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Jayson E Street

Jayson E. Street is a hacker, author, speaker, and self-described "scientific hooligan" known for social-engineering and penetration-testing work.

Oct 20, 2026

3:07
When you say rob people, can you like give the viewers a little context about what that means?
3:12
I do a thing, I call it silver teaming.
3:15
It's like I even got a website, silver-team.org now to explain it because I don't do red teaming.
3:21
Red teaming is an offensive security term for when people go in and emulate an attacker and then they give a report to the executive saying, this is what, where your failings are.
3:33
Purple teaming is where red teamers work with blue teamers and then report to executives about this is what we learned, this is what we've done and what we discovered.
3:43
Silver teaming, I report to the employees.
3:48
I go in and become like, I use red team tactics and I try to be the worst thing I can have to you.
4:42
This guy was
3:07
When you say rob people, can you like give the viewers a little context about what that means?
3:12
I do a thing, I call it silver teaming.
3:15
It's like I even got a website, silver-team.org now to explain it because I don't do red teaming.
3:21
Red teaming is an offensive security term for when people go in and emulate an attacker and then they give a report to the executive saying, this is what, where your failings are.
3:33
Purple teaming is where red teamers work with blue teamers and then report to executives about this is what we learned, this is what we've done and what we discovered.
3:43
Silver teaming, I report to the employees.
3:48
I go in and become like, I use red team tactics and I try to be the worst thing I can have to you.
4:42
This guy was
3:07
When you say rob people, can you like give the viewers a little context about what that means?
3:12
I do a thing, I call it silver teaming.
3:15
It's like I even got a website, silver-team.org now to explain it because I don't do red teaming.
3:21
Red teaming is an offensive security term for when people go in and emulate an attacker and then they give a report to the executive saying, this is what, where your failings are.
3:33
Purple teaming is where red teamers work with blue teamers and then report to executives about this is what we learned, this is what we've done and what we discovered.
3:43
Silver teaming, I report to the employees.
3:48
I go in and become like, I use red team tactics and I try to be the worst thing I can have to you.
4:42
This guy was
3:25
So how what back you, you know, you know, put you into security, how you started, what got you interested and how you started, you know, working security?
3:34
I started working security because I'm very old back in 2000 when I was working at the help desk.
3:41
A friend of mine who's a friend of mine now, but it was my boss, Tim Smith.
3:45
asked me if I wanted to do network security or computer security.
3:49
And I was like, what? I could do security and computers? Because I was doing security, physical security before then.
3:55
And so I was like, yeah, sign me up.
3:57
So I started doing what we call now the blue team, the defender's role, where I was trying to protect But even when I was protecting our companies and the companies I worked for and the banks that I worked for, I was thinking of it like a hacker.
6:19
And was that a moment when you started that is, you know, this is for life?

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