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Event: Keynote Speaker | Hacking Humans | The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering

July 21 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm MST

A landmark keynote expanding the original 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. Introduced the Ports & Services Model and the first formal human‑layer threat‑modeling architecture.

 

Event Overview

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 at the 2013 INTERFACE Conference in Phoenix, AZ, 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 the INTERFACE Conference was the second major presentation in the Hacking Humans series, following the original 2007 keynote at the University of Advancing Technology. Delivered at the 2013 INTERFACE Conference in Phoenix, AZ, 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.

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 keynote expanded the original 2007 Hacking Humans framework and formally introduced the Ports & Services Model of Social Engineering.

 

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