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Mental Shield

A programme building personal and mental security skills: how manipulation is constructed, why fraud works even on intelligent people, and what to do about it without special training.

Why

Technology is better defended than people

Thirty-five years of practice, from field work to corporate investigations, make one thing obvious: almost every scheme begins by persuading a person to take the step themselves. The system is not broken into — whoever holds the access is talked into it.

Mental Shield transfers the professional toolkit — profiling, detecting deception, countering manipulation, hard negotiation — into a form anyone can use without training.

Architecture

Two echelons of defence

The structure mirrors the logic of protecting a site: an outer perimeter and an inner foundation.

Echelon 1 Echelon 2
The outer ring takes the first hit. The inner one works when the outward signs of deception no longer help.
Echelon 1

Outer defence

Information hygiene, legal safety, resistance to manipulation. Everything that concerns contact with the outside world: incoming calls and messages, pressure, urgency, “exclusive offers”.

  • Information hygiene
  • Legal safety
  • Resisting manipulation
  • Recognising social engineering
Echelon 2

Inner security

The foundation of the person: morality, faith, logic and the mind's “factory settings”. What you fall back on when the outward signs of deception no longer help and the decision is yours alone.

  • Relying on logic and facts
  • Enduring values as a test
  • Healthy boundaries
  • Decisions under pressure

The student's path

Seven stages

The path runs from a short self-assessment to corporate and expert programmes. The first stage is open to everyone.

  • Free course

    The basics: how manipulation and fraud schemes are built.

  • Test: how vulnerable are you to manipulation?

    A short self-assessment with a debrief.

  • Mental Detective

    Interactive analysis of situations true to real structures.

  • Quests

    Practical scenarios in a game format.

  • Community

    A Telegram channel with analyses and discussion.

  • Corporate training

    A staff programme on anti-fraud and social engineering.

  • Expert programmes

    Advanced modules for professionals in the field.

For companies

The corporate format

The same material, focused on workplace scenarios: attempted bribery, forged instructions from management, calls “from the bank”, pressure on staff with access.

  • Training for staff and the executive team
  • Programmes for HR and security functions
  • Analysis of the company's own incidents — anonymised
  • Assessment of staff resilience to social engineering

Next step

Where to start

Take the test, get access to the training, complete the course and take away something useful. To build new skills and reinforce the ones you have, you can also join the offline events.

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