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KnowBe4, the world-renowned cybersecurity platform that comprehensively addresses human risk management, announced that cybersecurity industry veteran Bryan Palma has been appointed president and chief executive officer of KnowBe4, effective May 5. KnowBe4’s founder and current chief executive officer Stu Sjouwerman has transitioned to the role of executive chairman.

KnowBe4, the world-renowned cybersecurity platform that comprehensively addresses human risk management, today released its "Global Retail Report 2025," revealing a notable shift in cybercriminal tactics targeting the retail sector. The report finds that credential harvesting, which is often orchestrated through phishing attacks, has become the predominant threat, accounting for 38% of all compromised data in 2023, while payment card data theft dropped to 25%.

KnowBe4, the world-renowned cybersecurity platform that comprehensively addresses human risk management, today announced its new Threat Labs to mitigate human-targeted cybersecurity attacks.

Egress, a KnowBe4 company, the first provider of adaptive AI-enabled email security, today announced it has been recognized as a Leader in 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Email Security Platforms. Egress has been recognized for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision in this report.

KnowBe4, the world-renowned cybersecurity platform that comprehensively addresses human risk management, today announced a new innovative suite of AI-native security agents designed to automate and enhance human risk management – AIDA.

KnowBe4, the world-renowned cybersecurity platform that comprehensively addresses human risk management, today announced the introduction of HRM+, an all-in-one human risk management platform that revolutionizes cybersecurity risk management for the AI era by making it personalized, relevant and adaptive.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced it has issued a warning regarding a North Korean fake employee hiring scam, which the organization recently experienced and successfully mitigated.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced the results of its Q2 2024 top-clicked phishing report. The results include the top email subjects clicked on in phishing tests showing HR business-related messages are still provoking the most action from employees leading to potentially harmful results.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced the establishment of National Social Engineering Day, to be observed annually on August 6th. This new national day, officially recognized by the National Day Calendar, aims to educate individuals and organizations about the risks associated with social engineering tactics used in cyberattacks.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Egress, a leader in adaptive and integrated cloud email security. KnowBe4 plans to integrate the recently acquired Egress products and operations over the coming months and focus on providing a unified customer experience.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today released its new 2024 Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report to measure an organization’s Phish-prone™ Percentage (PPP), which indicates how many of their employees are likely to fall for phishing or social engineering scams.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today released its new 2024 Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report to measure an organization’s Phish-prone™ Percentage (PPP), which indicates how many of their employees are likely to fall for phishing or social engineering scams.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Egress, a leader in adaptive and integrated cloud email security. Egress’ Intelligent Email Security suite provides a set of scaled, AI-enabled security tools with adaptive learning capabilities to help prevent, protect and defend organizations against sophisticated email cybersecurity threats. Further terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced the release of its 2024 Security Culture Report. The report examines how cybersecurity measures related to the human element affect organizations and the way people act and feel at work.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, is proud to announce that its AI-native platform, Artificial Intelligence Defense Agents, AIDA, enables long term culture change and human risk reduction. With the increasing threat of cybercriminals leveraging AI, KnowBe4 is committed to utilizing AI to enhance security measures and protect employees against social engineering.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, released its report on the most popular and prolific cybercrimes of 2023 with a focus on the public sector. The report examines cybercrime trends, statistics and real life examples on a global scale as well as breaking it down by specific countries and regions, while providing possible defenses to safeguard against it.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced it released an updated tool kit designed to safeguard end users during the holiday season.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, announced its 2024 cybersecurity predictions from its team of global industry experts.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced the appointment of Cindy Zhou as its new chief marketing officer. In this pivotal role, Zhou will be responsible for developing KnowBe4’s global marketing, public relations, and sales development strategy.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced it has released a new analysis of the effectiveness of security awareness training and simulated phishing on reducing cybersecurity risk, based on data from over 60,000 individual KnowBe4 customer organizations worldwide.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced the results of its Q3 2023 top-clicked phishing report. The results include the top email subjects clicked on in phishing tests and reflect the use of HR business-related messages as well as popular seasonal messages that pique interest from employees and may affect their work day.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced the launch of its new cybersecurity game 'Hack-A-Cat', available on Roblox, one of the most popular gaming platforms on the market today.

The Mitnick Family and KnowBe4 announce the passing of Kevin Mitnick, 59, following a 14-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Kevin fought bravely for more than a year, and died peacefully on Sunday, July 16, 2023.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced the results of its Q1 2023 top-clicked phishing report. The results include the top email subjects clicked on in phishing tests and reflect the shift to IT and online service notifications such as laptop refresh or account suspension notifications that can affect end users’ daily work.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced the results of its 2022 and Q4 2022 top-clicked phishing report. The results include the top email subjects clicked in phishing tests, top attack vector types, holiday phishing email subjects and more insightful information that reveal the most popular phishing email tactics.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced the results of its Q3 2022 top-clicked phishing report. The results include the top email subjects clicked on in phishing tests and reflect the shift from personal to business-related email subjects including internal requests and updates from Human Resources, IT and managers.

KnowBe4 Inc (Nasdaq: KNBE), the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, has announced the formation of KnowBe4 Ventures, its venture arm focused on the human layer of cybersecurity. Two existing leading cybersecurity venture funds – Elephant and Ten Eleven Ventures -- are partnering with KnowBe4 on the initiative.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced the results of its Q4 2021 top-clicked phishing report.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced its 2022 cybersecurity predictions from its team of industry experts.

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today launched a resource kit in recognition of Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October.