Verify before you trust. Every time.

If you're reading this, chances are you've sat through at least one security awareness training that felt like a legal formality — click through the slides, pass the quiz, forget everything by Friday. And yet somewhere in the back of your mind, you know the real threat isn't going to announce itself with a misspelled subject line. It's going to sound exactly like your CFO. It's going to arrive in a PDF your AI assistant opens without question. It's going to be urgent, convincing, and timed for 4:45 on a Friday afternoon.

That gap — between the training people get and the attacks people actually face — is what Zero-Trust Workforce is built to close.

I designed this course for the people who are actually on the front line of these attacks: the finance coordinator who processes wire transfers, the HR manager who handles direct deposit changes, the executive assistant who fields calls from "the CEO." Not the IT team. Not the security analysts. The everyday employees who make high-stakes decisions under time pressure without a security handbook open in front of them. Everything in this curriculum is built around one question: what would you do if your phone rang right now?

We start with the foundations — because solid habits around phishing recognition, MFA, and incident reporting stop the majority of attacks before they get interesting. Then we go where most trainings won't: into deepfake voice and video verification, FIDO2 passkey and hardware key authentication, indirect prompt injection hidden in your everyday documents, and a three-method resilient verification framework that holds even when your digital systems can't be trusted. And we don't just teach those things. We put you in the scenario and make you do them.

The capstone simulation is the moment it all comes together. You'll receive an audio call from someone who sounds exactly like your CEO, demanding an emergency payroll change with real urgency. Your job is to execute the out-of-band verification protocol you've built across the entire course — calmly, correctly, and without releasing a dollar. The debrief afterward is one of the most valuable moments in the whole program, because you'll see exactly where the protocol held and where pressure almost made you override it.

I believe security awareness training should produce behavior change you can feel — the kind where, six months from now, something arrives in your inbox or on your phone and your gut responds before your brain has finished reading. That's what I built this course to deliver. I'd be glad to have you in it.