Hi and welcome to malicious life.

This week we have a slightly different episode for you an interview with Dave Kennedy

aka relic aka hacking Dave a world-class expert on social engineering I talked with Dave about the psychological principles behind social

engineering techniques and about the social engineering toolkit that he created to help people

test and harden their organization's defenses against these kinds

of attacks.

Dave is a fantastic speaker who knows how to tell great stories, so I'm sure you'll enjoy this discussion. I'll see you on the other side of the interview. Enjoy. Hello and welcome to malicious life. Today we have Dave Kennedy as a guest.

Dave Kennedy is a cyber security expert who created several popular open source tools, notably the social engineer toolkit, also known as SED set.

He is also one of the founding members of the penetration testing execution standard, P-T-E-S, the industry leading

standard and guidelines on penetration tests.

He is the founder of Derby Khan, one of the largest security conferences in the world.

He's also the founder of Trusted Sec, Cybersecurity Consulting Company, and BDS

monitoring and detection company. On a side note he consulted on hacker techniques for the

heat TV show Mr robot. Maybe you'll tell us a bit about that experience in a second.

Welcome to Malicious Live Day.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

I really appreciate it and good to be here.

Thank you very much and I've got to say that personally I'm very excited because you're the first mud player that I've

had the pleasure to talk to you other than myself in the last I think 20 years even

that's awesome That's awesome.

Yeah, I miss my budding days.

I miss my budding days, that's for sure.

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