Answers to common questions about KnowBe4 security awareness training, simulated phishing, deployment, and how Optrics helps run and support the platform.
A fake Malwarebytes subscription renewal for $429.99 just appeared in your team's shared calendar. Nobody clicked a link. Nobody opened an attachment. The invoice sits between Tuesday's budget review and Wednesday's project sync, complete with a toll-free number and a three-year renewal period nobody authorized. This is calendar invite phishing. Scammers exploit auto-add settings in […]
The Exposure Window Is Already Open Forty percent of employees have shared sensitive information with large language models. Most did so without permission, and many organizations discovered this only after reviewing access logs months later. Security teams built governance for humans but deployed AI agents without onboarding, access controls, or even an inventory. By the […]
Still Think You Can Patch Your Way Out of 100,000 Zero-Days This Year? Last year saw roughly 48,000 CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures). This year, projections point to over 100,000. Most will be zero-days, meaning exploits arrive before patches exist. The gap between discovery and remediation keeps shrinking while the volume keeps climbing. Your patch […]
Researchers testing McKinsey's AI platform discovered something unnerving. Prompts defining agent behavior sat in the same database as user content. A single SQL command could rewrite the rules governing what the AI could access. No privilege escalation needed. No credential theft. Just a query that treated security guardrails like editable configuration. The breach exposed millions […]
Still Training Your Team to Look for Typos in Phishing Emails? AI writes flawless emails now. Your team is clicking on urgent requests that sound perfectly professional because the pressure to act fast overrides every red flag they've been taught to notice. Recent polling shows 34% of workers identify pressure to act quickly as the […]
Ever wonder why your best employees click phish links on Fridays? Most teams default to mental shortcuts by end of week because constant notifications and digital clutter exhaust their decision-making capacity. Attackers time urgency-based phishing for exactly those moments when your brain stops analyzing and just clicks to clear the queue. This pattern reveals a […]
Still Training Employees to Spot Email Phishing While Attackers Moved to SMS? Shipping notification. Track your package. Click here to confirm delivery. Your employees receive these texts on personal phones where no enterprise security watches inbound messages. One tap opens a credential harvesting page optimized for mobile browsers. By the time anyone reports it, attackers […]
When SIEM Alerts Miss the Admin Who Broke AD Your SIEM caught the breach but can't tell you which admin broke what. Security teams face this regularly when alerts surface without the admin context needed to trace root cause. This gap exists because SIEMs ingest incident data, not the granular Active Directory changes that preceded […]
Still giving everyone admin rights to avoid support tickets? That usually happens because defining granular permissions takes longer than just checking the admin box. But the first time someone deletes a production subnet or breaks DNS for half your zones, that shortcut stops feeling efficient. Role-based access control eliminates the binary choice between full access […]
