Weapons grade deception has been democratized. Time to level-up your defenses.
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?
What you’ll learn
A bootcamp for awareness & cognitive warfare. Craft deepfakes, deconstruct deception, and sharpen your instincts against digital mind games.
Deconstruct scenarios into attacker mindset, goals, and playbook (targeting → narrative → asset prep → channel → amplification → payoff)
Dive deep into the theory and practical use of deceptive psychology, dark persuasion, and influence techniques, mis-perception, and more
Assemble your working attacker-POV toolkit and repeatable creation/detection workflows.
Build, spot, and analyze fakes with safe, hands-on workflows.
Build sophisticated multi-stage deepfake attacks, leveraging multiple deceptive artifacts, post-production techniques, and more.
Learn to dissect and create narrative/story-driven attacks. Break deepfakes down into hook, proof, artifact(s), CTA, & emotional cues.
Anticipate and map target mindsets, cognitive exploit paths, media harvesting / creation, narrative distribution channels, and more.
Think ethically about the tools, technology, process, and deepfake types that may be used in simulations and awareness scenarios
Build an ethics-first matrix to route scenarios (Show/Tell/Play vs Simulate/Test)
Who this course is for
Security pros seeking guided hands-on experience investigating and crafting deepfakes, narrative manipulation, & 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.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Perry Carpenter & Cameron Malin in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
5 live sessions • 9 lessons • 5 projects
Week 1
Jan
26
Session 1: Foundations of Deception and Deepfakes
Mon 1/269:00 PM—11:00 PM (UTC)Jan
27
Session 2: Fundamentals of Misperception: How we are Deceived
Tue 1/279:00 PM—11:00 PM (UTC)Jan
28
Session 3: Crafting Deepfake and Narrative Attacks
Wed 1/289:00 PM—11:00 PM (UTC)Jan
29
Session 4: Weapons of Mass Influence: Deepfake Persuasion & Manipulation
Thu 1/299:00 PM—11:00 PM (UTC)Jan
30
Session 5: Awareness Simulations, Ethics, and Defensive Tactics
Fri 1/309:00 PM—11:00 PM (UTC)
Session 1: Foundations of Deception and Deepfakes
Session 2: Fundamentals of Misperception: How we are Deceived
Session 3: Crafting Deepfake and Narrative Attacks
Session 4: Weapons of Mass Influence: Deepfake Persuasion & Manipulation
Session 5: Awareness Simulations, Ethics, and Defensive Tactics
Free lesson
Deepfake Ops Primer: Attacks, Tools, & Defenses in 30
Know the “why”
What attackers want and why the tactics work.
Understand the tools, methods, & psychology
How modern deepfake ops actually work (creation stack, attack workflows, persuasion levers)
Outthink the fake
Spot framing tricks and behavioral tells, reframe the message, verify out-of-band, and choose the next best action.
Schedule
Live sessions
10 hrs / week
Expect and intense (and fun) 2 hours of live instruction per day for 5 days.
Mon, Jan 26
9:00 PM—11:00 PM (UTC)
Tue, Jan 27
9:00 PM—11:00 PM (UTC)
Wed, Jan 28
9:00 PM—11:00 PM (UTC)
Projects
2-6 hrs / week
Students may also wish to make sure they've allocated time to experiment with tools and building deepfakes outside of class hours. This is a collaborative environment -- "show and tell" is highly encouraged.
Success stories
- Perry has his finger on the pulse of security awareness culture and knows how to bring it to life. His real-world expert advice focuses on what is actionable and most essential for protecting your organization right now.
Rachel Tobac
CEO of SocialProof Security and Friendly Hacker - In my time advising companies how to become more resilient to social engineering, I've always touted the importance of building a strong security culture. Perry Carpenter is one of the world's foremost experts in how to do just that. Security leaders and business executives would be wise to listen to his advice and implement his suggestions.
Kevin Mitnick
Principal, Mitnick Security - Perry's forgotten more on human element security than the rest of us will even know! Perry understands how our brains work, and how that affects our propensity to be both duped by bad guys and engaged by security awareness content. He's one of my go-to people in the field.
Lisa Plaggemier
Executive Director, National Cybersecurity Alliance - Perry Carpenter is a global leader in cybersecurity and his book FAIK should be a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how artificial intelligence is impacting our lives
FC (Freakyclown)
Ethical Hacker, author of How I Rob Banks (and other such places) - Too frequently those of us in security think technology first without truly understanding the first priority issue of organizational culture. Culture is integral to organizational success and initiatives. Perry Carpenter’s work in this space is truly second to none.
Matt Stamper
Co-Author of the CISO Desk Reference Guide (Vols 1 & 2) CISO & Executive Advisor - If you want to understand emerging threats, you want to hear what Perry has to say.
Ted Harrington
#1 bestselling author, leader of hackers, co-founder of IoT Village
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