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This week, KnowBe4, the provider of security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, announced the release of its new 2024 Holiday Resource Kit, designed to strengthen users’ cyber defences during the festive season.

This year’s kit builds on the success of previous versions, offering a selection of new and improved resources to address the latest holiday-related cyberthreats. The comprehensive toolkit provides useful insights into holiday-specific scams, equipping users with the necessary skills to counteract seasonal threats targeting holiday shoppers. The 2024 Holiday Kit is available free to individuals and organisations worldwide and offered in multiple languages, reflecting KnowBe4’s commitment to human risk management.

“At KnowBe4, we recognise the unique challenges posed by the holiday season, when cybercriminals intensify their efforts to exploit the spike in online shopping,” said Stu Sjouwerman, CEO, KnowBe4. “Our 2024 holiday kit is crafted to provide users with the knowledge and practical resources to effectively manage these threats. By understanding and anticipating the latest scams, users can shop online securely throughout the festive season. This resource kit prepares individuals and organisations to help them maintain a vigilant stance as they face the heightened risks of the season with confidence, ultimately enhancing their approach to human risk management.”

 

The 2024 holiday kit includes the following:

● The Gift of Awareness: Holiday Cybersecurity Essentials training module

● Holiday Cybersecurity World Passport Game (available in 12 languages)

● Mobile-first Module: Let’s Have Cyber-Safe Holidays! (available in 10 languages)

● Educational Video: Holiday Scams to Avoid

● Security documents and digital signage options, which include poster-style graphics to help reinforce key cybersecurity lessons from the training modules

● Two newsletter-style assets with tips on secure holiday shopping and travel for end users (available in 10 languages)

 

Two of the three modules and newsletters are available in the following languages: Chinese (Mandarin) – Simplified, English (Great Britain), English (United States), French (Canada), French (Europe), German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish (Latin America).

To access the KnowBe4 2024 Holiday Resource Kit, visit https://info.knowbe4.com/free-holiday-resource-kit

This release follows news that KnowBe4 were named as one of Newsweek’s most loved workplaces in the UK for 2024.

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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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This week, CyberSmart, a leading provider of cyber risk management for small businesses has launched its partnership with e92plus, the UK’s top independent cybersecurity Value Added Distributor (VAD).

e92plus has long been dedicated to protecting its partners and helping them accelerate business growth through its suite of channel-first security and cloud solutions. Indeed, e92plus has helped over 1,200 VARs, MSPs, SIs, CSPs and consultancies across the UK and Ireland.

CyberSmart offers an all-in-one cybersecurity monitoring, optimisation, training and insurance solution, proven to defend against the unexpected. Like e92plus, CyberSmart focuses on delivering its cybersecurity platform through the channel, making this an auspicious partnership.

The partnership will focus on delivering CyberSmart’s cyber risk management platform, including Cyber Essentials certification, products CyberSmart Active Protect and CyberSmart Vulnerability Manager, and cyber insurance to e92plus’ partners throughout the UK and Ireland.

While the partnership is launching primarily in the UK and Ireland, e92plus plans to launch alongside CyberSmart in the Netherlands and other EU markets in the coming years.

The joining of forces between CyberSmart and e92plus is timely. A recent survey from CyberSmart reveals that 65% of MSP customers now expect their provider to manage their cybersecurity infrastructure or their cybersecurity and IT infrastructure. This partnership will help deliver the tools MSPs and VARs need to meet customer demand.

“We’re excited to be working with Cybersmart to bring their platform to our partner community,” explained Mukesh Gupta, CEO at e92plus. “We’re seeing strong demand in the SMB and mid-market sectors for more assistance around cybersecurity strategy, processes and compliance standards, and this addresses that growing marketing need. The requirements are so complex and diverse, and many businesses struggle to have the internal staff and expertise to manage their cybersecurity tools, let alone manage frameworks, address staff training and ensure an organisation has the right risk management and reporting in place. For our VARs and MSPs, this is a perfect way to build their services and consultancy offering without significant investment.”

“We’re delighted to be working with e92plus,” said Jamie Akhtar, CEO at CyberSmart. “Our businesses share a vision of what cybersecurity for SMBs should look like. The demand for solutions that can help smaller businesses get on top of their cybersecurity, compliance and risk management is only growing. And, this partnership addresses the demand, while giving MSPs and VARs a fast and simple route to building up their cybersecurity capabilities. We see this as another important step towards our mission of providing complete cyber confidence to every small business.” 

About CyberSmart

Cybercrime is projected to cost the world $10.5 trillion annually by the end of 2025, and 58% targets small businesses. Meanwhile, the cybersecurity gap between large enterprises with the resources to weather attacks and the SMEs who don’t is widening.

CyberSmart was created to fix this problem. Protecting a business from cyber threats shouldn’t require expert knowledge or deep pockets. So, as well as offering the fastest route to government-grade certification on the market, CyberSmart also provides simple, cost-effective technology, enabling SMEs to protect themselves without cyber expertise. This is paired with free cyber insurance, upon certification. Meanwhile, its Privacy Toolbox offering ensures customers stay on top of their data privacy obligations.

Find out more about CyberSmart at: https://cybersmart.co.uk/

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