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DEFCON PROTOCOL

// We Hack Health

The 12-week operational readiness program for cybersecurity and tech professionals who refuse to get destroyed at the hacking Olympics.

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WHH was at DEFCON in 2023 and 2024. Our clients weren’t surviving it. They were operating in it.

Built for cybersecurity and tech professionals who are heading to DEFCON...and refuse to arrive broken, leave wrecked, or spend a week recovering when they get home.

  • Show up to hacker summer camp with your hardware actually ready
  • Stay sharp across four days of maximum cognitive load, heat, and open bars
  • Come home operational — not wiped out for a week with Con Crud
>_> DEFCON PROTOCOL
IntakeOnline
Start dateMay 25th

> THREAT_ASSESSMENT

You don’t need to survive DEFCON.
You need to dominate it.

THE HARD TRUTH IS...

DEFCON’s own official guidance — posted from their own account, every single year — is this: Get at least three hours of sleep. Eat two meals. Take one shower. That is the floor. That is what thirty thousand cybersecurity professionals need to be formally reminded of, every year.
Twenty thousand steps a day on a body that does three thousand.
104°F outside with air so dry it dehydrates you before your first drink.
Four days of maximum cognitive load at the most information-dense conference in cybersecurity.
More alcohol than you planned. Less sleep than you will admit.
Thirty thousand people from every timezone, sharing airspace, sharing whatever virus they brought from home.
The survival guides written by experienced DEFCON attendees — people who have done this ten, fifteen times — describe nearly collapsing from exhaustion. Being half-zombified for weeks after coming home. Walking over thirty miles in a single week and landing back broken. This is not a conference. It is a physiological stress test dressed up as a conference. And almost everyone walks in completely unprepared for what it actually is.

THE HARD TRUTH IS ALSO...

You’re not failing because you’re not smart enough. You’re failing because nobody treated your body like infrastructure that needed to be operational before it got deployed into a hostile environment. DEFCON is the same conference for everyone. The experience is not. The operators who show up ready absorb more. Connect better. Don’t disappear on day two. Don’t spend a week recovering when they land home. And they don’t get Con Crud. Con Crud is real. It has a name because it happens so reliably that the community invented a term for it. Sleep deprivation. Weakened immune systems from travel. Thirty thousand people in a confined space from every corner of the world. Research on equivalent large-scale conferences shows a 70% greater infection risk for people who stay three or more days. You’re going for all four. You haven’t been failing. You just never had the right system running before you landed.

You haven't been failing. You just never had the right system running before you landed.

> ROOT_CAUSE_ANALYSIS

DEFCON Protocol exists for one reason.

To install the hardware and software upgrades so that when DEFCON hits, your system doesn’t crash. Twelve weeks of targeted preparation built around the specific, documented, predictable demands of the hacking Olympics — the mileage, the sleep deprivation, the alcohol, the food environment, the jet lag, the heat, the cognitive load, the social grind.

Mileage Ready

Twenty thousand steps a day. Your body built to handle it before day one.

Environment Overhead

104°F. Open bar. Four days of maximum cognitive load. Your system runs clean regardless.

Resilience Installed

Sleep deprivation. Travel. Crowds. Con Crud. The protocols that keep you operational when everything around you is trying to break you.

Not a generic fitness program.

Not a wellness initiative.

Not an HR poster.

An operational readiness protocol. Built specifically for DEFCON. Starting now.

Nobody else has built this. We checked.

DEFCON’s community has the 3-2-1 rule. Black Hat ran yoga sessions once. There are blog posts about buying better insoles. That is the entire field. That is the competition.
  • Not 90-minute sessions in a gym you hate
  • Not a diet plan that ignores the open bar
  • Not generic wellness advice from someone who has never been to DEFCON
  • A complete system. Built for your specific environment. Starting now.

> THE_12_WEEK_MAP

The 12-Week Map

What happens in DEFCON Protocol

> WHATS_INCLUDED

What’s Included?

CORE PROGRAM
  • 12-week DEFCON-specific training block
  • Two weekly group calls throughout
  • Coach check-ins with the full WHH team
  • 1:1 System Audit with Ben — week one
PROTOCOL LIBRARY
  • DEFCON Travel Protocol
  • Jet Lag Elimination Protocol
  • Conference Management Protocol
  • Las Vegas Eating and Alcohol Guide
  • Immune System and Con Crud Prevention Protocol
  • Post-DEFCON Recovery Protocol
COMMUNITY AND EXPERIENCE
  • DEFCON Private Member Channel (Discord)
  • WHH Group Meetup at DEFCON — Las Vegas
  • DEFCON Swag Pack — contents revealed to enrolled members
  • Pre-DEFCON Mission Briefing Call (week 11)
  • Exclusive Dave Kennedy podcast episode — members only

1:1 DEFCON System Audit with Ben

A personal call to review your baseline, travel plans, and specific DEFCON goals, then prioritize exactly what to execute across the 12 weeks.

> THE_COMPETITION

The Competition

We ran Level Zero as a competition. We’re running it again. The operators who show up and execute get rewarded. Compliance and engagement tracked across twelve weeks. Top three operators win.
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1ST PLACE

One full year of Endgame coaching.

2

2ND PLACE

Six months of coaching.

3

3RD PLACE

Level Zero fee refunded.

This is not a participation trophy system. It’s a leaderboard. Show up and compete.

> YOUR_NEW_OPERATING_SYSTEM

Your New
Operating System

12 weeks to show up at DEFCON as a fully operational system.

Early Bird

$897
31Days:11Hrs:35Min:09Sec

Early bird finishes May 17th.

Our Promise

Our ‘Hard to Fail’ Guarantee

If you execute the protocol with 80% compliance:

Complete Level Zero: DEFCON Protocol at 80% compliance and you get $1,000 off Endgame. Endgame intake: August 17th. You finish DEFCON ready. You go straight into the next build.

No Drama Policy

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Ben Canning, Founder We Hack Health
“You’ve already been to DEFCON on an unpatched system. You know exactly what that feels like. This is where you fix it.”

— Ben Canning, Founder, We Hack Health

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> PROOF_OF_EXECUTION

The Operators Who Went Ready

Real signals from DEFCON attendees and Level Zero graduates.

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WHH at DEFCON

WHH at DEFCON. These are our people.

> QUESTIONS_AND_ANSWERS

FAQ

// This programme is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to DEFCON or its organisers.

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