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2025 Phishing By Industry Benchmark Report

2025 Phishing By Industry Benchmark Report

KnowBe4’s annual phishing benchmarking report to understand which industries and company sizes are most at risk—and how to fix it.
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10 Questions Every CISO Should Ask About AI-Powered HRM Tools

Explore this framework for thoroughly evaluating AI-powered human risk management tools and separate real innovation from...

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2025 Phishing By Industry Benchmark Report

KnowBe4’s annual phishing benchmarking report to understand which industries and company sizes are most at risk—and how to...

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CISO's Guide: Top 4 Considerations for Human Risk Management

Traditional security awareness training is not enough anymore. Human Risk Management is the future. Understand the...

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Critical Capabilities When Evaluating Human Risk Management Platforms

Key capabilities an HRM platform must deliver in order to identify, quantify and mitigate human risk effectively.

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5 Most Frequently Asked Questions About Human Risk Management

Answers to the most frequently asked questions regarding human risk management to help understand HRM and its importance to...

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The Outstanding ROI of KnowBe4’s Human Risk Management Platform

The cost savings, productivity gains and risk reduction of KnowBe4’s SAT, Compliance Plus and PhishER Plus products.

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CISO Strategy Guide: Data Exfiltration Over Email

Learn the state of data exfiltration over email as a threat to organizations of all sizes and best practices for effective...

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From Primary Schools to Universities, the Global Education Sector is Unprepared for Escalating Cyber Attacks

Discover why education faces 75% more cyberattacks and how to protect your institution with KnowBe4's report on the...

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7 Best Practices For Implementing Human Risk Management

This white paper outlines seven critical best practices for implementing an HRM strategy that quantifies and mitigates human...

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Meet AIDA: The KnowBe4 Approach to Human Risk Management

Get an in-depth look at AIDA's first four agents and preview future agents to come that will help you build your employees...

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How Real-Time Security Coaching Mitigates Spear Phishing, Malware and Ransomware

Read this whitepaper to understand how real-time security coaching can be used to help mitigate phishing, malware and...

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The Outs and Ins of Compliance Training Design: Five Essentials for Designing an Effective Program

Download this whitepaper to learn how to design a compliance training program that drives behavior change and nurtures a...

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AI vs. AI: Combating Cybercriminals with an AI-Powered Security Awareness Training Program

Download this whitepaper to explore what a robust security awareness training program with AI at its core can bring to a...

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The Future of Phishing Defense: AI Meets Crowdsourcing

Download this whitepaper to explore how you can combine the smart use of AI with hard-won human intelligence to mitigate...

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Overcoming The Phishing Tsunami: A Game-Changing Strategy For Stopping Phishing

Learn how AI-powered SOAR solutions can automate phishing threat detection and mitigation, reducing IT burden while...

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Better Together: Security Awareness and Compliance Training

Combine security awareness and compliance training to build a stronger security culture and reduce organizational risk.

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Critical Considerations When Evaluating SAT Vendors

Critical considerations for evaluating security awareness training vendors to make informed purchasing decisions.

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9 Cognitive Biases Hackers Exploit the Most

Learn how hackers exploit cognitive biases, and how security awareness training can help your users recognize and resist...

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4 Reasons Why SecurityCoach Helps Users Help Themselves

Learn how KnowBe4’s SecurityCoach tool helps strengthen your security culture by enabling real-time coaching of your users...

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Obtaining and Maintaining Executive Support for Your Security Awareness Training Program

Learn how to get the support you need when seeking executive buy-in for your security awareness training program.

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Why Engaging and Varied Content Is Vital for Security Awareness Training Success

Download this whitepaper to explore the value of a security awareness training initiative that incorporates engaging and...

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Security Culture Maturity Model

Download the industry’s first maturity model specifically geared to measure security culture to visualize your current level...

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Building a Security Awareness Program to Help Defend Against Cyber Extortion and Ransomware

Download this whitepaper for actionable advice on building a security awareness program focused on preparing your workforce...

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The Wrong and Right Way to Do Security Culture Surveys

In this whitepaper, Joanna Huisman, KnowBe4’s Senior Vice President of Strategic Insights and Research, explores what it...

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10 Tips to Run a Successful Compliance Training Program

Download this whitepaper for advice on bringing your compliance training efforts to the next level, authored by KnowBe4 SVP...

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The Root Causes of Ransomware

Explore the root causes of ransomware based on a review of industry research and learn tips for mitigating ransomware risk...

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Building an Effective and Comprehensive Security Awareness Program

This paper will help break down the critical components of a successful security awareness program and connect them together...

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How Security Culture Invokes Secure Behavior

Learn how improving one's security culture directly translates into more secure employee behaviors and to the overall...

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Security Awareness Training as a Key Element in Changing the Security Culture

Discover how security awareness training transforms organizational security culture by changing user behavior and empowering...

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Security Awareness Training and Real-Time Security Coaching; The Perfect Combination

Download this whitepaper to understand the six ways real-time security coaching reinforces your security awareness training...

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Building A Compliance Training Roadmap With Compliance Plus

Download this whitepaper to learn best practices for building a year-long compliance training program with included roadmaps...

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Building a Regulation-Resilient Security Awareness Program

Download this whitepaper to explore strategies for security awareness programs designed to stand the test of time as...

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The Power of the PhishER Blocklist

In this whitepaper, learn how the blocklist feature in PhishER, KnowBe4’s lightweight security orchestration, automation and...

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Striving for 100% Completion Rates: Getting Compliance on Your Compliance Training

Download this whitepaper to explore best practices collected from working with numerous customers that are achieving 100%...

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5 Ways PhishER Saves You Time and Money

In this whitepaper, learn how PhishER, KnowBe4’s industry-leading Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)...

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KnowBe4 Remote Working in Africa Survey

The KnowBe4 2021 Africa Remote Work Survey examined how remote working has influenced business processes, security risks and...

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Cybersecurity in Government

The government sector has been in the crosshairs of cybercriminals for decades. If you manage cybersecurity issues at a...

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Example Security Awareness Training Policy Guide

Like any cyber risk mitigation strategy, security awareness training works best when procedures are written down to ensure...

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Cybersecurity in Education

Schools and universities are treasure troves of information worth its weight in gold to hackers. If you manage cybersecurity...

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How to Reduce the Risk of Phishing and Ransomware

Wave after wave of phishing attacks and rampant ransomware infections continue to keep even the most hardened information...

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Stand-Alone Product Versus Product Suite

A common IT security dilemma is whether buying a stand-alone best-of-breed product or service is a better decision than...

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Furloughed Workers: Threats, Anxiety, and Staying Away From Work

This study of 1,000 furloughed employees in the UK and Ireland looks at their attitudes towards email and phishing. The...

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Best Practices for Implementing Security Awareness Training

Osterman Research developed this whitepaper to understand the current state of security awareness training through an...

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Fortifying Your Organization's Last Layer of Defense

Cyber security threats continue to proliferate and become more costly to businesses that suffer a data breach. Download this...

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How to Transform Employee Worst Practices Into Enterprise Best Practices

Bad actors are just one gullible user click away from staging an all-out invasion on your network. Get clear direction on...

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The Ultimate Spear Phishing Defense

This whitepaper explains the problem of spear phishing and how Advanced Persistent Threats use this attack vector against...

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KnowBe4’s Phish Alert Button Teamed with PhishER Plus

Download this whitepaper to explore how KnowBe4’s Phish Alert Button and PhishER Plus platform work together to help your...

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From Risk To Return: How KnowBe4 Helps Deliver Measurable ROI

Download this white paper to understand the business benefits and return on investment of the KnowBe4 HRM+ platform based on...

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Effective Security Awareness Training Really Does Reduce Breaches

Understand how a security awareness training program can dramatically reduce the likelihood of a data breach

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