Dedicated to the Science of Conversation

Conversation Tradecraft™ was created to provide a dedicated educational environment for the multidisciplinary study of deception.

Faculty

Cameron H Malin

JD, CISSP, CTM, CEH is a former FBI Supervisory Special Agent and Behavioral Profiler

Cameron H. Malin

Cameron H. Malin, JD, CISSP, CTM, CEH is a former FBI Supervisory Special Agent and Behavioral Profiler whose career has focused on understanding the human behavior behind cybercrime, deception, influence, and national security threats. During more than 20 years with the FBI, he investigated, analyzed, and behaviorally profiled cyber adversaries ranging from individual offenders and criminal organizations to sophisticated national security threat actors.
Cameron founded the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit’s Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center (CBAC), establishing a dedicated capability for applying behavioral science and profiling methodologies to cyber adversaries. He also founded the BAU’s Deception and Influence Group (DIG), focused on the behavioral dynamics of deception, influence, and computer-mediated communications. His work has helped advance the integration of behavioral science with cyber threat intelligence, digital forensics, investigations, and threat assessment.
Following his FBI career, Cameron founded Modus Cyberandi, a boutique cyber behavioral profiling firm that applies science-based behavioral analysis to understanding, anticipating, and countering cyber adversaries. Through Modus Cyberandi, he provides specialized cyber behavioral profiling services designed to augment traditional threat assessment, cybersecurity and cyber threat intelligence.
Malin is also a founder of Psyber Labs, a cyber psychology and behavioral threat analysis company specializing in deepfakes, synthetic media, deception, influence, and adversary behavior. Psyber Labs developed the Deepfake Dashboard™ and its Deepfake & Synthetic Media Analysis Framework™ (DSMAF), which move beyond deepfake detection to systematically assess the behavioral and psychological dimensions of synthetic media—including credibility, influence, adversary motivation, intent, and targeting.
Malin is co-author of Deception in the Digital Age: Exploiting and Defending Human Targets Through Computer-Mediated Communications (Academic Press) and the Malware Forensics book series (Syngress), including Malware Forensics: Investigating and Analyzing Malicious Code, Malware Forensics Field Guide for Windows Systems, and Malware Forensics Field Guide for Linux Systems. He is also the creator of Digital Behavioral Criminalistics (DBC), an interdisciplinary approach combining digital forensics, criminalistics, and behavioral science to identify and interpret behavioral evidence within digital artifacts.
Cameron developed the Cyber Pathway to Intended Violence (CPIV), a behavioral model for examining how individuals use computers, digital devices, and online environments along the pathway toward premeditated violence. His work on DBC and CPIV appears in the chapter “Digital Behavioral Criminalistics to Elucidate the Cyber Pathway to Intended Violence” in the International Handbook of Threat Assessment, 2nd Edition (Oxford University Press, 2021).
Before joining the FBI, Malin served as an Assistant State Attorney and Special Assistant United States Attorney in Miami, Florida, specializing in computer crime prosecutions. He also served as an Assistant Professorial Lecturer in the Computer Fraud Investigations master’s program at George Washington University.

Behavioral Profiler

Founder of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit's (BAU) Cyber Behavioral Analysis Center.

Behavioral Interviewing Specialist

Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent and Behavioral Profiler who applied behavioral science to interviews and investigations.

Trusted Advisor

Fortune 500 companies and entertainment industry

Author

  • Deception in the Digital Age:

    Exploiting and Defending Human Targets through Computer-Mediated Communications

  • Malware Forensics book series Deceiving Is Believing:

    Deepfakes and Advanced Cyber Deception in the Digital Age (forthcoming in 2027)

Who We Are

Conversation at the Center of Study.

Most professionals learn to interview on the job — by watching others, by trial and error, or through a single course that treats questioning as a checklist. Conversation Tradecraft™ treats conversation itself as the subject of study: how memory works, how rapport is built, how questions shape answers, and how information is evaluated once it is obtained.

The result is a learning platform built for people whose work depends on what others tell them — combining on-demand courses, applied exercises, and field-ready reference tools in one place.

Science-based. Experience-informed. Analysis-focused.

Research-Grounded.

Grounded in research from the behavioral, social, and cognitive sciences.

Field-Tested.

Informed by decades of operational interviewing across criminal, cyber, insider-threat, and national-security matters.

Built for Practice.

Built around exercises, planning tools, and case-based scenarios so skills transfer from the course to the conversation.

What We Bring Together

One curriculum, six disciplines.

Our curriculum brings together scientific research, behavioral analysis, investigative experience, technology, case studies, and structured analytical methodologies.

Behavioral Science

Psychology, memory research, and communication science explaining why people share — or withhold — information

Proven Methodologies

Established frameworks such as PEACE, Cognitive Interviewing, and the Strategic Use of Evidence, taught as they were designed.

Investigative Experience

Lessons drawn from real interviews in criminal, cyber, insider-threat, and national-security contexts.

Digital Communication

How email, chat, social media, and video change rapport, disclosure, and credibility.

Applied Exercises

Scenarios, planning templates, and case studies that turn concepts into repeatable skills

Ethics and Non-Coercion

Rapport-based, lawful, and ethical approaches that produce more reliable information.

National-Security Experience

Tested Where Information Matters Most.

Cameron's work in interviewing, elicitation, and behavioral analysis has included consultation with organizations across the U.S. national security and defense communities and allied services, including:

  • U.S. National-Security & Defense Communities

  • United States Intelligence Community

  • Five Eyes Intelligence Services

  • NATO

  • U.S. Department of War

  • Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)

  • U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)

  • U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)

Core Principles

The discipline behind every course.

Evidence Over Assumption

Analytical conclusions should be supported by evidence rather than intuition alone.

Context Matters

Behavior cannot be meaningfully interpreted without considering the circumstances in which it occurs.

There Are No Universal “Tells”

No single verbal or nonverbal behavior proves deception.

Perception Is Fallible

Analysts must understand how expectations, biases, emotions, and prior beliefs influence interpretation.

Technology Changes — Human Psychology Endures

The mechanisms used to deliver deception evolve rapidly. Many of the psychological principles that make deception successful remain remarkably consistent.

Our Philosophy

The Quality of the Answer Depends on the Quality of the Conversation.

Every interview is shaped by choices — what to ask, when to ask it, how to listen, and when to stay silent. Most of those choices are made by instinct. Instinct is useful, but it is also where bias, assumption, and habit quietly creep in.

Effective information gathering replaces guesswork with method. It means planning before the conversation, building genuine rapport, asking questions that open rather than narrow, and evaluating what you hear against evidence instead of impressions.

At Conversation Tradecraft™, we teach professionals to approach every conversation as a structured, ethical exchange. The goal is not to be more persuasive or more forceful. It is to be more disciplined — so the information you obtain is complete, accurate, and worth acting on.

Start Learning

Ask Better Questions. Listen Deeper. Learn More.

Whether you conduct investigative interviews, assess insider risk, engage with cyber threat actors, or simply rely on conversations to make decisions, Conversation Tradecraft™ gives you a structured path to doing it well.
Study the science. Practice the methods. Apply the tradecraft.