Story-led sessions on AI, social engineering, fraud, ethical hacking and trust.
Cyber keynotes, CPD training and board-ready briefings
Cyber training that makes risk real.
DarkMind Ltd helps organisations understand the human side of cybersecurity: social engineering, ethical hacking, AI-enabled threats, fraud pressure and the decisions people make when trust is being weaponised.
- Keynotes for leadership, industry and public-sector audiences
- Immersive four-hour training projects for mixed-ability teams
- Briefings shaped around current threats and realistic attacker behaviour
- 4-hour
- immersive training sessions
- £999
- per flagship project course
- £2,999
- for all four flagship courses
Threat signal desk
Live briefing feed
Signals
03
Focus
Human risk
Use
Briefings
Previous clients
Cisco
NPCC
Home Office
Cabinet Office
Counter Terror
Equifax
Sage
Virgin Media O2
Scenario-based learning for teams who need habits, judgement and confidence.
Live threat examples translated for boards, security teams and frontline staff.
Professional talks
Make modern cyber risk feel real before it becomes real.
speaks to industry, security teams, public-sector audiences and leadership groups about how AI, social engineering and ethical hacking collide in the current threat landscape.
Sessions are practical, story-led and built for mixed technical ability. The goal is simple: people leave sharper, more sceptical, and better prepared to challenge what looks legitimate.
Keynote
AI as an accelerator
How generative AI speeds up reconnaissance, persuasion, deepfake credibility and defensive automation.
Briefing
Trust is the exploit
Why phishing, vishing, smishing and pretexting work, and how to build a culture that pauses well.
Story session
Confessions of a nerdy hacker
Ethical hacking, grey-hat lessons, curiosity, consequences and the human side of cybercrime prevention.
Immersive training projects
Four flagship courses for the people attackers target first.
Each project is an in-person, four-hour session designed for strong knowledge absorption without jargon overload. Courses are built for mixed audiences and focus on practical decisions, critical thinking and memorable scenarios.
Simple booking options
Book one project or train the whole stack.
DarkMind systems
Eplore DarkMind's Free Learning Resources
These tools extend the training into focused practice areas. Each system has its own space, so this page can stay clear and the deeper learning can live where it belongs.
01
SuperReader
Fast, focused reading for cyber notes, reports and training content.
darkmind.uk/superreader 02DarkMind Python
Short lessons, quizzes and progression for practical Python learning.
darkmind.uk/python 03Cyber Missions
Gamified cyber learning built around missions and practical scenarios.
darkmind.uk/missions 04Social Engineering
Focused learning on trust, manipulation and human-risk defence.
darkmind.uk/socialengineering
Accessibility checked
SuperReader scores 10/10 in WAVE accessibility testing.
View report
Accessibility checked
Bruno scores 9.7/10 in WAVE accessibility testing.
View report
Accessibility checked
DarkMind homepage scores 9.8/10 in WAVE accessibility testing.
View report
Accessibility checked
Missions scores 9.2/10 in WAVE accessibility testing.
View report
Why DarkMind
Real stories, practical language, serious experience.
Grey-hat background, white-hat purpose
Tom brings a lived understanding of attacker curiosity, social manipulation and technical risk, translated into legal, ethical and constructive training.
No jargon, no sleepwalking
Sessions use stories, scenarios and plain language so everyone can engage, from front-desk staff to senior leaders and technical teams.
Industry and public-sector credibility
Experience includes professional speaking and training across cyber, policing, government, education, Cisco events and major industry audiences.
About Tom Johnson
Executive-level cyber insight from someone who understands the attacker mindset.
Tom Johnson works at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity and governance, advising on systems that need to be useful, resilient and trusted under pressure. His background spans senior cyber architecture, offensive security, social engineering and hands-on AI engineering, giving him a rare ability to connect strategic risk with real-world attacker behaviour.
He has delivered keynotes, specialist briefings and technical training for audiences across government, policing, counter-terror, major technology events, higher education and private-sector security teams. His sessions are known for making complex threats understandable without diluting their seriousness.
Tom’s work focuses on orchestration, governance and human-in-the-loop control, particularly where AI changes the speed, scale and credibility of modern attacks. He regularly translates emerging risks such as deepfakes, synthetic identity, automated reconnaissance and AI-assisted persuasion into practical decisions leaders and teams can act on.
Courses coming soon
Reality Hack
Synthetic Intelligence
Cortical
Driveby
Weak Link
Book a talk or training session
Bring DarkMind into your organisation.
Tell us what you need: a keynote, leadership briefing, cyber awareness session, AI-threat talk, or one of the four flagship training projects.