Category: cyber training

Today, KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, announced that it has been named as one of the UK’s Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces® by Newsweek for the second year in a row.

The 2024 Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces® list is a collaboration between Newsweek and the Best Practice Institute (BPI), a development and benchmark research company. This year’s rankings stem from an extensive survey of over one million employees across organisations ranging from small businesses with less than 35 employees to large corporations employing more than 5,000. The list recognises organisations that have successfully cultivated work environments where employees feel deeply respected, inspired, and valued. These organisations stand out for placing their employees at the heart of their business model, cultivating cultures of appreciation and engagement.

“KnowBe4 is thrilled to be recognised as a top most loved workplace in the UK for the second consecutive year,” said Ani Banerjee, chief human resources officer at KnowBe4. “This repeat honour highlights our ongoing commitment to fostering a workplace culture that is genuinely people-centric and consistently embodies our core values of extreme ownership, radical transparency, and fun. We are proud that our efforts to create an exceptional work environment continue to resonate with our team members and set us apart in the industry.”

The Most Loved Workplaces list is compiled using BPI’s Love of Workplace Index™ and the Most Loved Workplace® methodology. This extensive assessment evaluates five key areas that reflect employee sentiment: workplace collaboration, optimism about the organisation’s future, alignment between employer and employee values, respect across all levels, and opportunities for career growth. In partnership with Newsweek editors, BPI also took into account additional factors such as return-to-office policies, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives, as well as other workplace and talent development initiatives. This holistic approach ensures a thorough evaluation of each organisation’s work environment and culture.

For the full Newsweek list of 2024’s Most Loved Workplaces, please visit here. To learn more about KnowBe4 and view open positions, visit here.

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Today, KnowBe4, security awareness training and simulated phishing platform provider have announced the release of a complimentary cybersecurity module aimed at enhancing organizational safety during the hiring and onboarding process.

This initiative comes on the heels of KnowBe4’s recent experience in preventing a sophisticated infiltration attempt by a North Korean hacker during the hiring process. Unlike many organizations that have unknowingly hired nation-state IT workers, KnowBe4’s security team detected and neutralized the threat within just 25 minutes, ensuring no illegal access was gained, and no data was lost, compromised, or exfiltrated on any KnowBe4 systems. In light of this incident and reports of similar successful infiltrations at other companies, KnowBe4 conducted a thorough evaluation of the hiring process, identifying critical vulnerabilities that state-sponsored actors attempt to exploit. The resulting free module addresses these key points, revamping traditional approaches to recruitment security.

This module addresses critical security risks in employee onboarding process and features an in-depth interview with KnowBe4 staff members who recount their real-life experience in uncovering a bad actor, working for a nation-state government, who was disguised as a new hire during the onboarding process. The module details KnowBe4’s quick response to secure the network and subsequent efforts to educate others on this attempted attack and how it was stopped.

The new Secure Hiring and Onboarding module is designed to help organizations mitigate risks associated with the hiring process. It equips HR professionals, IT professionals, hiring managers and others involved in the recruitment process with the knowledge needed to identify and manage security threats that can arise during recruitment and onboarding.

By completing this module, participants will be able to:

  • Raise awareness about hiring-based security threats
  • Gain practical knowledge for identifying risks
  • Improve organizational hiring security practices

“In recent years, there has been a disturbing trend of state-sponsored hackers, particularly from North Korea, attempting to infiltrate organizations by exploiting the hiring process,” said John Just, chief learning officer at KnowBe4. “At KnowBe4, we experienced this firsthand and successfully prevented such an attempt. This module is born from that experience, turning our real-world encounter into actionable knowledge. By focusing on the hiring process, we are helping organizations strengthen their defenses at a critical point of vulnerability. We are now offering this training at no cost, empowering companies to detect and manage these sophisticated infiltration attempts from the very first interaction with potential hires. It is about transforming every step of the recruitment process into an opportunity to enhance organizational security.”

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