KnowBe4 Archives

June 13, 2022

KnowBe4’s report on top-clicked phishing emails of 2022, By Anna Collard, SVP Content Strategy & Evangelist at KnowBe4 Africa JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, June 10, 2022/APO Group/ —By Anna Collard, SVP Content Strategy & Evangelist at KnowBe4 Africa (www.KnowBe4.com). In 2021, phishing attacks increased by 7.3% according to the ESET Threat Report […]

September 30, 2021

It’s become critical to manage the human firewall to minimise risk and improve an organisation’s security posture JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, September 29, 2021/ — It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month at a time when cybersecurity awareness should be on everyone’s mind. The risk of attack has soared, according to Atlas VPN (https://bit.ly/3ojkQgI) – 45% of […]

July 29, 2021

Most people in Africa who work from home are not engaging in safe online behaviour and putting both themselves, and the business, at risk JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, July 29, 2021/ — By Anna Collard More than 50% of IT teams believe that employees have bad security habits. Habits they’ve developed since moving their offices into […]

June 23, 2021

What do adversaries and threat actors think as they dive deep into your organisation’s defences? JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, June 23, 2021/ — Cyber criminals come in many different flavours, but the majority of them are in it for one thing: financial pay-off. They want the money that comes with offering their tools […]

May 18, 2021

Zero Trust is a security model based on a set of design principles that assumes that a breach is inevitable or has likely already occurred JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, May 18, 2021/ — By Anna Collard, SVP Content Strategy & Evangelist at KnowBe4 AFRICA (www.KnowBe4.com) During a preview of this year’s RSA conference, […]

April 29, 2021

It is time to innovate, shape, change and redefine how your organisation approaches skills development, because the risk is high JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, April 29, 2021 The cybersecurity skills shortage is worsening. This is the definitive view of the ESG report ‘The Life and Times of Cybersecurity Professionals 2020’ (https://bit.ly/3vq9Xda), and that […]

The great phishing fail (By Anna Collard)

Mindful Cybersecurity: The future of security

Train the hybrid mind (By Anna Collard)

Inside the mind of a cyber criminal

Importance of Security culture in Zero Trust Security Models (By Anna Collard)

Short on skills, big on threat. The security challenges.