Anna Collard is currently SVP of Content Strategy and evangelist for KnowBe4 Africa, where she drives security awareness across the African continent. She has worked in the cyber security field for 18 years, as KnowBe4 Africa’s MD, and before that, as security architect and consultant, where she has assisted organisations across SA, Europe and the US.

Collard founded security content publisher Popcorn Training, now part of KnowBe4, which is a South African company that promotes cyber security awareness by using innovative, story-based techniques and gamification to make complex content simple to understand and easy to remember.

She won the Women in Tech Innovations Throughout Africa 2020 Award for Southern and Central Africa and featured in the Top 50 Women in Cybersecurity – Africa 2020.

Collard holds various security certifications, such as CISSP, CISA, ISO 27001 lead auditor and CIPP/IT, and she used to be a Visa/Mastercard PCI DSS QSA.