training.sessions


I provide training on a wide variety of topics involving technology. The training sessions below are designed to educate employees of your business on the various ways that technology can either help them or be used against them. Custom presentations are available based on your needs and the length can be altered.

How to Protect Yourself and Your Organization from Computer Crime (2 Hours) [DVD Available]
This popular session focuses on recent trends in online fraud. This covers all of the internet scams, frauds, and ways that suspects steal your identity. I also discuss the details of how hackers commit their crimes, and what any person can do to protect themselves. The audience will learn immediately how data mining, password hackers, wireless networks, and cellular telephones are an emerging threat against them. Live examples of 'hacking' into your information will astonish the audience, while detailed solutions will be displayed to stop the threat. Free software solutions will be presented toward the end of the class. This session can be customized for a shorter time span.


Locating Personal Information Online (2 Hours)
[DVD Available]
This presentation will show the audience how to "dig" into the internet for personal information about themselves, their children, or others. While popular sites such as MySpace and Facebook are covered in great detail, the presentation goes much deeper into the vast resources available online for researching personal information. The information gathered will give a surprising glimpse of what anyone with an internet connection can find out about you! Over 120 sources of online information will be discussed. Aside from web sites, other technology such as digital camera data, data mining companies, and files being unknowingly copied to your computer will be explained. Here is a partial list of resources that will be explained and tested live.


Using the Internet to Conduct Background Checks (2 Hours)

This lecture is designed for personnel responsible for conducting background checks or investigating someone's history. The audience will be shown how to "dig" into the internet for clues about the true history of the applicant. While popular sites such as MySpace and Facebook are covered in great detail, the presentation goes much deeper into the vast resources available online for researching potential employees. Over 65 sources of online information will be discussed. Here is a partial list of resources that will be explained and tested live.


Protecting Your Business' Online Presence (2 Hours)
[DVD Available]
This interactive session identifies and demonstrates several methods of protecting your business' presence and image on the internet. Techniques to search for public and private commentary, reviews, and various information relevant to your business will be conducted live including methods to automate the process and bring the results to you. These queries will discover publicly available information that could harm an organization including complaints about service, employee information, comments from individuals, photos that can be tracked to the company, employee activity online, employee profiles, private emails, inaccurate information, confidential documents, and even private customer data exposure. Previous demonstrations have displayed that entire drives full of company documents were visible online by anyone with an internet connection. The audience will learn how to monitor social networking sites for mention of their business, how to respond to negative information posted to online communities, and how to control the information presented to potential customers through search engines and mobile applications. Solutions to solve all of these issues will be presented, as well as direct links to the sites that will help one identify the problems.


Computer Maintenance and Repair (2 Hours)
[DVD Available]
This helpful class teaches people of all ages how to maintain their computers and how to clean out all the junk that slows their computers down. Techniques shown will identify and remove the various viruses and malicious software present in most computers today. Experiments are done live in class and everyone should gain a new understanding of why their computer has 'aged'. Free software solutions will be presented toward the end of the class.

Full Training Session Boot Camp (8 hours)
This full day session covers complete lectures on the following:

How to Protect Yourself and Your Organization from Hackers
Using the Internet to Discover Personal Information
Protecting Your Business' Online Presence
Using the Internet to conduct Background Checks
Computer Cleaning and Infection Prevention
Advanced Online Digital Data (Documents, Photos, GPS)

These extended sessions cover everything that Mike teaches about the numerous ways that technology can create torment in our lives. From ID Thieves to password hackers, Social Network Sites to Hidden Digital Photo Information, Cell Phones to Email Analysis, and Online Stalking to Protecting Your Business' Documents, it is all here. This workshop is very "hands On" and conducted in a live online environment. Perfect for yearly employee training. Solutions on how to protect yourself, your family, and your business are clearly explained along with free software applications. Contact sales for details.


DVDs are also an optional purchase as part of the live presentation or training session. Each member of the audience can take home a personalized DVD similar to the event at an additional cost of only $10 per disc. Contact sales@computercrimeinfo.com for more details.