Re: KnowBe4 Security & Awareness Training Feedback

["Barton, Robert W." <bartonrt () LEWISU EDU>]

Does EDUCAUSE have a repository of member created content?  That is something I was trying to start regionally, but it 
has been slow going.

Robert W. Barton
Executive Director of Information Security and Policy
Lewis University
One University Parkway
Romeoville, IL  60446-2200
815-836-5663

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> On Behalf Of Frank Barton
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2019 8:16 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] KnowBe4 Security & Awareness Training Feedback

Jason, I would say that KnowBe4Suffers from the same industry problem - they do try to make the content 
industry-agnostic (and to be honest, while I'm not on the content side, I would like to see the ability for some 
customization to make things more "us")

As to the "bending the truth", I'm not sure I would go that far. There are some nuances that I think are missed, or 
things that might be a bit 'over-generalized' (which leads to the industry-agnostification). Getting the balance right 
between "good - engaging content" and "technical precision" in a field that is very rapidly changing can be very 
difficult. on the whole, I think KnowBe4 gets the balance just about right, and tries to make their content accessible 
to everyone, no matter the technical skill level

We just pushed out our annual Security Awareness Training, and I would say that the content was just about "high 
average" with a focus on social engineering.

Education is somewhat of an 'odd duck' when it comes to some of the ITSEC problems that the industry sees. I wonder if 
maybe EDUCause should work on creating either training content, or (as in a Logical OR) a training platform to provide 
and track training that can be focused to the challenges that we face in Higher Ed (Lets face it... how many other 
businesses need to worry about SmartTVs, XBoxen, and the whole alphabet soup of compliance every day in addition to 
having their customers living on site?)



On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 8:57 AM Jason Fried <friedj () sunysuffolk edu<mailto:friedj () sunysuffolk edu>> wrote:
Good morning,

Common feedback – especially from faculty – for our current product is that this is obviously not built for higher ed, 
but is more industry-agnostic. Would those who have or will responded about KnowBe4 provide their thoughts on that, 
along with that ‘bending of the truth’? Many thanks…

Regards,

Jay
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Jason Fried
Information Security Officer
Information Technology Services
Suffolk County Community College
O: 631.451.4291 / M: 631.897.6064
@SuffolkITS

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU<mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV 
EDUCAUSE EDU>> On Behalf Of Frank Barton
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2019 8:50 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU<mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] KnowBe4 Security & Awareness Training Feedback

Joshua,
 Another "Hello from up in Maine" We are using KnowBe4 for both their Phishing and user education. We have bee happy 
with it, both from an overall content perspective as well as from a management perspective.

I will echo what Chad said. sometimes there are some "degrees" of truth that might be lost, but overall I have been 
happy with the content.

Frank

On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 6:30 AM Chad Tracy <ctracy () bates edu<mailto:ctracy () bates edu>> wrote:
Joshua,

Hello from up in Maine. Nice to see the weather finally getting better up here. I PoC'd KnowBe4 a couple years back... 
in short, it came down to price. I had used Knowbe4 for our Phishing platform, which I loved... very easy to use and 
their support was very easy to work with and they were always immediately available. The ISAT was very well presented 
but I had issues with the content - meaning that I took a few of the training modules and completed the quizzes for 
each module and I actually got many of them wrong... What I know to be true with regard to security and what they know 
to be true... well, we have varying truths...lol. I felt that if I had heartburn over the content than I was sure to 
have a ton of feedback from the community.

For what it's worth, I know of one other institution that is moving away from Knowbe4 and back to SANS STH.

**You heading to the Educause Security Conference this year?

Best,

Chad

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 4:19 PM Gomez, Joshua <J.Gomez () snhu edu<mailto:J.Gomez () snhu edu>> wrote:
Hey There,

Are any other Universities currently a customer of KnowBe4?  We are currently considering them for our ISAT content 
provider but wanted to get feedback from an actual customer in Higher Ed. If you feel more comfortable messaging me 
directly, I can be reached at j.gomez () snhu edu<mailto:j.gomez () snhu edu>.

Thanks In advance!


Joshua Gomez | Consultant, Information Security
Information Technology Solutions

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Chad Tracy
Director of Information Security, Policy and Compliance
Bates College
207 786-6491


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Frank Barton, MBA
Security+, ACMT, MCP
IT Systems Administrator
Husson University


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Frank Barton, MBA
Security+, ACMT, MCP
IT Systems Administrator
Husson University

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