Shared Security Podcast

Tom Eston, Scott Wright, Kevin Tackett

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Booking Overview

Shared Security is a cybersecurity and privacy show where industry veterans break down the most important security and privacy lessons from the week—plus the human mistakes behind them. It’s a strong booking target for security/privacy experts who can translate real-world incidents into practical, defensible guidance (often with humor).

Metrics

Episodes: 567

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 2.7k subscribers

Contact Information

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Host

Tom Eston - Described as one of the podcast’s industry veterans who breaks down cybersecurity/privacy WTF moments and explains why problems persist; in recent episodes he leads segments and discusses practical...

Scott Wright - Described as an industry veteran co-host who, along with Tom Eston and Kevin Tackett, breaks down cybersecurity and privacy lessons from the week.

Kevin Tackett - Described as an industry veteran co-host; the show’s description highlights his emphasis on real-world security/privacy problems and humor, including “Kevin yelling about vendor nonsense.”

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Security and privacy practitioners, product security leaders, and mobile/application security experts (e.g., senior product managers in app security or industry veterans). Guests should be able to explain real threat tradeoffs and practical defenses for organizations.
Required Achievements:  
Published security research or product security expertise in mobile/application security, Experience translating threat landscapes into actionable organizational controls

Recent Guest Discussions

Joel Destefano - Modern Mobile App Threat Landscape; Runtime Manipulation; API Abuse; Account Takeover; Fake Apps/overlays; Reverse Engineering; Ios Vs Android Risk; Ai-assisted Attacks; Why Backend-only Security Is Insufficient

Recent Topics

Cybersecurity, Privacy, Mobile Security, Application Security, Threat Modeling

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Shared Security Podcast
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Jay Beale on Kubernetes, DEF CON, and AI Attack Paths

June 29, 2026

This week on Shared Security, Tom and Kevin sit down with Jay Beale — founder of InGuardians, long-time Black Hat trainer, creator/contributor behind Kubernetes security training, and part of the team behind the DEF CON Kubernetes CTF. Jay shares stories from decades of offensive security work, including the time Tom hired him for a physical penetration test and Jay somehow ended up inside a call center instead of stuck in the lobby. The crew also digs into what makes good security training, ...

Can the Government Shut Down Frontier AI Overnight?

June 22, 2026

The U.S. government reportedly ordered Anthropic to suspend access to two of its newest frontier AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, citing national security concerns tied to a possible jailbreak. Anthropic complied, but pushed back on the reasoning, arguing that the reported behavior was narrow and that similar capabilities already exist in other advanced AI models.In this episode, Tom, Scott, and Kevin discuss why treating AI capabilities like export-controlled technology may create more probl...

Guarding AI Agents: Boundaries and Safeguards

June 15, 2026

AI agents are useful, but they become risky when they can take action in real systems. In this episode, Tom Eston discusses recent reporting about attackers tricking Meta’s AI support chatbot into helping hijack Instagram accounts, and why that story matters far beyond social media. Tom explains practical guardrails for AI agents: read-only access first, human approval for consequential actions, separated accounts and contexts, prompt-injection awareness, least privilege, logging, monitoring,...

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