Mikko Hyppönen has been a figure in cybersecurity since the late 1980s, before the term "malware" even existed. He has analyzed a plethora of various malwares, such as the Form virus that infected computers with floppy disks in the early 1990s, as well as the infamous ILOVEYOU virus. As a Finnish citizen, Hyppönen became interested in drone security due to the hostility occurring in the border between Finland and Russia. He applies valuable skills he learned from detecting malware to locate and jam drones by recognizing the frequencies used to control them, allowing him to repurpose his past experience fighting cyber attacks for a new obective.