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Martin Lee: Running through the Arctic (and the threat landscape)

Summary: Martin Lee, EMEA Lead at Cisco Talos, describes moving from researching the genetics of human viruses into cybersecurity after discovering the early internet, then joining a company to write spam filters during the .com crash. He says that work led to detecting what turned out to be the first APT attacks, and he has been in the field for over 23 years.

Why it matters: Lee's path into security started with spam filters built before spam was a major problem, and the attacks those filters surfaced were the first APT campaigns - a reminder that the threats that define a decade are often first seen by people watching the mundane layer.

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