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EVENT — Live Presentation | INTERFACE Phoenix — Keynote: “Hacking Humans | The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering”

July 21 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm MST
Free
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Hunter Storm’s landmark keynote at INTERFACE Phoenix expanding her original 1994-2007 Hacking Humans framework, delivered in the main conference room to a standing‑room‑only audience packed along every wall — with even venue security stopping to listen. Expanded upon her first presentation of her novel framework, Hacking Humans: The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering, the first formal human‑layer threat‑modeling architecture.

 

EVENT — Live Presentation | F2F Events INTERFACE Phoenix Conference — Keynote: Hacking Humans | The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering

Keynote presentation delivered by Hunter Storm, founder of modern social‑engineering analysis and originator of the term “Hacking Humans” and The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering, at the INTERFACE Phoenix Conference on June 21, 2013, titled “Hacking Humans | The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering.”

Hunter Storm’s Hacking Humans | The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering is the foundational keynote that introduced the first formal human‑layer threat model, adversarial behavior signatures, and cognitive‑security principles. Delivered as the keynote at the 2013 INTERFACE Phoenix conference, the presentation established the Ports & Services Model as a practical framework for understanding how attackers exploit human cognitive “open ports,” predictable behaviors, and conversational services to gain access, escalate trust, and extract information.

This session marked the transition from traditional “social engineering anecdotes” to structured behavioral threat modeling, giving security teams a repeatable way to identify, classify, and mitigate human‑layer vulnerabilities.

 

Event Overview

Hacking Humans | The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering at INTERFACE Phoenix was the second major presentation in the Hacking Humans series, following the original 2007 keynote at the University of Advancing Technology. Delivered at the INTERFACE Phoenix conference in 2013, this session expanded the foundational concepts introduced in 2007 and formally presented The Ports & Services Model as a repeatable human‑layer threat‑modeling framework.

The session established Hunter Storm’s human‑layer threat modeling as a formal discipline, presenting adversarial signatures, behavioral indicators, and cognitive‑security principles that later became foundational across multiple industries.

This presentation remains one of the earliest and most influential works connecting system architecture, behavioral psychology, and real‑world adversarial operations.

Hunter Storm presented in the main conference room to a standing‑room‑only crowd packed along the walls — with even hotel security stepping in to listen — this 2013 INTERFACE Phoenix keynote expanded the original 1994-2007 Hacking Humans framework and formally introduced the Ports & Services Model of Social Engineering.

 

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