Gotham Sharma is a cybersecurity consultant, writer, educator, and stand-up comic. He’s on a mission to help folks build successful careers in information security through his latest venture, AccessCyber.co. In his training, Gotham leverages humor to make security awareness and education relatable to audiences of various technical backgrounds. Inspired by satire publications like The Onion, Gotham recently launched an infosec magazine called Brute Farce Attack, one of the many projects on his growing list of side hustles. In this episode of No Password Required, Gotham joins Carlton Fields’s Jack Clabby and KnowBe4’s Kayley Melton to share how his life changed after a well-intentioned anti-mentor inspired him. Jack and Kayley discuss IARPA’s plan to hack hackers’ brains as the agency considers reimagining security with cyberpsychology-informed network defenses.