Program Committee
Ido Naor (Security Joes)
Ido is the CEO and Co-founder of Security Joes. He’s a world renowned researcher with vast knowledge in Incident Response, Malware Analysis & Red Teaming. Security Joes are a leading company in these areas, a cyber alliance for the state of Israel and a frequent responsible disclosure of in-the-wild cyberattacks. Ido is a former Kaspersky GReAT, McAfee Labs and Cisco. Aside from security Ido is a martial arts expert holding Dan 1 black belt in Kyokushin-Kai, book writer and a father of 3 daughters.
Gynvael Coldwind (Google)
(Krakow Edition ONLY)Programmer-enthusiast with passion for computer security and low-level aspects of computer science, also the author of numerous articles, publications, podcasts and presentations devoted to these topics.
In 2013 in Las Vegas he received (together with Mateusz Jurczyk) the Pwnie Award in the category "Most Innovative Research" in the field of computer security, granted for their paper titled: Identifying and Exploiting Windows Kernel Race Conditions via Memory Access Patterns. Captain and co-founder of "Dragon Sector" - one of the best teams of Security CTF in the world. Since 2010 he lives in Zurich, where he works for Google as Senior Software Engineer / Information Security Engineer.
Wojciech Dworakowski(SecuRing)
IT security consultant with over 10 years of experience in the field. OWASP Poland Chapter Leader and managing partner at SecuRing. Has led multiple security assessments and penetration tests especially in the sector of financial services and public institutions. A lecturer at many security conferences, e.g. AppSec EU, BSides London, SECURE, CONFidence, Security Audit and Management Forum. Main areas of interests include: financial systems security, malware prevention, threat modelling, security in development lifecycle.
Adam Haertle ( ZaufanaTrzeciaStrona.pl )
Until recently CSO of a large polish telecommunications company, currently editor in chief of an infosec portal, journalist, researcher, lecturer and trainer. Former ISACA Poland and CSA Poland Board member. Regular speaker at security-oriented conferences, big fan of security and privacy who does not always follow his own advice.
Mateusz "j00ru" Jurczyk(Google)
Mateusz is a co-founder of the Dragon Sector CTF team and a big fan of memory corruption. His main areas of interest are client software security, vulnerability exploitation and mitigation techniques, and delving into the darkest corners of low-level kernel internals with a very strong emphasis on Microsoft Windows. He currently works as a security engineer in the Project Zero team at Google.
Piotr Konieczny(niebezpiecznik.pl)
He has been helping the biggest Polish and foreign companies to secure networks and web services for 13 years. Graduate of Glasgow Caledonian University. He started working in the IT industry at the British department of Philips Electronics. Founder of Niebezpiecznik.pl, a consultancy company analyzing IT projects in terms of security.
As part of Niebezpiecznik.pl, Piotr manages a team performing audits and penetration tests of ICT systems, and conducts trainings for administrators and programmers in the field of computer network protection, as well as creation of secure web applications.
Artur Kuliński(Google)
Artur Kuliński joined the Google Cloud Customer Engineering team in April 2020. He has been professionally involved in the IT industry for over 20 years, during which he worked as a programmer, architect and manager of development teams. For over 10 years he has been working for the financial industry, both on the side of clients (including PZU, Aviva) and suppliers (including Oracle, Infovide-Matrix). Fascinated by cloud solutions, which he treats as the next, natural step in the evolution of IT. He graduated from the Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology of the Warsaw University of Technology and obtained an MBA from the Warsaw University of Technology Business School.
Adam Lange(Standard Chartered)
Adam is a Head of Cyber Threat Hunting Team in Global Cyber Defense Centre for one of the largest global financial institution. In spare time he hunts threat actors, doing malware analysis and coding security tools and systems. Adam has a over two decades of IT and IT Security experience at offensive (red) and defensive (blue) side. Frequent speaker at security related conferences such as Confidence, SECURE, Security bSides Warsaw and What The H@ck. Retro gaming and Demoscene fan.
Gaweł Mikołajczyk(Discovery Inc.)
Gawel is currently responsible for Cyber Security Incident Response at Discovery Inc.
Recently, for half a decade, he has been building, growing and running commercial Managed Detection and Response Security Operations Center organizations.
His experience includes establishing and overseeing Product Management, Business Partnerships, Project Management, Customer Onboarding, Engagement Management, Customer Success, SOC Architecture, Security Threat Analysis, Security Incident Response, Threat Detection, Technology Stack Platforms (on-premise and cloud), SIEM Platform Operations, Network Security Operations, Log Management, SOAR Platform and Software Development, Vulnerability Management and other relevant SOC functions.
He was responsible for building the SOC and Managed Detection and Response services portfolio from the ground up at Tieto / TietoEVRY 2017-2021.
Before that, 2015-2017, Gawel built Cisco Managed Security EMEAR Operations Centre (SOC) in Krakow, Poland, as well as running the SOC in Tokyo, Japan.
Earlier, he spent more than a decade in Architect, Security Consulting and Systems Engineering roles at Cisco.
He holds a collection of several dozen industry certificates, including CCIE #24987, CISSP-ISSAP, CISM, CISA. He has been speaking at conferences such as Cisco Live! Europe, Australia, PLNOG, EuroNOG, Security B-Sides, CONFidence, Cisco Connect, Cisco Expo and Cisco Forums on Security and Networking topics.
Michał Purzyński
Michal Purzynski works for the Incident Management and Digital Forensics groups at the Google’s Detection and Response organization.
Previously a leader of the Threat Management group at Mozilla, he has Seen Things, hunted threat actors and helped protect hundreds of millions of Firefox users.
One of his life’s goals is to make the bad guys' lives miserable. His ideal incident response is best described as “they didn’t even know what hit them”
Michal published some code for the Bro IDS, spun up Suricata above and beyond 40Gbit/sec and has been an active member of the NSM community sharing his findings at conferences.
Przemysław Skowron (White Cat Security)
Threat Hunter in global cyber security operations team for one of the largest global financial institution.
He has over a dozen years of experience as a member of offensive teams ("red team") and defensive ("blue team"). Advocate of learning different approaches and combining them - without clinging to one dogma (dogma <- Am God).
Hanna Tułowiecka(Krak White Hat)
From the beginning of her career she's been dealing with the development of telecommunications software (WCDMA, LTE) for one of the leading suppliers of products and services on the telecommunications market. She currently works in the area of IDAM security on ENM platform used by operators to manage mobile network.
Active participant and speaker at events and conferences (Security Bsides 2014, Secure 2015, Security Case Study 2016).
The initiator and organizer of the popular meetings on IT security in Krakow - Krak White Hat.