Fast Company first-person account by a business owner describing why hiring Kevin Mitnick to test their company’s security was worthwhile. Read more →

Press release announcing Kevin Mitnick’s partnership with security awareness training company KnowBe4, where he later served as Chief Hacking Officer. Read more →

Patrick Gray profiles longtime friends and business partners Alex Kasper and Kevin Mitnick, contrasting Kasper’s path from teenage phone hacking into video-game production with Mitnick’s arrest, imprisonment, and later career as an author and security consultant, tracing how their shared history led to founding Defensive Thinking. Read more →

At a social engineering prevention workshop in Sydney this week, Mitnick and business partner Alex Kasperavicius shared some of the tactics used by social engineers to bypass a company’s technical security by exploiting employees’ psychological vulnerabilities. Read more →

Background information about Defensive Thinking and its security training programs. Read more →

A profile of Kevin Mitnick’s transition from hacker to security educator, naming Intense School Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. as the training center partnering with Mitnick and Alex Kasper’s Defensive Thinking to deliver their social-engineering course to clients including the U.S. Air Force, the Marines, and mortgage companies. Read more →

Internal CSEPS course workbook module on developing a pretext and the psychological principles of influence, persuasion, and compliance. Read more →

Internal CSEPS course workbook module covering research, intelligence gathering, and elicitation techniques used to plan a social-engineering attack. Read more →

Internal CSEPS course workbook module introducing the fundamentals of social engineering and the attacker’s research/trust/exploit cycle. Read more →

Certified Social Engineering Prevention Specialist: corporate security-awareness training co-developed with Kevin Mitnick Read more →