This is the ultimate awareness training – whether it’s advertising, identity thieves, con-artists, social conformity, bad relationships, or political promises, we all need to deal with the pressures of persuasion and deception all the time. This seminar covers practical skills to keep yourself from being tricked, fooled, or persuaded into making a choice you should know better not to. We will show how you get tricked and manipulated, the truth behind control, and how to empower yourself by giving others reason to trust you. By learning to think critically and see through the lies, fraud, and artificial influences around you is how you make yourself smarter, safer, and better.

Why can’t we make the right decision all the time? Our sense of trust is broken. Lies, deceit, fraud, and insinuations make up a large part of crime for a reason. We are bad at trust. It’s in our biology. It’s why we sometimes make the wrong friends, date the wrong people, buy the wrong car, and do things that in retrospect were really really dumb. Now consider the fact that trust makes up the majority of security decisions and you see we have a very big problem. This seminar teaches you how we are broken, how to analyze and test trusts despite being broken, how the ISECOM trust metrics work, how they are used to enhance or even replace risk assessments in many organizations, and how you can make better overall security by knowing trust.

This workshop is held by Pete Herzog – founder of ISECOM, author of the OSSTMM and a of course: He’s a veteran TROOPER.