Cybersecurity virtual summit to take place
23rd September with headline speakers
Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at
F-Secure and Kevin
Mitnick, Chief Hacking Officer at KnowBe4
LONDON, Sept. 15, 2021
/PRNewswire/ -- KnowBe4 (NASDAQ: KNBE), the provider of
the world's largest security awareness training and simulated
phishing platform, will be hosting KB4-CON EMEA (Europe, Middle
East and Africa), an
extension of the highly successful KB4-CON U.S. event, which
attracted over 10,000 registrants. The completely virtual, highly
engaging, cybersecurity-focused event is designed for any CISO,
security awareness training administrator and cybersecurity
professional in the EMEA region and beyond. KB4-CON EMEA is a fully
virtual event that will also feature special content for KnowBe4
customers and partners.
Following a welcome from KnowBe4 CEO Stu
Sjouwerman, Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at
F-Secure will deliver a talk entitled "The Internet: Best or Worst
Innovation in Our Lifetime?" This session will cover how our global
networks are being threatened by surveillance and crime, and how we
can fix our technical, and human, problems.
"Today, cybersecurity failures are at an all-time high,"
Hypponen said in a teaser video for the event. "With ransomware
incidents, data breaches and data leaks, organisations need a
comprehensive security awareness programme, which will bring
security programmes an additional layer of security – the human
layer."
The audience will also experience a Fireside Chat with the
world's most famous hacker, Kevin
Mitnick, who is also KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer and
KnowBe4's Chief Information Officer, Colin
Murphy. The pair will discuss the latest trends hackers are
using to social engineer end users. At one point during his life,
Kevin was the FBI's most wanted hacker; and in this session, he
will show the audience that it takes one to know one. Kevin will
demo some of the most cutting-edge techniques used by today's cyber
criminals in order to better equipe attendees to properly defend
their organisations.
KB4-CON EMEA will be open to all security professionals from
10:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. GMT+1 on the
23rd of September
2021. The afternoon sessions which will be reserved for
KnowBe4 channel partners and customers will start at 2:00 p.m. and finish with a 5:00 p.m. happy hour. These sessions will focus
on peer insights, product updates and best practices, as well as
the future of workplace security.
"We are excited to bring KB4-CON to EMEA to address specific
operational requirements for the region," said KnowBe4 CEO,
Stu Sjouwerman. "By bringing our
partners and customers together, along with those who are not
currently using our products, we have planned a day packed with
insights on how to strengthen their organisations' human firewalls
by leading with a strong security culture."
The full agenda for KB4-Con EMEA can be found here:
https://www.knowbe4events.com/kb4-con-emea/agenda. Register
here.
About KnowBe4
KnowBe4, the provider of the world's largest security awareness
training and simulated phishing platform, is used by more than
41,000 organisations around the globe. Founded by IT and data
security specialist, Stu Sjouwerman,
KnowBe4 helps organisations address the human element of security
by raising awareness about ransomware, CEO fraud, and other social
engineering tactics through a new-school approach to awareness
training on security. Kevin Mitnick,
an internationally recognised cybersecurity specialist and
KnowBe4's Chief Hacking Officer, helped design the KnowBe4 training
based on his well-documented social engineering tactics. Tens of
thousands of organisations rely on KnowBe4 to mobilize their end
users as their last line of defence.
Media Contact
Amanda Tarantino
Public Relations Officer
KnowBe4
amandat@knowbe4.com
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