Inside of the Cisco Talos Threat Intelligence group is a team of dedicated research engineers that have a dual mission: sharing threat information with external partners and proactively hunting adversaries. In the last year, Talos has investigated several high impact campaigns in the public domain such as. Nyteya, VPNFilter, and Olympic Destroyer. While you might have heard talks about these prominent investigations, this talk will focus on our daily operations and several of the lesser know investigations. We will outline how new campaigns were discovered, funny anecdotes, mistakes made along the way and uncomfortable truths about the business. This talk is the behind the scenes look at the people, politics, and drama of threat intelligence at a global scale.