Topic: security culture
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Your Cybersecurity Mindset Is the Real Vulnerability
The primary cybersecurity vulnerability is not technical but organizational, stemming from collective mindset and culture rather than outdated systems or weak passwords. Building a true security culture requires integrating cybersecurity into daily workflows and decision-making, fostering shared ...
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Heineken CISO: How a Risk-First Mindset Drives Innovation
CISOs must shift from technical oversight to strategic partnership by connecting security measures directly to business outcomes like reputation, revenue, and innovation. Effective communication with executives requires eliminating technical jargon and focusing on business impacts, using real-wor...
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Secure Your Luxury Logistics: A Counterintelligence Approach
In luxury logistics, protecting sensitive data like client identities and shipping routes is as crucial as securing physical cargo, requiring a multi-layered defense strategy. Key security measures include multi-factor authentication, endpoint protection, and employee training to combat threats l...
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KnowBe4 Trains One Million Students in Cybersecurity Milestone
KnowBe4's Student Edition program has educated one million students on essential digital safety topics, preparing them for online protection and professional roles while helping schools combat cyber threats. The initiative fosters a global security culture in education, with the company training ...
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Your Security Strategy Is Failing Before It Begins
Cybersecurity must be treated as a core business risk management function, not just a technical issue, and integrated with business objectives from the start to ensure meaningful protection and executive support. A successful strategy requires first identifying critical assets and risks before de...
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Why Cyber Defense Can't Be Democratized
The democratization of AI and security tools has inadvertently empowered cybercriminals and created operational inefficiencies, rather than strengthening defenses. Shifting security responsibilities to developers has led to an imbalance where security teams lack authority over environments they p...
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GDPR Training: Turn Compliance into Competitive Advantage
Despite significant investment in GDPR compliance, many businesses struggle with employee security practices, risking heavy fines and reputational damage. Effective training requires role-specific, continuous education that integrates practical tools like password managers to foster lasting behav...
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KnowBe4's Q3 2025 Phishing Roundup Reveals Latest Threats
Employees are most vulnerable to highly personalized phishing emails that mimic internal communications, particularly from HR or IT departments, due to a persistent trust in familiar sources. Internal themes dominated phishing lures, with HR-related messages being especially effective, and Micros...
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LLMs Infiltrate Your Stack: New Risks at Every Layer
The integration of LLMs into enterprises requires a fundamental security shift, moving from treating models as intelligent brains to viewing them as untrusted compute, which is critical for establishing robust trust boundaries. Key technical vulnerabilities include prompt injection, sensitive dat...
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Unlock Cyber Resilience: Security Awareness Month 2025
Cybersecurity Awareness Month emphasizes the need for collective digital defense as identity-based attacks, accounting for nearly 80% of incidents, exploit compromised credentials to bypass traditional perimeter security. Adopting zero trust principles, such as least privilege and just-in-time ac...
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C-Suite's AI Obsession Fuels Critical Security Gaps
Modern organizations face significant security vulnerabilities due to a disconnect between rapid technological adoption and inadequate security practices, with 34% experiencing AI-related breaches. Many companies rely on outdated, reactive metrics like incident frequency, which only assess damage...
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AI Is Supercharging Phishing Attacks
AI-powered phishing campaigns are becoming highly sophisticated and difficult to distinguish from genuine communications, enabling attackers to execute both widespread and targeted strategies simultaneously. Generative AI serves as a force multiplier for cybercriminals by lowering the skill thres...
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Insider Threats: Australia's Top Cybersecurity Risk
Australian organisations are shifting their cybersecurity focus to insider threats, with 84% expecting an increase and 58% ranking them as a greater risk than external attackers. Many businesses are unprepared for insider threats, as only 34% use advanced detection tools like user behaviour analy...
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Secure Your AI Agents Like Human Users
AI agents require the same rigorous identity and access management protocols as human employees to prevent data exposure and security vulnerabilities. Organizations face risks from unmanaged "shadow AI" applications and permission sprawl, necessitating centralized control and micro-level security...
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Microsoft Fortifies Entra ID Against Script Injection Attacks
Microsoft is enhancing Entra ID security in October 2026 by restricting script downloads to trusted Microsoft domains and allowing inline scripts only from verified sources during sign-ins. This update protects users from threats like cross-site scripting by blocking unauthorized scripts, with th...
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AI Agents Are Here: The CISO's Next Big Challenge
Businesses are increasingly adopting AI agents for security operations, which offer autonomous decision-making but also introduce new challenges for CISOs in oversight and governance. AI agents enhance security by automating tasks, improving threat detection and response speed, and reducing manua...
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Empower Your People: Your Best Cybersecurity Defense
The primary cybersecurity vulnerability is the human element, as most incidents stem from psychological manipulation like phishing and social engineering rather than technical flaws. Employee burnout, complex security protocols, and ineffective training increase susceptibility to attacks by encou...
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