Module 01
Why awareness training fails
The gap between knowing the rules and behaving correctly under pressure.
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DSE certification
Defensive Social Engineering
A certification for the people responsible for reducing human-layer risk.
Building an organisation that resists manipulation.
Who it is for
Security awareness leads, risk and compliance teams, HR and operations managers, and SOC staff who handle vishing reports.
Modules
At a glance
| Code | DSE |
| Format | Instructor-led, scenario-driven |
| Assessment | Practical exercise and written report |
| Delivery | Private cohort or scheduled open cohort |
| Prerequisite | None, though security experience helps |
Module 02
Reading a pretext
The structural tells of a manipulation attempt, and why urgency and authority are used so consistently.
Module 03
Process over vigilance
Designing verification workflows that do not depend on an individual noticing something at the right moment.
Module 04
Measuring susceptibility
Baselines, campaign design and reporting that shows change over time rather than a single pass rate.
Module 05
Response playbooks
What a person should do the moment they think they have been manipulated, and how the organisation handles it without blame.
Authorisation is part of the curriculum. These techniques are legal only when applied with written permission against systems and people you are authorised to test. Every module that covers technique also covers the boundary — scope, consent, data handling and the point at which the work would become unlawful. We do not teach techniques for use outside an authorised engagement.
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Tell us how many participants and whether you want an open or private cohort. We will send dates and the full syllabus.