TAMPA BAY, Fla., Nov. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- KnowBe4, the
provider of the world's largest security awareness training and
simulated phishing platform, today announced that it has officially
closed on the acquisition of SecurityAdvisor in a move that will
enable a new advancement in the fight against social engineering
attacks, the primary method for ransomware infection.
SecurityAdvisor has built more than 50 integrations to leading
cybersecurity products including Crowdstrike, Zscaler, Okta,
Netskope and many others, which analyze real-time user behavior
that poses a potential security risk and pushes micro-learning
modules to educate and inform the user in direct response to their
risky behavior. Combining KnowBe4's leading platform for security
awareness training and simulated phishing testing with real-time
behavior analysis and micro-learning results in the creation of a
new cybersecurity category called "Human Detection and Response
(HDR)".
"HDR represents a significant leap forward in enabling your
users to defend against the ongoing problem of social engineering
attacks," said Stu Sjouwerman, CEO,
KnowBe4. "We will now be able to correlate the training and
testing of users with their real-world behavior to provide the
Security Operations Center (SOC) with a much richer picture of your
company's human firewall. This user behavior data can also be fed
back to the SOC, highlighting areas for closing gaps
within their current technology stack and improving the
efficacy of the products that they already have in place. HDR will
provide the SOC an entirely new capability that sits within the
Human Defense Layer of their cyber architecture."
The Human Defense Layer represents a set of technologies,
processes and policies that is focused on both defending users
against attacks, as well as equipping and educating users to defend
themselves and their company against the many types of social
engineering attacks including phishing, business email compromise,
credential theft, breached passwords and even deep fakes.
"For too long, the human layer of cybersecurity has been
neglected, leaving users vulnerable and establishing a soft target
for cybercriminals that they continue to leverage, leading to the
plague of ransomware that we are seeing today," continued
Sjouwerman. "It is time for our industry to step up and acknowledge
that the Human Defense Layer must become a core pillar of the
cybersecurity architecture that sits alongside endpoint, network,
cloud and identity."
With the closing of the SecurityAdvisor acquisition, the first
since KnowBe4 went public on the NASDAQ in April 2021, KnowBe4 looks to revolutionize the
way Security Operations Centers monitor end user behavior. The next
several months will be spent integrating the product into the core
KnowBe4 platform, building in automation capabilities and extending
the ecosystem.
For more information on KnowBe4, visit www.knowbe4.com.
About KnowBe4
KnowBe4, the provider of the world's largest security awareness
training and simulated phishing platform, is used by more than
44,000 organizations around the globe. Founded by IT and data
security specialist, Stu Sjouwerman,
KnowBe4 helps organizations 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 recognized 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 organizations rely on KnowBe4 to mobilize their end
users as their last line of defense.
Media Contact
Amanda Tarantino
Public Relations Officer
KnowBe4
amandat@knowbe4.com
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