Personal Digital Security Training

(Alleen beschikbaar in het Engels)

Current-day digital threat to high-profile individuals, and how to counter it

Why should you attend?

• Understand today's digital risks to your devices and data;
• Gain insight into adversary capabilities and targeting methods;
• Learn how to organize personal security management;
• Learn basic security measures like:
  • Using anonymous mail services
  • Setting up alias/sock puppet accounts
  • Using VPN services
  • Encrypting files and storage devices
  • Using live OS environments
  • Alternative forms of messaging

Who should attend?

Everyone will benefit from better risk awareness and more secure digital behavior, but this training is vital for people with a higher risk profile, such as:

• Executives;
• Journalists and (private) investigators;
• Lawyers, politicians, activists;
• Law enforcement and national security government employees.
• Employees of NGOs and disaster relief.

Required skills & Expertise

This course is intended for people already using digital devices and the internet, both for personal and professional purposes, who want to learn what threats they are facing and how to counter them. No further knowledge is required, just the will to learn and to change some of your routine behavior if necessary.

A Windows or Linux-based laptop and a smartphone are required for the practical exercises during the training.

Program

The Personal Digital Security Training can be fully personalized to your needs and requirements. Together with our trainers, we determine which topics are relevant for you and your employees based on the threats in your field of expertise. The training can vary from 1 to 3 days, depending on the number of topics.

A wide range of topics, including those listed below, can be covered.

Topics you can learn:

• Risks of your devices
• Risks from connections and communications
• Risks of social media
• Risks from applications and accounts
• Adversary capabilities
• Organizing personal digital security
• Using Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)

Topics you can learn how to do:

• Using a Live OS
• Using Anonymous Email
• Using Virtual Private Networks
• File / disk encryption
• Secure Messaging with Signal, Zello, Modulo, and Greenalp
• Bluetooth P2P
• Using personas
  
• Using password managers

Live exercise

There is also the possibility to develop, together with our trainers, a fully personalized live exercise specific to your field of expertise. During these live exercises, training participants practice what they have learned in a simulated environment tailored to your security needs. Elements of such a live exercise may include:

• Communicating while evading an active eavesdropper;
• Establishing a secure communication center in contested areas.

Interested?

If you are interested in this interactive and customizable training, either as an in-company or an external event, please let us know via the form below, by telephone at +31 (0) 88 888 31 00, or by email at info@secura.com.