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Paula Januszkiewicz Business Profile

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Paula Januszkiewicz – Business Profile

Founder and CEO of CQURE

Paula Januszkiewicz is a CEO and Founder of CQURE Inc. and CQURE

Academy. She is also Enterprise Security MVP, honorable Microsoft

Regional Director for CEE and a world class cybersecurity expert,

consulting Customers all around the world. In 2017, she graduated from

Harvard Business School. She has her heart and soul in the company,

having deep belief that positive thinking is the key to success. Her quality-

driven approach, extreme attention to details and conference speaking

publicity have brought CQURE, at its early stage, to the never-ending

world of hacks, forensics, data theft and other security challenges. Paula

established CQURE in 2008 and since then she has continued to build the team’s professional image and

cybersecurity skills, currently owning and managing CQURE departments in New York (US), Dubai (UAE)

and Zug (Switzerland), additionally to headquarters in Warsaw (Poland). Currently, CQURE Team’s

exceptional quality, unique cybersecurity knowledge, great experience as well as excellent skills are in

high demand on the enterprise market.

Paula has 15 years of experience in the cybersecurity field, performing penetration tests, architecture

consulting, trainings and seminars. She has performed hundreds of security projects, including those for

governmental organizations and big enterprises, at the same time being a top speaker and a keynote

speaker at many well-known conferences, including Microsoft Ignite (rated No 1 Speaker among 1100

speakers at a conference with 26000 attendees), RSA (in 2017 in San Francisco her session was one of the

5 hottest sessions), Black Hat, TechEd North America, TechEd Europe, TechEd Middle East, CyberCrime

etc., where she is often rated as No 1 speaker. Her presentations gather thousands of people. In 2019,

Paula’s presentation was voted best of Black Hat Asia 2019 Briefings!

She also creates security awareness programs for various organizations, including awareness sessions for

top management (telecoms, banks, government etc.). She is passionate about sharing her knowledge

with others. In private, she enjoys working with her research team, converting the results of her findings

to authored leading-edge trainings and tools used in practice in projects. She wrote a book about Threat

Management Gateway and she’s currently working on the next one… so stay tuned for more. Recently,

Paula has become a member of the Technical Advisory Board at Royal Bank of Scotland - helping to

keep its security at the highest level possible!

She was granted access to a source code of Windows, an honor that just a few people around the world

have! Paula is a type that suffers, when doing nothing – every year she takes over 215 flights to provide

security services to international organizations and enterprises. You can always expect some thoughtful

ideas and interesting arguments!

Paula delivers training on:

Security, Operating Systems, Windows Internals, Internet Information Services, Public Key Infrastructure,

Active Directory, Powershell and several other Microsoft Technologies.

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Highest Level Certifications:

Microsoft Regional Director, Enterprise Security MVP, certified trainer (MCT) and Microsoft Security

Trusted Advisor, CQURE Academy Security Master, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

About CQURE and CQURE Academy:

CQURE is a provider of specialized cybersecurity services such as securing IT resources, advanced and

customized penetration tests, forensics, controlled cybersecurity attacks, security awareness programs,

sessions for organizations and top management, IT infrastructure security consulting and other advisory

services. CQURE’s Customers range from global corporations to small companies. For large and medium

companies CQURE usually offers authorship training packs, detailed audits, high quality penetration

testing services and custom consulting. For smaller companies CQURE offers high quality penetration

testing services, trainings concerning specific functionality, consultancy and security implementations.

CQURE is divided into two chapters: CQURE Consulting and CQURE Academy. CQURE Academy is a

security training program, providing certification to specialists. It consists of over high-quality 40 technical

trainings. In October 2016 CQURE has successfully launched online and subscription-based training.

CQURE consultants speak at the international events and they become No 1 speaker. CQURE Academy

also involves R&D – that is why CQURE Team is recognizable in the cybersecurity field.

Paula’s activities in public

Most important and interesting conference engagements with total number of people that saw sessions:

• Black Hat Asia 2019 – Briefings and Arsenal Speaker

• RSA USA 2019 – Keynote Speaker

• Black Hat Europe 2018 – Arsenal Speaker

• It-sa 2018 – Special Keynote Speaker

• Techdays Sweden

• Microsoft Ignite 2018 – audience of ~4000 people and title of MS Ignite Community Reporter!

• Black Hat USA 2018

• RSA Asia Pacific & Japan 2018

• Gartner Security Summit Dubai 2018

• Techdays Sweden 2018

• devSec Conference, Germany 2018 – Keynote Speaker

• AppManagEvent Netherlands 2018 – Keynote Speaker

• IT Security Expo and Congress it-sa Germany 2018 – Keynote Speaker

• Central Ohio Infosec Summit – Keynote Speaker

• RSA USA 2018

• Microsoft Techdays Finland 2018 – Keynote Speaker

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• Nordic Infrastructure Conference 2018 - The Best Speaker! ☺

• RSA Abu Dhabi 2017

• Black Hat London 2017 – Arsenal Speaker

• Microsoft Ignite 2017, Orlando – audience of ~ 4000 people, Best PreDay Speaker! ☺

• Black Hat USA 2017, San Francisco – Arsenal Speaker

• RSA Conference USA 2017, San Francisco – audience of ~1200 people, top 5 speakers

• Nordic Infrastructure Conference 2017 – each session saw ~400 people

• Microsoft TechDays Sweden 2016 – each session saw ~400 people – top 5 speakers

• Microsoft Ignite 2016, Atlanta – Keynote Speaker

• DSSITSEC2016 – October – Riga, Latvia – Keynote Speaker

• Support Services Conference – UK – Keynote Speaker

• Microsoft Ignite 2015, Chicago – The Best Speaker! ☺

• ExpertDay 2015, Zurich – Keynote Speaker

• TechFuse 2015, Minnesota – Keynote Speaker also the Best Speaker

• Microsoft Technology Summit – Keynote Speaker, Special Guest

• MSNetwork 5 Bosnia – Keynote Speaker

• IT Camp 2015 – Keynote Speaker

• UTMessan 2015, Iceland – session saw ~500 people – The Best Speaker

• Nordic Infrastructure Conference 2015 – each session saw ~500 people – top 3 speakers

• Management Summit 2014 – Minnesota – session saw ~50 people – The Best Speaker

• Microsoft TechNet Conference 2014 – each session saw ~400 people – The Best Speaker

• Microsoft Summit 2014 in Romania – each session saw ~200 people – The Best Speaker

• Hacker Halted 2014 – Atlanta – keynote for 600 people

• Hackerfest 2014 – Prague – each session saw ~600 people – The Best Speaker + Finalizing

Keynote

• TechEd 2014 Europe – each session saw ~2000 people (4 sessions) - top 10 speakers (first in the

Security track)

• TechEd 2014, USA – each session saw ~2000 people (4 sessions) – top 10 speakers

• Microsoft NT Konferenca 2014, Slovenia – The Best Speaker

• Microsoft WinDays14, Croatia – The Best Speaker

• UTmessan 2014, Iceland – The Best Speaker

• TechNet Conference 2013, Berlin, Germany – The Best Speaker

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• TechDays Estonia 2013 – The Best Speaker

• Microsoft Technology Summit, Warsaw, Poland – 2nd place (3000 session attendees)

• TechEd North America 2013 – top 10 (5000 session attendees)

• TechEd Europe 2013 – 4th place (3000 session attendees)

• TechEd North America 2013 (3000 people) – speaker

• TechFuse 2013 – 1st and 2nd place as a speaker (around 30 speakers)

• TechDays Netherlands (500 people) – 1st place

• TechDays Belgium (500 people) – 1st place

• Teched North America 2012 (top 10), each session saw ~2000 people (3 sessions)

• TechEd Europe 2012 (3rd place as a speaker), each session saw ~2000 people (3 sessions)

• TechFuse 2012 – 1st and 2nd place as a speaker (around 40 speakers)

• Microsoft Technolgy Summit – 1st and 2nd place as a speaker (one session 300 people, another

2000)

• TechDays 2012 – Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius – in each edition I was 1st speaker (3x200 people)

• 2012 Cyber Crime Conference (60 people – government and security related attendees)

• TechDays Belgium 2012 (500 people) – 3rd place

• CyberCrime Security Forum 2011 (100 people)

• TechEd Middle East 2011 (500 people) – 3rd place as a speaker

• TechEd North America 2011 (4000 people) – (top 10)

• TechDay Baltics 2011 (200 people) – 1st place in each country

• Microsoft Vizija 2011 (600 people) – 1st place

• Microsoft Synergija 2011 (300 people) – 1st place

• IT Camp 2011 Romania (300 people) – 1st place and 2nd place

• MCT Summit 2011 (250 people) – 1st place

• RSA China 2011 (3000 people) – 1st place as a speaker

• TechEd Russia 2011 (1000 people) – (top 10)

• Security Day Iceland 2011 (500 people) – 1st place

• Security Event Tallinn 2011 (100 people)

• Security Event Riga 2011 (100 people)

• Security Event Vilnius 2011 (100 people)

• BiznisDan Serbia 2011 (100 people) – 1st place

• ICE Lingen 2011 Germany (200 people) – 1st place

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• Teched North America 2010 (3000 people) – 2nd place as a speaker

• TechEd Europe 2010 (1000 people)

• TechDays the Netherlands (500 people) – 1st place

• Microsoft Vizija 2010 (600 people) – 1st place

• MCT Summit 2010 (200 people) – 3rd place

• Teched North America 2009 (600 people)



• IDC IT Security Summit 2018 – The Best Speaker

And a lot of worldwide events and seminars organized by Microsoft Partners.

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Some of Paula’s the interesting international security projects

in the past Season

Sector Type of service Scope Date

Private Sector Penetration tests of the whole infrastructure All systems incl. critical

solutions 2017

Pharmaceutical Private Sector Private Sector 2017

Government Web Application Web Application penetration

test 2017

Finance Penetration tests of the whole infrastructure

All systems incl. critical

solutions; Employees’

awareness

2017

Private Sector Private Sector Private Sector 2017

Finance Penetration tests of the whole infrastructure and

social engineering tests



awareness

2017

Fuel sector (half

governmental,

half private)

Penetration tests of the whole infrastructure All systems incl. critical

solutions 2017

Government Penetration tests and security policy planning


solutions; Building security

policy for the whole

organization

2017

Military Penetration tests of the selected sector and IPS

analysis Classified 2016/2017

Government Penetration tests of the whole infrastructure All systems incl. critical

solutions 2016

Medical Penetration tests of the whole infrastructure and



solutions Employees’

awareness

2016


solutions 2016

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Military Penetration tests of part of the infrastructure All systems incl. critical

solutions 2016

Military Penetration tests of the selected sector and IPS

analysis Classified 2016

Hospital Penetration tests of the whole infrastructure and




awareness

2016


solutions 2016

Private Penetration tests of the whole infrastructure All systems incl. critical

solutions 2016

Factory Penetration tests of the whole infrastructure All systems incl. critical

solutions 2016

Government Penetration tests and security policy planning


solutions; Building security

policy for the whole

organization

2016

Government Penetration tests of the whole infrastructure Emergency hotlines (system

for hospitals) 2016

Military Malware and attack pattern analysis Classified 2016

Upon request we can deliver information about past projects.

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