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Vista Equity bids €4.2 billion to acquire KnowBe4

Vista Equity bids €4.2 billion to acquire KnowBe4

Vista Equity Partners made a €4.2 billion bid to acquire KnowBe4 Vista Equity Partners will pay €24 euros per KnowBe4 share, a 39 percent capital gain over KnowBe4's last listing. The company has seen its share price drop since the beginning of this year. Acquistion bid confirmed KnowB... Read more

date2 years ago
KnowBe4 launches AI-based phishing simulations

KnowBe4 launches AI-based phishing simulations

KnowBe4 has introduced a new feature that allows employees to be trained to recognise phishing emails. The feature uses AI to simulate personal phishing attacks. With the phishing platform, administrators can test how resistant their employees are to phishing attacks. The platform sends out phis... Read more

date3 years ago
Passwordless: how will it change the future of authentication?

Passwordless: how will it change the future of authentication?

According to some security professionals, passwords will disappear as an authentication mechanism. Instead, we're heading to a passwordless future. However, a group of security professionals don't believe in passwords disappearing that quickly. What direction are we heading? For many, the passwo... Read more

date3 years ago
Security company KnowBe4 acquires MediaPRO

Security company KnowBe4 acquires MediaPRO

KnowBe4 has announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire MediaPRO. The intention is to combine the product portfolios of the two companies. The acquisition was announced in a press release. In it, KnowBe4 says that MediaPRO customers will get access to the additional benefits of KnowBe4... Read more

date3 years ago
KnowBe4 simplifies phishing training for employees

KnowBe4 simplifies phishing training for employees

KnowBe4, a vendor of security awareness, anti-phishing and compliance training, developed a tool that makes it easier for companies to develop phishing campaigns for training purposes. Phishing is still one of the most essential methods used by hackers to carry out attacks. It is therefore cruci... Read more

date4 years ago
Fake LinkedIn alerts successful with phishing, research shows

Fake LinkedIn alerts successful with phishing, research shows

Research by KnowBe4, expert on phishing attacks, shows that the use of LinkedIn in the subject line of phishing messages leads to a high success rate among cybercriminals. The company reports this in a press release on Tuesday. KnowBe4 has simulated phishing attempts in the study and then measured ... Read more

date5 years ago
KnowBe4 launches free phishing test aimed at social media

KnowBe4 launches free phishing test aimed at social media

KnowBe4 makes a free Social Media Phishing Test (SPT) available that helps companies identify employees who are susceptible to phishing. According to the supplier, the number of attacks originating from social media accounts increased by 43 percent. Hackers would increasingly use social media to att... Read more

date5 years ago
KnowBe4 acquires security software specialist CLTRe

KnowBe4 acquires security software specialist CLTRe

KnowBe4, a provider of cyber security awareness training, takes over the Norwegian specialist for security software CLTRe. This provides customers with even more opportunities to examine their company or organisation with regard to the state of the internal culture surrounding cyber security. Accord... Read more

date5 years ago
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