No Password Required

No Password Required Episode 71 features Cynthia Weier at Cyber Bay 2026 in Tampa, Florida, with Jack Klabe and Kaylee Melton recording from the ThreatLocker podcast studio beside a capture-the-flag table.

No Password Required Episode 70 with Madhav Nekar centers on AI-agent security, ServiceNow privilege paths, and the case for defensive AI.

Host Yazelle interviews Michelle McAveety, a student and team captain of the USF Cyber Herd cybersecurity competition team, about her experiences and interests.

No Password Required Episode 69 with Sue Cerna focuses on enterprise social media governance, account ownership, and the risk of hackers getting in through social accounts.

Rob Hughes, Chief Information Security Officer at RSA, explains why passwordless adoption is advancing through FIDO passkeys, smartphone biometrics, and enterprise efforts to reduce identity silos.

["Gina Yacone tells No Password Required at B-Sides Jacksonville that her cyber career started after 14 years as a private investigator at a Tampa law firm, where she learned digital forensics, witness work, and chain of custody.", "A recruiter pushed her toward security, and she says women were about 2% of the field when she started studying Security+.", "She describes living in burnout, working seven days a week, and using walks, the gym, and ChatGPT to turn ideas into memos and project plans.", "The episode closes on leadership, mentorship, and lifestyle-polygraph stories about roller derby, shark research, ACDC, and John Wick."]

No Password Required Episode 66 features ThreatLocker CEO and co-founder Danny Jenkins describing the ransomware recovery that led him to build a default-deny security company.

No Password Required Episode 65 features Steve Warren, Intel's Federal Chief Technologist, explaining how commercial technology is adapted for U.S.

DeMarcus Williams, a senior security engineer at Starbucks, describes a role spanning global red-team operations, open store Wi-Fi, cloud systems, physical locations, and devices deployed in drive-throughs.

John Shipp, Rapid7's inorganic growth strategist, explains how customer research, attacker trends, economics, and internal expertise shape build-versus-buy decisions over three to four months.

Kurt Sanger, an attorney at Buchanan Ingersoll and Rooney with more than 20 years in the Marines and eight years at U.S.

Kathy Collins describes moving from an AOL help-desk job to 20 years of cooking, then entering cybersecurity through a six-month Fullstack bootcamp during COVID.

Reginald Andre explains how a $30,000 CompUSA installation in 2002 led from English-teacher studies to Arc Solvers, a South Florida cybersecurity and AI consultancy.

Mariana Padilla, co-founder and CEO of Hackerverse AI, describes failure as an experience that produces learning rather than an outcome that deserves prolonged self-criticism.

Trevor Hillegoss, a former Army Criminal Investigation Division special agent and current SpyCloud Labs leader, describes moving from general crimes and digital forensics into cyber threat intelligence.

No Password Required Episode 57 features Rob Allen, Threat Locker’s Chief Product Officer, discussing his path from an Irish IT engineer to cybersecurity product leadership and large conference presentations.

Host Jack Clavie and co-host Tasha Dinos interview Joey Davila about AI taking over legal roles and other cybersecurity topics.

Hosts interview an FBI special agent about his career in cybersecurity and public education.

Hosts Ernie Ferrareso and Jack Clabby introduce guest Hannah Suter, a Senior Product Manager at GitLab and digital privacy advocate, to discuss cybersecurity topics.

Hosts introduce a cybersecurity podcast and discuss upcoming interview with a pen tester, then briefly mention UK ICO action against TikTok.

Hosts discuss a recent Neopets data breach and introduce guest Kaylee Melton, VP of security awareness training.