 90% of breaches. With so many technical controls in place hackers are still getting through to your end users,making them your last line of defense. How are they so easily manipulated into giving the bad guys what they want? Well, hackers are crafty. And the best way to beat them is to understand the way they work.
Ever wonder how hackers, spies, and con-artists gather such detailed and convincing intel on their targets? Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker and KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer, knows. In this mind-blowing webinar, Kevin and Perry Carpenter, KnowBe4's Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer, give you an inside look into some of Kevin’s most prized, underground OSINT secrets and how the bad guys use those techniques to target your users and your organizations.
There is one constant in the security world: the attackers will continue to evolve their methods as the defenders find ways to thwart attacks. Your users stand -- knowingly or not -- at the front lines in the battle to secure your network. And the battlefront is email. Watch this video where two of the industry’s leading experts – Featured Gartner Research Analyst, Neil Wynne, and KnowBe4’s Chief Evangelist & Strategy Officer, Perry Carpenter -- analyze attacker methods and offer practical advice.
You know that "security awareness" is key to a comprehensive security strategy. But just because someone is aware doesn't mean they care. So how can you design programs that work with, rather than against, human nature? Here's the great news. Creating a security awareness strategy that not only educates but reinforces good behaviors can be achieved and we'll show you how.
Microsoft MVP, Nick Cavalancia, and KnowBe4's Security Awareness Advocate, Erich Kron, are here to help you sort out what should keep you up and what other IT pros like you really have a handle on as they discuss the results of KnowBe4’s 2019 What Keeps You Up At Night Report.
Roger Grimes, KnowBe4’s Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, covers a number of techniques you can implement now to minimize cybersecurity risk due to phishing and social engineering attacks. Don’t get caught in a phishing net! Learn how to avoid having your end users take the bait.
Roger Grimes and Erich Kron will help you decide how to invest your time and money wisely, how to implement worthwhile defenses, and what holes to plug so your organization gets the best bang for your security budget buck. Join them to uncover the truth behind the Top 5 IT Security Myths.
Roger A. Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, will explore 10 ways hackers use social engineering to trick your users into revealing sensitive data or enabling malicious code to run. Plus, he'll share a (pre-filmed) hacking demo by KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer, Kevin Mitnick.
Many of the world's most reputable organizations rely on Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker and KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer, to uncover their most dangerous security flaws. Kevin’s experience as a security consultant and his vast knowledge of social engineering are part of what help you train your users to stay a step ahead of the bad guys. Wouldn’t it be great if you had insight into the latest threats and could find out “What Would Kevin Do”? Now you can!
This is the true story of an IT Manager who was tired of his users clicking on everything and wanted to teach them a lesson… in a good way. Find out what happens, when you stop being polite and start getting real. The Real World: New-School Security Awareness Training!
In this unique webinar, you will learn about the recent NIST controversy and related password cracking problems. The “combatants” will be on the one side KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer, Kevin Mitnick with decades of first-hand “red-side” penetration testing experience, and on the other side Roger Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist with decades of experience on the blue team.
KnowBe4's Founder & CEO, Stu Sjouwerman, along with Chief Evangelist & Strategy Officer, Perry Carpenter, take you into the future of social engineering and cybercrime. Stu and Perry will give you a run-down of the big themes of 2018 and then dive deep into their predictions of what you need to prepare your organization and people for next year. You can't afford to miss this one.
Kevin Mitnick, the world's most famous hacker and KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer, along with Perry Carpenter, KnowBe4’s Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer, share social engineering insights and experiences. The secrets he shared will help you defend against social engineering threats posed by the bad guys and keep them from manipulating your unsuspecting users.
Cryptomining infections are growing exponentially this year. Bad guys are hijacking your network processing power to steal your workstation and server resources. They are using various families of malware trying to stay under your radar.
Quantum computing is a game-changer and will have a huge impact on the way we do business, safeguard data, explore space, and even predict weather events. Yet, some experts say, in the not so distant future, quantum computers will break existing public key cryptography forever. Roger Grimes, KnowBe4's Data-Driven Defense Evangelist, explores the ways bad guys will be able to use the quantum computing break to learn more secrets than ever before and use that information in increasingly sophisticated spear-phishing attacks.
The bad guys are getting very creative, impersonating an executive in your organization and asking for financial reports or they ask employees in payroll to make changes to bank accounts. According to the FBI, their efforts have earned them an estimated $12 billion through Business Email Compromise also known as CEO fraud scams. Defending against these types of phishing attacks is possible by layering technical and non-technical controls.
When it comes to combating the growing number of cyber security threats, most organizations continue to place more trust in technology-based solutions than on training their employees to be more aware of the threat landscape and able to recognize the red flags in cyber breach attempts. Join Erich Kron as he explains the emerging threats, the strengths and weaknesses that users bring to an organization's security culture, and strategies to fortify your organization's last layer of security, your users.
Attackers follow a number of paths as they search for entry-points into your organization. Join Perry Carpenter, Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer at KnowBe4 and former Gartner Research Analyst, in this practical session providing a high-level overview of the theory/practices used, showing you how to simulate those same tactics using both free and subscription-based aspects of KnowBe4's platform.
As a security leader, you’re faced with a tough choice. Even as you increase your budget for sophisticated security software, your exposure to cybercrime keeps going up! IT security seems to be a race between effective technology and clever attack methods. However, there’s an often overlooked security layer that can significantly reduce your organization’s attack surface: New-school security awareness training. Do you know how your organization compares to your peers of similar size?
Recently, the news has been packed with W-2 phishing and CEO fraud, also known as "Business Email Compromise" attacks, costing companies over 3.4 billion dollars in 2017. Per a new “urgent alert” issued by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, internet criminals have now combined both schemes and at the same time are targeting a much wider range of organizations than ever before. Join Erich Kron to look at scary features of the new threats of W-2 phishing and CEO fraud, give actionable info that you need to prevent infections, and what to do when you are hit.
If we look at history, we are quickly reminded that all progress comes with unintended consequences. And, while there is a lot of societal good that can come from Aritificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), we also need to understand and prepare for the misuse and abuse of such technologies. Take a fascinating dive into the shadowy world of how AI and ML are being weaponized today and what the next wave(s) of weaponization will likely look like.
Everyone knows that multi-factor authentication (MFA) is more secure than a simple login name and password, but too many people think that MFA is a perfect, unhackable solution. It isn't! We will explore 12 ways hackers can and do get around your favorite MFA solution. The webinar includes real-life successful examples of every attack type. It will end by telling you how to better defend your MFA solution so that you get maximum benefit and security.
View this 30-minute webinar “Counter the Careless Click: Tools to Help You Train Your Users” where Erich Kron CISSP, Security Awareness Advocate of KnowBe4, will provide a practical session with tips and free tools you can implement now to help you create your “human firewall”.
Join Stu Sjouwerman and Perry Carpenter as they provide fun and engaging examples of mental manipulation in everyday life: from the tactics used by oily car dealers, to sophisticated social engineering and online scams. Additionally, They'll look at how to ethically use the very same levers when educating our users.
The intersection between technology and human security is a difficult challenge for any organization to tackle. Cyber criminals are rapidly evolving their techniques and tactics to even greater levels of sophistication. Hear practical advice on how to make both security and technology work with (rather than against) human nature to help reduce technology friction and simultaneously raise the security posture and resilience of the organization.
With 91% of data breaches being the result of human error, security leader, auditors, and regulators are increasingly focused on creating an effective security awareness and training program that focuses on the human side of security. Join our guest speaker, Nick Hayes from Forrester Research, and KnowBe4's own Perry Carpenter for results-focused strategies and insight for building a world class security awareness training program.
Most companies have huge gaps in their computer security defenses, and can be compromised at will by a determined hacker. The industry even has a term for it: “Assume Breach”. But it doesn’t have to be that way!
Watch this insider’s perspective of cybersecurity trends to expect in 2018 from our founder Stu Sjouwerman. The list of six predictions are founded on KnowBe4’s deep insight into threats that organizations experience today and should expect tomorrow.
Successful hackers understand that the user is the weakest link in the security chain. Email phishing campaigns have proven to be the path of least resistance to get unsuspecting individuals to download and install their malicious software. In this 30-minute webinar, you’ll learn the techniques that social engineers are finding success with and how to implement them into your simulated phishing attacks to inoculate your end users.
In this 30-minute webinar Erich Kron CISSP, Security Awareness Advocate of KnowBe4, will look at scary features of new ransomware strains and give you 5 strategies you can implement now to help you prevent ransomware and how to fortify your last line of defense—your end users.
Not a week goes by without hearing about a network breach of some major corporation, agency or public figure, including government officials! This webinar we will describe today's threat landscape and offer some practical, every-day protections you can take to protect your organization.
While reported numbers fluctuate from industry study to industry study, they all agree on one thing: cybercriminals are successfully and consistently exploiting human nature to accomplish their goals. Prudent security leaders know that security awareness and training is key to strengthening their ‘human firewall’ – but they often don’t know where to start.
CEO fraud, also known as Business Email Compromise (BEC) has victimized more than 22,000 organizations and is responsible for over $5.3 billion in losses. Despite these statistics, CEO fraud remains a blind spot for many C-level executives who quickly learn the consequences of a weak cyber-risk assessment.
KnowBe4 recently commissioned Forrester to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study, examining the potential Return on Investment (ROI) enterprises might realize by implementing KnowBe4. How does 127% ROI with a one-month payback sound?
