Signpost Six offers the possibility of providing training and workshops in-house or off site for a smaller group of participants. We guarantee an interactive and energizing experience with our experts while focusing on insider risk learning and brainstorming objectives tailored to your organisation. Depending on your organisation’s specific needs, our training can range from ½ day workshops to three-day trainings. Some of our key training themes include: What happens when individuals conduct malicious acts inside organisations? What processes do they go through and what interventions can be taken from a human perspective? We will look into the mind of an ‘insider’ and provide insights into comprehensive programmes to address insider risk in organisations. We will run the workshop participants through the critical pathway methodology (Shaw and Sellers) by using a case study relevant to the audience. Depending on the size of the group of participants, we will let them read the case and run through the steps of the pathway. Learning objectives: The exercise is to recognise the steps of the pathway for the particular case. How did this particular person derail? What could have been done and should have been done to mitigate the growing risk? We will also touch on what measures your organisation has available to manage such risks proactively. How can you be vulnerable and susceptible to manipulations from others (through ‘social engineering’)? Learning objectives: Functional and dysfunctional desensitisation and psychological risk awareness: Understanding malicious actors in your surroundings: “Red flags” exercise: Individuals who ‘derail’ within organisations show common characteristics and signals which are often completely overlooked. This workshop will run through a case study in which we will share a storyline of an individual in a diplomatic environment up to leaking sensitive information. Interviewing is contiguous, and delegates will appreciate the skill of conducting interviews with a clear purpose, ‘open-mindedly’, and with an investigative mindset; the primary objective being to secure as detailed, reliable, and accurate an account as possible whilst avoiding confirmation bias, and utilising forensically appropriate questioning styles. Learning objectives: A presentation, workshop or briefing format to employees in your industry to counter China’s commercial espionage threat. The briefing sensitises staff to the magnitude of the threat based on case studies, identifying collection tactics, targeted technologies and trade secrets, and overall case statistics. This programme is successful at businesses and universities because hundreds of cases support the analysis. This one-day workshop is tailored to your industry and circumstances. It is designed to give people the tools they need – including threat indicators, collection priorities, tradecraft, etc. – to counter the insider threat posed (specifically) by China. A component of this training is cultural awareness of the business environment (Guanxi, face, collectivism, reciprocity, etc.). Enough insider risk teams have trouble communicating risks to senior leadership that it became necessary to inject data and analysis into the discussions. This is an issue of subject matter expertise, data, and bespoke analysis. C-Suite discussions include industry-specific examples of insider threat, quantifying loss of research investment and market share.
The Critical Pathway to Insider Risk
Personal vulnerability assessment
Counter- social engineering and situational awareness training
Investigative interviewing bootcamp
Nation-state espionage: threats and solutions
Training workshop for insider threat / cybersecurity staff
C-Suite discussions