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The CyberWire Daily is celebrating its 10-year anniversary this year.

And in honor of that big milestone, we're releasing monthly special edition episodes

throughout 2026. Today's N2K CyberWire special edition kicks off our 10-year anniversary series,

with a big picture look at the CyberWire Daily itself. And for more on the show and how it all began,

I sat down with Dave Bittner,

host of the CyberWire Daily,

and Peter Kilby, CEO of N2K Networks.

I would say that basically my path, you know, working, doing the creative work, user experience, design work in the intelligence community as a contractor, set me on that path.

That was my first exposure to cybersecurity more broadly, and that was actually in a more in-depth kind of way.

And I ended up working for a stream of companies doing these kinds of things.

For one of the companies, a security company in Baltimore, we ended up building, creating a

newsletter for ourselves, all about cybersecurity, helping educate our own employees on what's going on inside the security world.

A number of people kept telling us how great our little internal intelligence newsletter was, and we should share it with the world.

So we did.

And we ultimately built a

cybersecurity newsletter product that was read

in almost every country.

Probably only two readers in Madagascar,

but really we hit.

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