Melissa McRee's work in security analytics started with a small nonprofit in Washington, DC, where she got hooked on using original data to map illicit human networks. This path led to the Department of Defense, where she directly supported national level military intelligence and kinetic operations, and discovered the value of combining ground-level insights with the capability to collect and interpret their digital reflections. She decided to stop spending so much time in windowless rooms in 2018, and immersed herself in the commercial digital security space with Shape Security, which became a unicorn in 2020. Her most recent areas of focus while leading the Threat Analytics & Reporting team include the use of automation for scaling malicious activities across diverse use cases, attacker patterns of behavior and incentives, and how to effectively leverage terabytes of signals data at a time to find stories worth telling.