Identity Defenses: How Attackers Exploit Privilege Gaps & How to Build a Layered Defense

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About the Session

Privileged access remains one of the most valuable targets for cybercriminals, yet many organizations still rely on fragmented security strategies that fail to fully protect endpoints, cloud environments, SaaS applications, and third-party access. These gaps create hidden attack paths, allowing adversaries to escalate privileges, move laterally, and execute full-scale breaches before security teams can detect them.

In this webinar, renowned cybersecurity expert Paula Januszkiewicz takes you inside the mind of an attacker, demonstrating real-world privilege escalation techniques that exploit weaknesses in traditional least privilege approaches. You’ll see how seemingly minor misconfigurations can be leveraged for privilege abuse, ransomware attacks, and identity-based breaches — and, more importantly, how to prevent them.

Watch to learn how a Defense in Depth strategy, built on least privilege enforcement, just-in-time access, and continuous monitoring, helps organizations eliminate privilege gaps, reduce risk, and proactively stop attackers before they can escalate.

Meet the Speakers

Paula Januszkiewicz

CEO and Founder of CQURE, Microsoft MVP and RD, Cybersecurity expert

Paula Januszkiewicz is the Founder and CEO of CQURE and CQURE Academy, which she established back in 2008. She is also an Enterprise Security MVP, honorable Microsoft Regional Director, and a world-class cybersecurity expert, consulting Customers worldwide. In 2017, Paula graduated from Harvard Business School. She delivers keynotes and sessions at the biggest world conferences such as RSA, Black Hat, Microsoft Ignite, SecTor Canada, Australian Cyber Conference, GISEC, GITEX, LEAP, and many others. She is often a top-rated speaker, including being chosen the No. 1 Speaker at Microsoft Ignite (among 1,100 speakers at a conference with 26,000 attendees) and at Black Hat Asia 2019. At the RSA Conference, two of her sessions were among the top 5 best rated. Paula is known for her unique stage presence that is always well-received among diverse audiences, often gathering thousands of people!

Paula has over 19 years of experience in the cybersecurity field, performing penetration tests, architecture consulting, trainings, and seminars. Every year, she takes over 200 flights to provide cybersecurity services for CQURE’s Customers. Paula and her Team also design security awareness programs for various organizations, including awareness sessions for top management. Together, they create various security tools (CQTools) supporting penetration tests, incident response, and forensics, which are shared with the community. 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!