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SHIFT Dubai 2026 brought together some of the brightest minds in cybersecurity to discuss the future of cyber resilience, recovery, and defense at scale.

We are proud that our CEO, Paula Januszkiewicz, took the stage with her keynote: “The Next Era of Cyber Defense: Clarity, Control, and Response at Scale”, sharing practical insights on navigating today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape.

It was an honor to be part of a distinguished lineup alongside Mohammed Aziz, H.E. Dr. Mohamed AlKuwaiti, Fady Richmany, Yahya Kassab, Ravi Baldev, Michael Murphy, Ahmed Khairy, Bassam Hemdan, Hazem AbuShaban, Mohamed Elgalad, Dr. Ahmed Alketbi, Shady Hajjar, and Hadi Anwar.

Thank you to Commvault for the invitation and for organizing such a fantastic event! A special thanks to: Lena Halbourian, Daria Wosztyl, Anna Rydel, Beata Tokarska, Przemek Mazurkiewicz, and Janusz Mierzejewski for all your support. We truly appreciate working with you and look forward to many more successful initiatives together.

📸 Photos by Ahmed Khairy, Cloud & AI Director at Microsoft.

🚨 New Resource for Threat Hunters 🚨

We've put together a comprehensive guide:
📘 Threat Hunting: Top 20 KQL Queries You Must Implement

Inside you'll find 20 practical hunting queries covering:
✅ Identity & Credential Attacks
✅ Endpoint & Hands-on-Keyboard Activity
✅ Defense Evasion & Persistence
✅ Cloud, SaaS & Data Exfiltration
✅ Network & Cross-Domain Anomalies

Want the full guide?

Register for our free live webinar hosted by Paula Januszkiewicz (CEO, Cybersecurity Expert & Red Teamer, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, MCT) and Amr Thabet (Cybersecurity Expert, Malware Researcher):

🎯 Modern Threat Hunting with AI: 10 Skills for Detecting What Others Miss

🔗 https://cqureacademy.com/webinar-modern-threat-hunting-with-ai-10-skills-for-detecting-what-others-miss/

As a registered attendee, you'll receive the complete PDF with TOP 20 KQL queries to use for hunting, directly in your inbox.

Already registered? Check your inbox - you should have already received both:
📘 The full PDF guide
🎥 Your Zoom link for the webinar
(If you can't find the email, please check your spam or junk folder.)

See you at the webinar!

Looking to improve your and become more effective at ?

In this episode, we walk through 8 essential that every and should keep in their toolkit. Whether you're working with , , or other environments that leverage ( ), these practical, reusable will help you detect threats faster and spend less time writing queries from scratch.

You'll learn how to:
✅ Establish daily
✅ Identify top attack sources
✅ Detect failed authentication patterns
✅ Spot port scanning activity
✅ Hunt for command-and-control traffic
✅ Find
✅ Analyze suspicious
✅ Monitor communicating externally

These queries are designed to help you move from reactive monitoring to and .

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CQURE Hacks #81: The Ultimate KQL Query Toolkit for Threat Hunters and Security Analysts Discover 8 essential KQL queries for Microsoft Sentinel and Defender. Improve threat hunting, detect attacks faster, and streamline investigations.

Yesterday's Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit 2026 in Warsaw, Poland, was amazing!

It was a pleasure to share insights, connect with the community, and see so many people attending Paula Januszkiewicz's keynote session.

The event brought together an incredible lineup of inspiring leaders and experts, including Dr. Bianka Siwińska, Andrzej Dragan, Karolina Zioło-Pużuk, Maria Mrówczyńska, Paulina Piechna-Więckiewicz, Anita Sowińska, Agnieszka Jankowska, Marta Kosior-Kazberuk, Danuta Zawadzka, Bogumiła Kaniewska, Barbara Jankowska, Maia Mazurkiewicz, Justyna Osuch-Mallett, Susana Mira Leal, Sylwia Spurek, Oyundari Navaan-Yunden, Koviljka Špirić, Sandra América Noriega Urízar de Kugler, Violeta Agrici, Aleksandra Hamryszak, Caro Paduch, Katarzyna Majewska, Hanna Ziarkowska, Yuliia Shtukaturova, Magdalena Chudzikiewicz, Chada El Islam Benmahcene, Nilofar Ayoubi, Małgorzata Mroczkowska-Horne, Natalia Klima-Piotrowska, and many more.

Want to learn more from Paula live? Join Paula Januszkiewicz and Amr Thabet for our upcoming free webinar:

🔍 Modern Threat Hunting with AI: 10 Skills for Detecting What Others Miss

👉 https://cqureacademy.com/webinar-modern-threat-hunting-with-ai-10-skills-for-detecting-what-others-miss/

We look forward to seeing you there!

We’re proud to see Paula Januszkiewicz, CEO & Founder of CQURE, joining the European Summit of Women Leaders in Science & Tech in Warsaw as a keynote speaker.

The summit brings together outstanding leaders, innovators, researchers, and technology experts from across Europe and beyond to exchange ideas, share experiences, and discuss the future of science, technology, cybersecurity, and innovation.

During Paula’s keynote, “World Threat Adventures: Where Hackers Hide and Investigators Hunt,” she will take the audience behind the scenes of real-world cyber investigations, exploring topics such as Active Directory attacks, cloud persistence, advanced persistence techniques, and modern digital forensics.

Among the inspiring leaders participating in the event are Anna Chrobok, Agnieszka Maciejewska-Skrendo, Katarzyna Halicka, Jolanta Szempruch, Klaudia Kloc, Katarzyna Socha, Magdalena Markowska, Ewa Gruszczyńska, Joanna Tkaczyk, María Dolores Higuera González, Dorota Anna Krawczyk, Karolina Linda, Kinga Lewicka, Alicja Tatarczuk, Beata Kisielewska, Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Ewa Kubín, Martyna Mrozek, Tamilla Triantoro, Agnieszka Pollo, Ala Saleh Alluhaidan, Estera Kot, Jolanta Żyśko, Kasia Piasecki, Katarzyna Komulainen, Anna Kluczek-Kollár, Anna Kieszkowska-Grudny, and many others.

We’re looking forward to inspiring conversations, valuable connections, and an event filled with knowledge sharing and new perspectives.

Learn more here: https://womenintechsummit.pl/agenda/event/world-threat-adventures-where-hackers-hide-and-investigators-hunt

See you in Warsaw on June 11!

Perspektywy Women in Tech

AI is transforming cybersecurity, but are you using it effectively for threat hunting?

Join Paula Januszkiewicz (CEO of CQURE, & , , , ) and Amr Thabet (Cybersecurity Expert, , and author of "Mastering ") for our FREE LIVE webinar:

🎯 Modern Threat Hunting with AI: 10 Skills for Detecting What Others Miss

Discover practical threat hunting techniques, real-world attack scenarios, and how AI can help uncover hidden threats that traditional approaches often miss.

📅 June 16
🎟️ Free registration:
https://cqureacademy.com/webinar-modern-threat-hunting-with-ai-10-skills-for-detecting-what-others-miss/

WEBINAR - Modern Threat Hunting with AI: 10 Skills for Detecting What Others Miss - CQURE Academy Sign up for our free webinar series! Break out of the silos and see how Offense, Defense, and Cloud converge to stop advanced threats.

We’re proud to share that Paula Januszkiewicz’s session, “Forensic Adventures: Where Hackers Hide and Investigators Hunt,” was recognized as an RSAC 2026 Top-Rated Session!

Thank you to everyone who attended the session, engaged in the discussion, and shared their feedback. This recognition means a lot, and we're honored to see Paula’s work appreciated by the global cybersecurity community.

A special thank you to the RSAC Conference team for this recognition and for bringing together such an incredible community of cybersecurity professionals each year.

Congratulations, Paula!

At CQURE, we believe that knowledge sharing, and strong technical communities are essential to building a stronger cybersecurity industry, and Experts Live Netherlands 2026 was a fantastic place to do exactly that.

A huge thank you to the entire Experts Live Netherlands team, Maarten Goet, the speakers, partners, volunteers, and attendees who made this event such a success.

We were proud to have our CEO, Paula Januszkiewicz, deliver the keynote:

"The Next Era of Cyber Defense: Clarity, Control, and Response at Scale"

It was a pleasure for Paula to share the event with so many outstanding experts, including Sami Laiho, Morten Waltorp Knudsen, Tim Stock, Daniel Verlaan, Vaisha Bernard, Fabian Bader, Michael Niehaus, Justine Wolters, Barend Frans, Ken Goossens, Janneke Spiekerman, and many other brilliant professionals from across the Microsoft and cybersecurity community.

Thank you to everyone who attended Paula's keynote, shared insights, asked thoughtful questions, and contributed to the incredible atmosphere throughout the event.

It is always inspiring to see so many passionate professionals coming together to learn, exchange experiences, and shape the future of technology and cybersecurity.

The next opportunity to meet the CQURE Team in person will be at Black Hat Events USA 2026 in Las Vegas, where Paula Januszkiewicz, together with Marcin Krawczyk, Amr Thabet, and Richard Hicks, will deliver exclusive training sessions packed with practical, hands-on cybersecurity knowledge.

See you in Vegas!
https://cqu.re/bhat