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Bio

Following a distinguished career as a Senior Intelligence Officer within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Peter Warmka became a global security professional helping corporate clients mitigate risks in new foreign markets. His areas of specialization include cyber security, intelligence collection, competitive intelligence and asset protection management.

Because of his extensive background in social engineering, Mr. Warmka joined Webster University in 2015 as an Adjunct Professor where he lectures on intelligence and counter-intelligence as it relates to cyber security.

Mr. Warmka is also a frequent speaker on social engineering threats at various conferences for trade associations and wealth management advisory firms

Mr. Warmka received a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Master’s Degree in International Business Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management. Mr. Warmka is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and Certified Instructor at CIA University (CIAU).

Current position (1)

People Hacker

Degrees (1)

Masters of International Business Administration

Thunderbird

1981 to 1983

Presentations

Presentations (3)

Social Engineering

I take the audience through the stages of a social engineering attack starting with information collection on the organization as well as people who work there. I then demonstrate how this information is utilized across 4 different social engineering attack vectors to effectively manipulate targets thereby circumventing technological controls and leading to security breaches.

"Confessions of a CIA Spy - The Art of Human Hacking"

Most successful data breaches are initiated by human hacking. Threat actors carefully select, assess, and manipulate key employees within a target organization who in turn become the “insider threat.” Advanced social engineering techniques are employed to effectively circumvent the policies, procedures and technological controls put in place to safeguard proprietary information, client data and sensitive personnel records.

For over 20 years of his career with the Central Intelligence Agency, Peter developed expertise in the identification, assessment, and manipulation of insiders to breach the security of target organizations in pursuit of high value foreign intelligence. He now shares his insight to help protect organizations and employees against external threats.

"C-Suite: Insights into Cyber Security Risk Management"

The prospect of their organization suffering a devastating data breach is becoming a growing concern among C-Suite executives worldwide. Such breaches are conducted by a variety of threat actors who design and execute increasingly more sophisticated attacks to steal information (proprietary, client data, customer records) or to conduct financial extorsion in the form of ransomware or business email compromise (BEC). Such attacks can lead to a significant loss in operations and even force the enterprise out of business. C-Suite executives can no longer view security, whether physical or cyber, as a cost accounting item, but rather, an investment in people, processes and technologies.

In this session, Peter will leverage his expertise as a former intelligence officer, to help attendees understand the mindset of threat actors and the methodologies they use to turn employees into insider threats. He will then provide tips on how the C-Suite can lead and foster a successful trans

Past talks (4)

Social Engineering and the Art of Manipulation

28th Annual ACFE Global Conference

Nashville, Tennessee

June 12, 2017

Panelist on "Understanding the Risks of Cybersecurity for Your Business"

CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity

Syrachuse, New York

September 12, 2017

Social Engineering

Axa Financial Advisors Western Conference

Las Vegas, Nevada