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KnowBe4 Phish Alert for Google Chrome

KnowBe4, the company we are using for Security Awareness Training, has a Google Chrome add-on that lets you report suspicious e-mails to our technology department and to them. This article shows you how to install and use the add-on.

For this extension to work properly, you must be signed into both your @wcs.k12.va.us e-mail account and into Google Chrome itself. An additional advantage of being signed into Chrome is that your bookmarks, history, and extensions will also be synced. Any version of Chrome you sign into will get the same extensions and bookmarks.

Sign In to Google Chrome

After you launch Chrome and sign into Gmail, follow these steps to sign into Chrome and start syncing:

  1. Click the icon at the top right of Chrome that looks like a person's head and shoulders.
  2. If you are signed into Chrome already, but not syncing, click the button that says "Turn On Sync" and skip to step 4.
  3. Click the Sign Into Chrome button that comes up.
  4. If prompted, enter your e-mail login and password.
  5. A window will come up warning you that you are about to start syncing your Chrome information with your @wcs.k12.va.us e-mail account. Click the button that says Link Data.
  6. Another window will come up confirming you want to start syncing, click the Turn On button.

Setup KnowBe4 Extension

We have the KnowBe4 extension for Chrome setup to force install when you sign into Chrome using your @wcs.k12.va.us account. You just have to do a couple of things to allow it to work properly:

  1. Soon after signing into Chrome and setting up Sync, you'll get a window that asks you to choose an account to use with KnowBe4 Phish Alert. Click on your @wcs.k12.va.us account.
  2. You'll then get a window asking if it is OK for KnowBe4 Phish Alert to access certain parts of your Email profile, click Allow.
chrome/phishalert.1551449679.txt.gz · Last modified: 2019/03/01 09:14 by jlester