Costin Raiu has been with Kaspersky since 2000, initially as the Chief Security Expert overseeing research efforts in the EEMEA region. In 2010, he became Director of our Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT). During his tenure at Kaspersky, he has spearheaded the company’s research on some of the most infamous cyber threat campaigns in recent memory, from the highly destructive computer worm Stuxnet to the Dukes advanced persistent threat which targeted the White House and the US Department of State in 2014, as believed. In our interview with Costin, he spoke about the job of a security researcher, its challenges and advantages, and offered some advice for newcomers to cybersecurity.
How did you start your career in cybersecurity?
I probably got into cybersecurity by accident. It was the early 90s, when my high school’s network was infected by a computer virus, a very nasty one called BadSectors. Unfortunately, none of the antivirus products that were available back then were actually able to clean the virus, so the teachers who knew I had some experience with computers asked me if I could write an antivirus for it. That’s how I wrote my first antivirus, and from that moment on, more and more people asked if I could write them a custom solution for their problems. And slowly, this turned into a more capable antivirus product. That’s how I got into computer security.
What makes research successful?
I guess, it should be something groundbreaking or otherwise special, something new that’s never been discussed before and has the potential to impact a lot of users and other people. Th ..
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