Paula Januszkiewicz is a world-class cybersecurity expert, penetration tester, and enterprise security strategist who serves as the CEO and Founder of CQURE and CQURE Academy. Over her twenty-year career in the security domain, she has scaling CQURE from a localized Polish firm established in 2008 into a global power with active hubs in New York, Dubai, Warsaw, and Zug. A highly sought-after advisor for enterprise boards and governmental organizations, she actively serves on the Technical Advisory Board at NatWest/Royal Bank of Scotland, leveraging her deep operational insights to govern macroeconomic technological risks.
A graduate of the prestigious Harvard Business School (2017), Januszkiewicz stands as one of the few individuals worldwide granted authorized access to the Windows source code, providing her with an unparalleled understanding of operating system internals. Her outstanding technical depth and charismatic stage presence have earned her consistent top ratings at the world's largest technical conferences. She was named the No. 1 Speaker at Microsoft Ignite (beating out 1,100 presenters) and Black Hat Asia, and regularly dominates the top-voted slots at the RSA Conference, GITEX, and LEAP, captivating audiences of thousands with her trademark live-hacking demonstrations.