NEWS
KnowBe4 expands into South Africa
by acquiring Popcorn Training
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nowBe4, the world’s largest security
awareness training and simulated
phishing platform, has announced the
acquisition of Popcorn Training, a security
company based in Johannesburg and Cape
Town. The acquisition will add 52 new
training modules to the KnowBe4 library.
Popcorn will operate as an independent
subsidiary of KnowBe4.
Stu Sjouwerman, CEO of KnowBe4, said: “We
are delighted to have a new creative content
team on board and are very enthused about
expanding our footprint into South Africa.
“Popcorn’s appearance in the 2016 Gartner
Magic Quadrant as a visionary highlighted
their drive to create unique content and we
are happy to bring these additional modules
to our customers.”
Popcorn’s CEO, Anna Collard, added: “We
are excited about becoming part of the
KnowBe4 family for a number of reasons.
Firstly, it will allow us to expand our offering
and integrate with KnowBe4’s best of breed
phishing and training solutions. Secondly,
by becoming KnowBe4’s representative
for the African region, we look forward to
building content and solutions that are
applicable to the African context. Thirdly, the
transaction enables us to continue to grow
and to stay focused on what we love doing,
which is creating high-quality cybersecurity
awareness content.”
KnowBe4 has
acquired security
company PopCorn
Training
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Seraphere launched at 2018
Cloud Conference
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he first South African white label carrier-
agnostic cloud PBX platform was launched
at the 2018 Cloud Conference. Seraphere is a
locally developed business telephone platform
for resellers that service businesses of all sizes.
It boasts a full extensive range of features
and customers have freedom to choose any
broadband provider.
Euphoria CEO George Golding says Seraphere
will reduce all complexity, making migration
to the cloud a simple experience. “Platform
and infrastructure work is already done,”
said Golding. “We are the AWS’s for Cloud
PBX solutions – this means no massive
infrastructure costs and no specialists required
to manage and maintain the system.”
The Seraphere platform is a trusted SaaS
PBX partner, providing a solution exclusively
via traditional distribution channels. It
is SIP compliant, enabling an open PBX
environment for service providers.
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INTELLIGENTCIO
Seraphere, a South
African white label
carrier-agnostic cloud
PBX platform, was
launched at the 2018
Cloud Conference
Golding says Seraphere is built on the
backbone of the popular and tested
Euphoria PBX platform. “It is simple to set
up, access and deploy. We plan to launch
Seraphere into the global markets later this
year, first in the UK. This is our product built
for resellers; there are good margins. We’ve
designed this product specifically for them;
they can rebrand the product and bill their
own minutes. More importantly, they can
package it the way they like and they get the
lion’s share of the income.”
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