Episode 140: Jennifer Shannon & Kevin Tackett - Secure Ideas
From Layer 8 Podcast by Layer 8 Conference
March 30, 2026 · 46 min · Season 6 · Episode 9
About this episode
This episode features Jennifer Shannon and Kevin Tackett discussing social engineering practices and client interactions in security consulting.
Jennifer Shannon is a Senior Security Consultant for Secure Ideas. Kevin Tackett is formerly known as Kevin Johnson, the CEO and founder of Secure Ideas . On this episode, we talked about why Kevin tells some prospective clients that he won't do social engineering for them. We also go into some SE stories, some favorite pretexts and why social engineers get stopped by the people they're testing.
People in this episode
Guests: Jennifer Shannon, Kevin Tackett
Topics covered
- social engineering
- security consulting
- client relations
- pretexts
- testing
Keywords
- social engineering
- security consultant
- Secure Ideas
- client relations
- pretexts
- testing stories
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Secure Ideas
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