No Password Required
The No Password Required Podcast connects with the cybersecurity industry’s most interesting professionals and shares their stories. No Password Required covers a variety of tech topics, from the cyber-related challenges facing law enforcement to the advent of quantum computing, this podcast explores the people and topics at the forefront of the field.
Episodes
From Best Buy to Cybersecurity: Curiosity, Confidence, and Finding Your Place in Tech
In this episode of No Password Required: Next Gen, Yazzel interviews Karina Rosario, Applications SOP Writer at ThreatLocker. Karina shares how her curiosity about technology led her from working at Best Buy and Geek Squad to earning her bachelor's degree in cybersecurity and beginning her career in the industry.
From building a strong IT foundation...
In this episode:
- Bruno's origin story: a fifteen year old in a French village of 1,200 people watches a late night TV show about two young American millionaires and wakes up his mom at midnight to announce his plan (05:47 - 07:08)
- Arriving in Seattle with a $10,000 loan, a backpack, and English as a work in progress (07:08 - 08:06)
- From MS-DOS to Windows NT to Exchange to Xbox to Hardware to HR, how a developer ends up running Mic...
Austin Walley - AP History Teacher Turned Cybersecurity Educator and a believer in figuring it out.
Austin Walley is a cybersecurity educator at George Jenkins High School in Lakeland, Florida, where he leads the school’s cybersecurity academy. But unlike many people in the field, Austin didn’t start in technology. He started as an AP history teacher and was recruited into cybersecurity after his administrators saw some...
In this episode:
- How a virus-infected Prince of Persia floppy disk on a Commodore 64 sparked a lifelong obsession with cybersecurity (03:03 - 06:45)
- From NYU to Yale cryptography PhD to Goldman Sachs to Gilt Groupe, and the near-miss that changed everything (03:03 - 06:45)
- What SecurityScorecard actually does and why the pen and paper questionnaire era had to end (06:55 - 08:18)
- What it looked like in the early days, inclu...
No Password Required: Next Gen - Ep. 3 - Kieran Human
How Lead Cybersecurity Engineers Actually Think
In this episode of No Password Required: Next Gen, Yazzel interviews Kieran Human, Lead Cybersecurity Engineer at ThreatLocker. From research to working directly with ThreatLocker's CEO on new security initiatives, Kieran gives an inside look at what it's really like to work on the front lines of cybersecurity.
Kieran stands ...
Philipp Leo — Swiss cyber expert, diplomat, and military officer, always two steps ahead of the storm
No Password Required Season 7: Episode 7 - Philipp Leo
Philipp Leo co-founded Leo & Muhly Cyber Advisory, a strategic advisory firm specializing in cyber risk, resilience, and geopolitics. Now consulting with governments and private firms in Switzerland and abroad, Philipp has served as a UN observer on the Korean DM...
In this episode:
- Why Rob always asks for the team nobody wants and what the turnaround process actually looks like (00:31 - 02:10)
- From sleeping in his car at 18 to Fortune 500 executive, and the kindness from strangers he still carries with him today (02:10 - 04:32)
- What a successful team turnaround actually looks like, including eight leaders in ten years and what changed (04:32 - 07:00)
- Servant leadership, why career le...
Shane Tews — Non-Resident Senior Fellow at AEI and the person who explained the internet to Capitol Hill
No Password Required Season 7: Episode 7 – Shane Tews
Shane Tews is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she focuses on cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence, and internet governance. She is also President of Logan Circle Strategies, a strategic advisory firm working at t...
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Mudita Khurana — Tech Lead at Airbnb and the person who always says, “I got this”
No Password Required Season 7: Episode 6 - Mudita Khurana
Mudita Khurana is a Tech Lead for Automated Tooling and Vulnerability Management at Airbnb, where she focuses on building modular, scalable security systems in an era of rapidly evolving AI threats. Before Airbnb, she spent nearly a decade in security rol...
Madeline Sedgwick — Cyber Threat Analyst at Palo Alto Networks and a DUUUUVALLL lifer
No Password Required Season 7: Episode 5 – Madeline Sedgwick
Madeline Sedgwick is a Cyber threat Researcher and Threat Analyst at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, specializing in nation-state cyber activity, covert infrastructure, and cyber intelligence analysis. Before entering the private sector, she spent six years in the U....
No Password Required: No Password Required: Next Gen - Ep. 2 - Tim Kircher
From Freshman Stress to Cyber Success: Formula 1, Pickleball, and hacking in Real life
In this episode of No Password Required: Next Gen, Yazzel Corona interviews Tim Kircher, a cybersecurity student at USF and member of the Security Operations Center Apprenticeship Program at Cyber Florida. Tim shares how his fascination with technology first sparked ...
Fagan Afandiyev — Elite Cybersecurity Competitor and Legendary Whitehatter
No Password Required: Breakout Room: Episode 1 — Fagan Afandiyev
Fagan Afandiyev is a cybersecurity student at the University of South Florida and a member of the CyberHerd competition team, known for his strategic mindset and passion for solving complex challenges. From competing in international robotics competitions to discovering cybersecurit...
Cynthia Wyre —Project Manager at Rapid7 and the Queen of Cyber Media
No Password Required Season 7: Episode 4 - Cynthia Wyre
Cynthia Wyre is a Senior Strategic Engagement Project Manager at Rapid7, where she helps connect academic research and industry. Her path into cybersecurity innovation was untraditional, moving from healthcare and construction project management into vulnerabili...
Madhav Nakar — AI Security Researcher and Documentarian of Spirituality and Play
No Password Required Season 7: Episode 3 - Madhav Nakar
Madhav Nakar is a Security Researcher at BeyondTrust specializing in identity threats, endpoint security, and cloud attack paths. With a background in theoretical mathematics, his current research focuses on analyzing attacker behavior&nb...
No Password Required: Next Gen – Ep. 1 - Michelle McAveety
Michelle McAveety- Cyber Competitions, Crowd Surfing & Main-Character Energy
Welcome to our new spinoff series, No Password Required: Next Generation. Where we go behind the scenes and interview up-and-coming young professionals in cybersecurity!
Whether you’re trying to figure out your career path, looking for a little inspiration, or just want to hav...
Sue Serna - Social Media Security and Governance Leader and Lover of All Beagles
No Password Required Season 7: Episode 2 - Sue Serna
Sue Serna is the CEO and Founder of Serna Social and the former head of global social media at Cargill. She brings more than two decades of experience at the intersection of storytelling, strategy, and security.
In this episode, she shares her journey from business reporter to leading her own consultanc...
Rob Hughes — CISO at RSA and Champion of a Passwordless Future
No Password Required Season 7: Episode 1 - Rob Hughes
Rob Hughes, the CISO at RSA, has more than 25 years of experience leading security and cloud infrastructure teams. In this episode, he reflects on his unconventional career path, from co-founding the original Geek.com and serving as its Chief Technologist during the early days of the internet, to leading se...
Gina Yacone — Virtual CISO at Trace3 and Roller Derby Penalty Box Visitor
Live from B-Sides Jacksonville, No Password Required welcomes Gina Yacone, Virtual CISO at Trace3. Jack Clabby of Carlton Fields, P.A. and Sarina Gandy, host and producer of the CyberBay Podcast, host a conversation on Gina’s unconventional career path, leadership under pressure, and the power of community in cybersecurity. With career stops in pri...
Danny Jenkins — Founder of ThreatLocker and the Zero-Trust Revolution
Danny Jenkins is the CEO of ThreatLocker, the leading cybersecurity company that he built alongside his wife. Hosts Jack Clabby of Carlton Fields, P.A., and Kayley Melton of the Cognitive Security Institute follow Danny’s journey from a scrappy IT consultant to leading one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies in the world.
Danny shares the mom...
Summary
In this episode of No Password Required, host Jack Clabby and Kayley Melton engage with Steve Orrin, the federal CTO at Intel, discussing the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the importance of diverse teams, and the intersection of technology and security. Steve shares insights from his extensive career, including his experiences in the startup scene, the significance of AI and IoT, and the critical blind spots in cybers...
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