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Visit Kiteworks.com to get started. Hello. Hello and thanks for joining us. In today's Solution Spotlight Special Edition, Mary

Haig, Global Cesso of BAE Systems, speaks with N2K's Simone Petrilla about moving beyond the technical

to build a by Dr. Mary, Heng, the Global SESO of BAE Systems.

Mary, thank you so much for being with us today.

No, it's a pleasure to be here.

Just to broadly start off, because I think it's incredibly interesting to our listeners and I know I did a little bit of research about you.

Can you tell us a little bit about your journey into cybersecurity and being a CESO because I think like many it is not what we typically expect.

Yes, if there is a typical journey here.

So I started life as a semiconductor physicist working on military thermal cameras of all things and then went into

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