Pen Testing Yourself with Paula Januszkiewicz

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Can you pen test yourself? Paula Januszkiewicz says yes! Richard talks to Paula about taking an active role in understanding your organization's security vulnerabilities. Paula talks about the low-hanging fruit she often finds as a professional penetration tester - typically on poorly maintained infrastructure like PKI servers. The conversation digs into tooling you can use to find vulnerabilities - just make sure you trust the source of those tools. Not everyone is a good guy in open source! And, of course, there's always a time to bring in professionals to do a deeper level of testing. Don't wait until the breach happens to take some action!

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Recorded August 22, 2024

Paula Januszkiewicz is the Founder and CEO of CQURE Inc. and CQURE Academy, which she established back in 2008. 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, Paula graduated from Harvard Business School. She delivers keynotes at the biggest world conferences such RSA, Black Hat, SecTor Canada, AISA, GISEC, GITEX, LEAP, and many others. She was rated No. 1 speaker at Microsoft Ignite (among 1,100 speakers at a conference with 26,000 attendees) and Black Hat Asia 2019. Paula is known for her unique stage presence that is always well-received among diverse audiences, often gathering thousands of people! Paula has over 18 years of experience in the cybersecurity field, performing penetration tests, architecture consulting, trainings, and seminars. Every year, she takes over 215 flights to provide cybersecurity services for CQURE's Customers. Paula, together with her Team, also creates security awareness programs for various organizations, including awareness sessions for top management. Paula is a member of the Technical Advisory Board at the Royal Bank of Scotland/Natwest. And to top it all off, she has access to the source code of Windows!

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