The Security Awareness Company, originally known as Interpact, Inc., was founded in 1990 by Winn Schwartau, who has been intimately involved with information security since 1984. We offer a wide range of information security services for today’s organizations, governments, commercial and educational.  The Security Awareness Company (SAC) has and is continually providing choices to a well-rounded approach to information security services, policy development and security awareness education and training for 15 years.  SAC can assist you in securing, protecting and maintaining your information technology systems and their integrity of client and proprietary resources.

Our mission is to focus on the people, not the technology.  As part of our mission statement, we believe that Security is really about empowering employees to stick with their organization’s goals, helping them understand the risks and vulnerabilities in the workplace and educating them on what they can do to make information security a priority

Unlike most other organizations, we come from security and have extensive experience and credentials.

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We have performed security awareness training and education for audiences around the world, with an emphasis on the financial and government sectors. The company founded InfowarCon, creating a popular international forum for the converging security concerns of business, government and law enforcement.

We believe that security awareness is best achieve by engaging the audience, (technical, managerial or user) in entertaining and interactive materials. One of the most effective means we have developed to get active user participation and support is by making security very personal. Educating staff on protecting the personal lives of their families makes for a simple translation to import corporate policies and procedures.

Through a combination of vibrant graphics, messages, repetition and “Security Branding”, we have developed comprehensive content delivery mechanisms and awareness assessment tools that encourages accurate measurements and compliance.

SAC maintains extensive relationships with security experts in all disciplines around the world, and has used them in other security awareness programs when needed, from HIPAA to SarBox to GLBA &  ISO 799 and other compliancy guidelines and mandates.

Our complete team is comprised of multi-disciplinary people including instructional design, training consultancy, project management, creative design, technology support and industry expertise, enabling us to give your organization the broadest range of learning solutions and services.

Contact Us for your specific needs.

Our History

January 1990:
     Interpact established as the International Partnership against CyberTerrorism, a training and awareness company.
July 1990
     Sold ‘C2’ security products based ACSI, and Department of Defense approved security technology to Novell and partners.
August 1990
     Published first issues “Security Insider Report.”
July 1991
      “Terminal Compromise” first published.
September 1991
      Developed Security Architecture and Security Profile Analysis tools for Hughes (US) and ICL, Ltd. (UK) for JP Morgan.
January 1992
      Developed first non-classified model for Information Warfare armies.
August 1993
      Completed models for “Information Warfare”
April 1994
      “Information Warfare” published and banned in the U.K.
      Named as Manhattan Cyber Project Lead for Infrastructure Protection
May 1994
      FBI and other US Intelligence Agencies begin probe into open source information. Interpact begins a ten year project of teaching
      Information Warfare around the world. NATO, FBI, NSA, NASA, DoD, DND, MoD (UK, Singapore, Sweden, etc.)
September 1994
      Founded and held world’s first InfowarCon International Conference, Wash. DC.
January 1995
      Commenced CyberWar Gaming Series for government and commercial training in Critical Infrastructure Protection.
May 1995
      First European InfowarCon International Conference, Brussels.
      Schwartau receives Golden Candle Award for future-thinking.
November 1995
      Information Warfare II published.
January 1996
      Interpact named as instrumental in PDD 63.
February 1996
      Principles of Time Based Security developed.
March 1996
      Infowar.Com opens and becomes popular portal for InfoWar issues.
May 1996
      Wrote first book to be banned from export from the US.
July 1996
      Established Interpact Press, an independent print publishing label.
September 1996
      Schwartau called “The Civilian Architect of Information Warfare”
January 1997
      First Interpact Press book turned profitable on ship date: “Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism”.
August 1997
      Interpact trains NATO in Luxembourg. WIRED mag covers Schwartau’s Infowar awareness efforts.
March 1998
      Built first organizational information security awareness specific programs, targeted at financial sectors and became known as The Security
      Awareness Company.
March 1999
      Security Awareness Training efforts include other industries.
March 2001
      “Internet and Computer Ethics” becomes the “best security book ever written (Dr. Fred Cohen). Addresses technology, education
       and kids as a single audience.
April 2001
      Trusted Learning Corporation founded.
September 2001
      “Pearl Harbor Dot Com” reedited and reprinted after 9/11.
March 2002
      First delivery of Security Awareness online training for national financial organization.
April 2002
      Interpact, Inc. President named “One of the top 50 thinkers” by Network World.
October 2002
      InfowarCon and Infowar.Com sold to Reed Elsevier.
September 2003
      10th Anniversary of InfowarCon. Last one held due to trademark infringement against InfowarCon. Lawsuits commence.
April 2004
      The Security Awareness Company becomes FS-ISAC sponsor.
July 2004
      Security Awareness Blog opens.
January 2005
      Won both Best Technical Blog and Best Overall Blog in the 2005 Business Blogging Awards.
March 2005
      Trusted Learning 2.0 is released.
January 2007
      InfowarCon is announced. We are back and in partnership with Larstan Events.