Researcher Spotlight: How David Liebenberg went from never having opened Terminal to hunting international APTs

When Dave Liebenberg started his first day at Talos, he had never even opened Terminal on a Mac before — let alone written a Snort rule or infiltrated a dark web forum.

He jokes that he was a trendsetter at Talos, becoming the first of many to break into security without having any prior cybersecurity experience. (For example, his teammate, Azim Khodjibaev, would be hired a few years after him after spending most of his career working on real-world military …

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