Insider and Counter-Espionage Course

Insider and Counter-Espionage Course

Our Insider and Counter-Espionage Course is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to act as your company's espionage expert and protect your organization from espionage threats posed by human sources.

You can enroll in the course on our scheduled dates.

Your company can also book the course, and we will come to your location to conduct it. This requires the company to enroll at least two participants. If the company enrolls three participants, you will receive a fourth participant for free.

Who is the Course for?

The course is aimed at those who wish to enhance their company's security against espionage threats from human sources. It is ideal for security officers, CISOs, managers, and HR personnel. No specific prerequisites are required to participate in the course.

Course Objectives

• You will learn how to create espionage awareness briefings to train your employees on protecting themselves against espionage in their daily work, on social media, and while traveling.

• You will learn methods to protect your company from insiders and industrial espionage.

• You will be trained to serve as your company's espionage expert.

• You will gain skills to identify and handle espionage threats, as well as investigate suspicious incidents within your organization.

Course Content

• Implementing espionage security measures in your company and integrating them with physical security and cybersecurity.

• Insight into the methods used by source handlers to recruit insiders and the motivation factors involved.

• Understanding the creative and devious strategies employed by source handlers in managing insiders within companies, and how they exploit weaknesses in corporate security culture.

• Prevent employees from finding themselves in compromising situations where they could be blackmailed into disclosing confidential information.

• Insight into how agents use elicitation to extract information from employees—without them realizing it!

• Protecting employees' intellectual capital from foreign actors seeking to acquire your knowledge.

• Training in building strong rapport with your employees so that they trust you and feel comfortable reporting suspicious incidents.

• Identification and management of insiders within your company, as well as methods to prevent insider incidents from occurring.

• Learn to protect your company from espionage threats, as well as to safeguard your employees from espionage on social media and while traveling.

• Preparation of an espionage awareness briefing and a travel briefing specifically designed for your company to enhance employee threat awareness, understanding of espionage methods, and security consciousness.

• Effective interview techniques for gathering details from employees who come forward with information about suspicious incidents.

• Investigating suspicious incidents and reporting to management and to your national police intelligence service.

• Development of the necessary mindset to function as the responsible espionage expert in your company.

Instructor

Torben Kabel, former intelligence soldier with 12 years of experience in human intelligence and counterintelligence, including deployment as a Human Intelligence Agent Handler in Afghanistan and three deployments to Iraq, first as Deputy Commander of Counterintelligence and then twice as Commander of Counterintelligence.

Teaching Method

The course consists of classroom teaching combined with interactive discussions and group work.

Practical Information

• Price per participant: 5,258 EUR excluding VAT.

• The price for our advertised courses includes meals and personalized telephone consultation after the course to assist with the implementation of security measures in your company.

• The course is conducted for 2-8 participants at a time.

• The price for a course held at your location does not include meals. Personalized telephone consultation after the course to assist with the implementation of security measures in your company is included in the price.

• If your company gathers 2-8 participants, the course can be held at a location near you.

• Send an email to contact@inside-risk-consulting.com with your name, company, position, and phone number.

• Duration: Four days.

  • First day: 10:00 AM - 5:24 PM

  • Second day: 8:00 AM - 3:24 PM

  • Third day: 8:00 AM - 3:24 PM

  • Fourth day: 8:00 AM - 3:24 PM

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at +45 51 91 21 94. We look forward to teaching you all the facets of the counter-espionage art in the course.

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