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Bishop Fox Live at DEF CON 30 featuring Alethe Denis

Listen to social engineering expert Alethe Denis share her stories and insight with our DEF CON livestream hosts Tom Eston and Joe Sechman.

Bishop Fox Consultant Alethe Denis dives into her background in security, her appearance on Darknet Diaries, how she conducts her phishing campaigns, and more in this interview from DEF CON 30.


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About the author, Alethe Denis

Senior Security Consultant II

Alethe Denis is a Senior Security Consultant II at Bishop Fox specializing in red team social engineering, physical security bypass, and open-source intelligence (OSINT). With extensive experience conducting security assessments for both private and public sector organizations — including critical infrastructure — she brings a rare combination of technical depth and human-focused attack simulation to every engagement.


Tom Eston

About the author, Tom Eston

VP of Consulting and Cosmos at Bishop Fox

Tom Eston is the VP of Consulting and Cosmos at Bishop Fox. Tom's work over his 15 years in cybersecurity has focused on application, network, and red team penetration testing as well as security and privacy advocacy. He has led multiple projects in the cybersecurity community, improved industry standard testing methodologies and is an experienced manager and leader. He is also the founder and co-host of the podcast The Shared Security Show; and a frequent speaker at user groups and international cybersecurity conferences including Black Hat, DEF CON, DerbyCon, SANS, InfoSec World, OWASP AppSec, and ShmooCon.

Joe sechman

About the author, Joe Sechman

AVP of R&D at Bishop Fox

Joe is a Bishop Fox alumnus. Over his career, Joe has amassed many security certifications, delivered several presentations, and has co-authored multiple industry publications with groups such as ISC2, ISACA, ASIS, HP, and IEEE.

Additionally, Joe is a prolific inventor with nine granted patents in the fields of dynamic and runtime application security testing, attack surface enumeration, and coverage (U.S. Patents 10,699,017, 10,515,219, 10,516,692, 10,515,220, 10,423,793, 9,846,781, 10,650,148, 10,587,641, and 11,057,395). Prior to joining Bishop Fox, Joe held leadership positions with companies such as Cobalt Labs, HP Fortify, Royal Philips, and Sunera LLC (now Focal Point Data Risk). Earlier in his career, Joe served as the lead penetration tester within SPI Labs at SPI Dynamics where he cut his teeth alongside some of the best and brightest application security industry professionals. Joe received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Management Information Systems from the Terry College of Business - University of Georgia.

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