Perception Lab

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A bootcamp for awareness & cognitive warfare. Craft deepfakes, deconstruct deception, and sharpen your instincts against digital mind games.

Cyber Deception & Human Risk Researcher

Perry Carpenter

Lifelong fascination with deception, technology, behavior, & the human element.

Deception Expert, Ex-FBI Cyber Profiler

Cameron Malin

Relentless focus on exposing how adversaries exploit both tech & the human mind.

Deepfake Ops: Learn. Evolve. Defend.

Cybersecurity Awareness Analyst

VP of Sexual Misconduct Risk Management

Security Principal Norway

Founder

Holistic Security Strategist

PhD candidate 

Founder & Fraud Prevention Consultant

Raise awareness, drive secure behaviors, build culture, and reduce human risk in your organization (Live Lessons, Q&A, and Guest Lectures)

Jessica Barker, MBE, Ph.D.

Awareness to Action -- A Mastermind for Human-Centric Cybersecurity Leaders

Cybersecurity Content Creator

Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity

Information Security Manager

Two of the world's most respected cybersecurity awareness, behavior, &amp; culture, along with a live cohort of your peers are on your side Join a intimate group of passionate security awareness professionals for an impactful no-BS masterminding experience. This is your chance to join a one-of-a-kind community.&nbsp;Cohort members will receive and be able to participate in: 👉 Weekly Live Sessions: Engage in live video discussions to dissect real-world awareness challenges, exchange tried-and-true tactics, and foster mutual accountability. 👉 Insights and Advice from Jessica &amp; Perry: Benefit from our unique perspectives and experience. With diverse experiences from startups to Fortune 100 companies and government agencies, we're eager to share insights and learn from you! 👉 Accountability: You’ll have all of us encouraging you to slay your goals, maintain focus, uplevel your program. 👉 Networking: Connect with fellow awareness enthusiasts. Share experiences, exchange ideas, and support each other’s success. 👉 Safe Space for Discussion: A judgment-free zone to unpack complex scenarios and collaboratively devise solutions. 👉 Office Hours with Perry &amp; Jessica: Personalized clinic time with us to tackle your unique challenges and queries – high-level coaching tailored for you.

🚀 Exclusive Mastermind Experience 🚀  

Course syllabus

Mondays: This is our main session each week. We'll cover the central topic and related content. We'll also feature our guest speakers and have group discussion and sharing. Fridays: Office Hours for Q&amp;A, problem solving, collaboration, and additional group sharing.

Mondays & Fridays

We're all set to begin on June 3. Can you feel the excitement?

Cohort kickoff: June 3

Each week, we'll toss out a challenge. It could be to design ways to implement an idea for the topic(s) we covered, it could be a community discussion topic, or a challenge to learn a new skill or tool.These are optional, but fundamental to your personal growth.

Weekly Challenges and Community Interaction

Course schedule

Long-time awareness leaders who know there is always more to learn, and value the power of community.

New and mid-level program leaders ready to learn from from experts, specialists, and peers.

Career switchers looking to transition into security awareness from fields like Marketing, Psychology, or dozens of other professions

Who this course is for

What you’ll get out of this course

Awareness. Behavior. Culture. Human Risk Management. Let's face it, all of these are just buzzwords attempting to define our purpose, but with limited success. This is about unlocking expert &amp; peer-proven strategies to win hearts &amp; minds, drive secure behaviors, &amp; reduce risk.

Go beyond the buzzwords & move from theory to reality

Benefit from support that celebrates your achievements, challenges to push you out of your comfort zone, and coaching to help guide your strategic and tactical decisions. This is a one-of-a-kind group that will help take you and your program to the next level.

Embrace a trifecta of strategies designed to support your growth: Cheerleading, Challenging, and Coaching

Equip yourself with the skills to successfully obtain and maintain leadership and organizational buy-in. Learn to navigate the intricate dynamics of persuading stakeholders and securing their continued support.

Learn to navigate the complexities of obtaining and maintaining leadership and organizational buy-in

Security awareness programs can only be successful when they truly value those with whom they are communicating. Learn to develop program elements that will make your audience feel understood and valued.

Gain a roadmap to empathy, inclusion, and accessibility

Tools aren't everything. And security teams have been known to misuse strategies like phishing when they don't begin with correct end goals in mind. Learn how to explore the dark side while maintaining empathy, respect, and in ways that can build relationships with employees.

Explore the technical side: Harness AI, OSINT, phishing, and other tech-based techniques for good

Black Hat

Gartner

KnowBe4

National Cybersecurity Alliance

SecureWorld

The International Spy Museum

O'Reilly Media

A training event for red teamers, security awareness pros, IT leaders, and anyone who wants to weaponize creativity, outmaneuver deception, and understand the cognitive battlefield.🚀 Elite Access. Tactical Insight. No fluff. 🚀This is your chance to move past theory, speculation, and wondering where to start.Join a small, focused cohort for an advanced, hands-on masterclass in synthetic media, disinformation, deception tradecraft, and cognitive defense led by two of the world’s foremost experts in digital deception, human risk, behavioral profiling, and narrative warfare.This class is all about threat simulation, narrative dissection, and mind-sharpening insight... with direct access to the people who help shape the field.👉 Exclusive Live Training High-impact teardowns of real deepfake threats, adversary tactics, and behavioral exploits.👉 Direct Access to the Instructors Work with Perry and Cameron. Bring your challenges. Get actionable feedback.👉 Hands-On Simulation Work Create, analyze, and reverse-engineer deepfakes. Run narrative ops. Turn attacker insight into defense.This is your chance to level up with the leaders defining the future of deception defense. Are you ready?

Weapons grade deception has been democratized. Time to level-up your defenses.

Understand the deepfake threat landscape, attacker mindsets, goals, & playbook

Unlock the secrets to building truly realistic audio, image, and video deepfakes

Learn how deepfake campaigns frame stories to land and spread

Learn to design safe simulations that teach without causing harm

Security pros seeking guided hands-on experience investigating and crafting deepfakes, narrative manipulation, &amp; adversarial simulations.

Red teamers, awareness leaders, and defenders ready to level up their understanding of cognitive threats and deception tradecraft.

Anyone on the front lines of human risk who needs to think like an attacker to build smarter, stronger cognitive and behavioral defenses.

Deepfake Ops: Into the Darkness (Mindsets, Tools, & Defense)

Cybersecurity, Human Risk, & Deepfake Researcher

Behavioral Profiler, former FBI, Online Influence & Deception Expert

What attackers want and why the tactics work.

Dive into the Psychology

Master how modern deepfake ops actually work (creation, attack workflows, and more)

Understand the tools, methods, and distribution systems

Learn to see through the eyes of the attacker and build cognitive defenses

Outthink the fake

Deepfake Ops Primer: Attacks, Tools, & Defenses in 30

Behavioral Profiler, former FBI, Online Influence & Deception
Expert

Know the “why”

How modern deepfake ops actually work (creation stack, attack workflows, persuasion levers)

Understand the tools, methods, & psychology

Spot framing tricks and behavioral tells, reframe the message, verify out-of-band, and choose the next best action.

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Awareness to Action -- A Mastermind for Human-Centric Cybersecurity Leaders

Deepfake Ops: Learn. Evolve. Defend.

Lightning Lessons

Deepfake Ops: Into the Darkness (Mindsets, Tools, & Defense)

Deepfake Ops Primer: Attacks, Tools, & Defenses in 30