KnowBe4’s Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training

Nomination Highlights

KnowBe4 offers the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform. Kevin Mitnick Security Awareness Training specializes in making sure that employees manage the ongoing problem of social engineering to help better protect organizations against threats like phishing and ransomware. According to our recent Benchmarking Report, the average Phish-prone percentage goes down significantly after 90 days of computer-based training and simulated phishing testing. In fact, the average Phish-prone percentage was cut by more than half, as it went down from 37.9 percent to 14.1 percent. And after one year of testing and simulated phishing, it drops down to just two percent. Across all industries, there’s an 87 percent improvement rate from baseline testing to 12 months of training and testing.

KnowBe4 has used educational technology applied science to build a comprehensive way to manage the ongoing problem of social engineering that can simulate the bad guys and provide online training interventions that can help organizations with this problem. One example of a focus group comment: I have a master’s degree in instructional technology and have evaluated content for a number of years. We are also in the education business. This is the best stuff I have ever seen. Very modern, great interactives, and incorporates all the science of learning.