Kevin Tackett
CEO at IANS Research
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Tackett is a seasoned cybersecurity leader and founder with 14+ years of hands-on experience directing Secure Ideas and delivering penetration tests, security consulting, and training. Based in Jacksonville, he blends executive leadership as CEO with deep technical chops—historic roles include Senior Instructor at SANS and contributions as a DevOps/Security Engineer to the popular SamuraiWTF distro where he automated tool deployments and integrated Docker and networking for pentesting environments. An active contributor to the security community, he has served on the OWASP Global Board and as Project Committee Vice-Chair, and he teaches through IANS Research. His background spans both programming and systems administration dating back to the 1990s, giving him a rare mix of long-term operational perspective and modern offensive security practice._clients appreciate that he pairs practical exploit development and automation skills with a focus on translating risks into teachable, remediable outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
GCIA Intrusion Analysis, GCIA Intrusion Analysis at SANS GCIASANS InstituteIncident Handling, Incident Handling at SANS GCIHWebSphere Administration, WebSphere Administration at IBM WebSphere
Github Skills (15)
it-security10
bash10
docker10
script10
dockers10
security10
vagrant9
zap9
automations9
automation9
network-configuration8
wget7
git7
linux7
unzip6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
SamuraiWTF/samuraiwtf
Jul 2017 - Aug 2022
The main SamuraiWTF collaborative distro repo.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Security Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Security EngineerContributions:4 releases, 5 reviews, 74 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on building and configuring the environment for the SamuraiWTF distro. Their work involved installing and integrating various security and pentesting tools such as Burp Suite, Nikto, SQLmap, and ZAP. They also automated processes by creating or modifying scripts to streamline the installation and setup of the environment including the addition of Docker and networking configurations.
vagrantburpsuitepentest-toolsamuraidistro
SamuraiWTF/samurai-dojo
May 2019 - Feb 2021
New revision for Dojo Basic as originally created by meeas.
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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