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Welcome to the Layer 8 Podcast season 5! This season we’ll have conversations with social engineers and OSINT investigators who will tell their stories. We hope you enjoy them.
Layer 8 Conference hosts Layer 8 Podcast, a technology show with 148 episodes published.
Dr. Abbie Maroño is a behavioral scientist and the Director of Education for Social Engineer, LLC. She frequently consults on body language, non-verbals and public speaking, all using data backed by science. She is a fre
John Bejakovic is a business copywriter who writes a daily newsletter at bejakovic.com , an online journal and wrote a book about influence techniques that he has learned. He acknowledges the work of Robert Cialdini and
The Layer 8 Conference will have a full scope social engineering capture the flag (CTF) competition this year. This is an event that has been created by John Costa and Jordan Saleh. In this episode, we hear from John and
Brett Redman , the Chief Operating Officer of OSINT Industries returns to the Layer 8 Podcast. He talks a bit about platform and training opportunities available through his company. We also talked about the role that AI
For this episode, our host attended a covert entry class with Covert Access Team in Copenhagen, and spoke with Gunther Royen and Scott McLean about their experiences. They talk tales of physical security bypass, lessons
On this episode, we're excited to announce that the OSINT keynote speaker for the Layer 8 Conference will be Micah Hoffman ! See more about Micah here: https://layer8conference.com/keynote-speakers-2026/ In this episode,
Brian Harris is the creator of Covert Access Team , a company that performs physical security testing. That can include testing whether your detection and response is up to snuff, or if your physical controls such as loc
Carter Zupancich is a Solutions Architecture Manager at Doppel . In this episode, Carter tells us how far AI has come in assisting with phone phishing, or vishing. AI has been built up to where it's almost impossible to
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
Mathieu Gaucheler is the Subject Matter Expert at Maltego where he works with clients on custom OSINT solutions and also runs their public CTFs and conference demonstrations. He co-wrote a whitepaper on discovering some
The Layer 8 Conference is excited to announce the first of its keynote speakers for 2026, Christina Lekati ! Christina is a social engineering specialist who works with Cyber Risk, GmbH in Munich, Germany. She got her un
Rosa Rowles has spent more than six years as a social engineer, mainly performing vishing calls. She reports that she has made more than 20,000 calls in her career. In this episode, she talks about using OSINT to build a
Sagi Brody is the CEO and creator of Sockpuppet.io , a company that makes sockpuppets available for investigations. If you've ever tried to create your own sock accounts, you know how difficult they can sometimes be to c
It's pretty easy to guess what she does simply by her name. Mrs. OSINT has an incredible web site dedicated to sharing her learning journey and helping others do the same. She has a " Start Here " page for people looking
Johnathan Walton got conned out of $100,000 by a very experienced con-woman. When most people get conned or scammed, they're embarrassed and never tell anyone about the experience. Johnathan is different. He tells everyo
Want to get into the OSINT field and are unsure where to start? Then this is the episode for you. Dennis Keefe started out in law enforcement, became a web developer and then changed into the OSINT field through his own
Have you thought much about physical security and whether someone could breach a building's guards, alarms and cameras? On this episode, we talk with Chris Cowling , the founder of RedTeamers.eu and their training compan
Kirby Plessas is an OSINT pioneer, US military veteran, business owner, board member, is OSC certified and podcast host. Kirby was an Arabic linguist in the military who started sharing what she knew with team members in
Craig Taylor is the founder and CEO of CyberHoot a security awareness company that focuses on positive reinforcement and gamification. Craig studied psychology and used that knowledge when creating CyberHoot, which he of
Tim Farmer is the OSINT Training Lead for Dark Blue at CACI . He performs investigations along with teaching OSINT classes with a focus on the deep and dark web. (Don't know the difference? We discuss that in this episod
Dr. Abbie Maroño
Dr.
2 appearances on this show
Johnathan Walton
former TV reporter, reality TV producer, host of Queen of the Con
1 appearance on this show
Tim Farmer
Clinical Director
1 appearance on this show
Brian Harris
Director · AVENIR Leadership Institute
1 appearance on this show
Steven Harris
cyber threat analyst and SANS OSINT instructor · ILADS
1 appearance on this show
Chris Russell
retired Air Force intelligence officer and leadership coach · Spire Hospitality
1 appearance on this show
Jack Rhysider
1 appearance on this show
Robin Dreeke
retired FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program · FBI
1 appearance on this show
Joe Gray
Garage Gym Competition
2 appearances on this show
Lee Anderson
Deputy Group CEO · Lebern Group
1 appearance on this show
Stefanie LaHart
Boomtown Marketing
1 appearance on this show
Phillip Wylie
Chief Security Evangelist and Senior Consultant · Suzu Labs
1 appearance on this show
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