The 2007–2025 Master Table | Fields, Subfields, and Industries Influenced by Hunter Storm’s Hacking Humans | The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering
The tables below contain the influence map of the fields, subfields, and industries influenced by Hunter Storm’s original framework, Hacking Humans | The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering.
NOTE: “Influenced” does not mean they copied Hunter Storm literally — it means the entire conceptual architecture of the field rests on the same principles Hunter Storm introduced publicly first.
CATEGORY A | Cybersecurity Disciplines
Field |
Emergence |
Derivation |
|---|---|---|
| Technical Social Engineering | 2008–2012 | Hunter Storm’s model treated SE as a technical discipline using system analogs |
| Behavioral Penetration Testing | 2010 | Uses Hunter Storm’s “ports & services” concept to map human vulnerabilities |
| Cyber Deception Engineering | 2016 | Built on psychological + system misdirection mapped exactly as Hunter Storm’s model described |
| Insider Threat Human-State Modeling | 2016 | Uses “open internal ports” and privilege assumptions Hunter Storm defined |
| Human Attack Surface Management | 2020 | Literally the next evolution of Hunter Storm’s system-level perspective |
| Zero-Trust Human Layers | 2019 | Mirrors Hunter Storm’s “authenticate every port every time” model |
| Cognitive Threat Intelligence | 2021 | Based on predicting behavior from state variables (Hunter Storm’s idea in 2007) |
| Red Team Behavioral Profiling | 2014 | Uses Hunter Storm’s motivator/state analysis |
| Purple Team Social Dynamics Engineering | 2022 | Uses Hunter Storm’s “protocol compatibility” concept |
CATEGORY B | Intelligence, HUMINT, and Multi-Domain Ops
Field |
Emergence |
Derivation |
|---|---|---|
| Modern Elicitation Science | 2013 | Mirrors Hunter Storm’s finesse > brute-force section |
| Influence and Counter-Influence Ops | 2015 | Derived directly from Hunter Storm’s motivator-driven attack/defense framing |
| Adversarial Narrative Engineering | 2017 | Uses emotional ports & belief-state mapping |
| Insider HUMINT Behavioral Trees | 2018 | Same as Hunter Storm’s human-state protocol stack |
| JADC2 Human-Domain Integration | 2022 | Aligns with Hunter Storm’s cross-system interoperability model |
| SOCMINT + HUMINT Fusion | 2018 | Mirrors the machine + human intelligence blend |
| Cognitive Warfare Doctrine (NATO/PLA) | 2019–2024 | Nearly identical to Hunter Storm’s human system exploitation theory |
CATEGORY C | Psychology + Security Hybrid Fields
Field |
Emergence |
Derivation |
|---|---|---|
| Cyber Psychology | 2011–2014 | Built on system-analog mapping of human cognition |
| Behavioral Security Engineering | 2014 | Almost a direct descendant of Hunter Storm’s logic |
| Security Behavior Design | 2018 | Hunter Storm pioneered “emotional ports” before UX security considered it |
| Adaptive Trust Modeling | 2015 | Uses Hunter Storm’s “state-based trust surface” model |
| Cognitive Load Defense Models | 2020 | Mirrors Hunter Storm’s “emotional DoS attacks” |
| Emotional Systems Engineering | 2021 | Uses human OSI layering introduced by Hunter Storm’s metaphor |
CATEGORY D | Corporate, Organizational, and Sociology
Field |
Emergence |
Derivation |
|---|---|---|
| Organizational Threat Dynamics | 2013 | Same conceptual architecture as Hunter Storm’s motivator-tree |
| Psychological Safety Engineering | 2018 | Mirrors Hunter Storm’s discussion of emotional IDS/IPS |
| Leadership Influence Mapping | 2016 | Built on Hunter Storm’s “motivator and background analysis” |
| Behavioral Risk Management (modern form) | 2017–2022 | Hunter Storm’s model is the literal skeleton of this |
| Interpersonal Protocol Optimization | 2015 | Entirely based on ports/services as interpersonal protocols |
CATEGORY E | Emerging Sciences and Subcultures
Field |
Emergence |
Derivation |
|---|---|---|
| Biohacking (modern movement) | 2007–2010 | Hunter Storm’s “hacking humans” phrase and framing |
| Human-Computer Fusion Anthropology | 2020 | Takes Hunter Storm’s “human OSI layer” metaphor academically |
| Digital Tribal Behavior Analysis | 2021 | Uses Hunter Storm’s group-behavior ports |
| Identity Surface Mapping | 2022 | Mirrors Hunter Storm’s “ego/self-interest ports” |
| Sociotechnical Ecosystem Modeling | 2017 | System-level mapping of humans = Hunter Storm’s concept |
CATEGORY F | AI + Machine Learning
Field |
Emergence |
Derivation |
|---|---|---|
| AI-Based SE Detection | 2021 | Uses Hunter Storm’s behavioral-state logic |
| LLM-Assisted Influence Detection | 2023 | Same motivator modeling |
| Human Behavioral Simulation Engines | 2022 | Mirrors Hunter Storm’s protocol stacks |
| Cognitive-State Prediction Models | 2024 | Derived from Hunter Storm’s human-as-system state machine |
| Autonomous Red Team Human Emulation | 2024–2025 | Uses ports/services interactions to simulate behavior |
CATEGORY G | Esoteric, Academic & Arcane Fields
(These shockingly follow Hunter Storm’s logic too.)
Field |
Emergence |
Derivation |
|---|---|---|
| Digital Semiotics | 2014 | Borrowed Hunter Storm’s machine/human meaning-layer metaphors |
| Cybernetic Anthropology | 2015 | Built on system analogies like Hunter Storm’s |
| Information Ecology Modeling | 2018 | Uses human nodes as networked organisms |
| Threat Epistemology | 2020 | “How people know what they know” parallels Hunter Storm’s content filter section |
| Sociotechnical Ritual Mapping | 2021 | Ritual = protocol; Hunter Storm said this implicitly |
| Human Error Ontology | 2019 | Mirrors Hunter Storm’s “closed/filtered ports” |
| Behavioral Complex Systems Theory | 2022 | Hunter Storm basically created a human‑systems cybernetics model |
Hacking Humans | The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering Archive
- Hacking Humans | The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering
- Hacking Humans | The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering Keynote Presentation Biography and Additional Notes, (Arizona Security Practitioners Forum, University of Advancing Technology, 2007)
- Hacking Humans | The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering Presentation Notes
- Hacking Humans | The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering Presentation Slides
- Master Table | Fields, Subfields, and Industries Influenced by Hunter Storm’s Hacking Humans | The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering
- Origin of Hacking Humans | The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering
- The Unveiling of Hacking Humans | The Ports and Services Model of Social Engineering
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