Overview
Bart Van Dongen is the CEO of Curios, a role he has held since November 2017. He is based in Antwerp.
Before taking up that role, he spent five years at Metastore, where he worked in security sales from September 2012 to May 2014 and then as Security Service Manager from June 2014 to October 2017.
He studied Applied Economics at the University of Antwerp between 2006 and 2012, and completed a bachelor's degree in applied economics, business and managerial economics at the University of Warsaw in 2012. His stated areas of expertise are security, security strategy, risk management, business strategy and team leadership.
Career history
In the news
- Ondertussen acht jaar werkt het Curios team van senior security consultants aan de veiligheid van verschillende industrieleiders. En 2027 wordt het jaar waarin we een versnelling hoger schakelen. Dus bouwen we het team uit met drie profielen, in vaste dienst: Sales. Iemand die security begrijpt, het gesprek met een CISO durft aan te gaan en samen met mij de volgende klanten binnenhaalt. Security engineers. Mensen die infrastructuur en identity niet alleen kunnen uitleggen, maar ook beveiligen bij de klant. Offensieve specialisten.
- Microsoft patched CVE-2026-70324 yesterday. Mateusz Gierblinski found it. A SharePoint elevation of privilege bug, rated Important. One of 394 fixes in this month's Patch Tuesday. The acknowledgement reads: Mateusz Gierblinski, with Curios. At Curios, Mateusz is our senior information security engineer. Inside the team he is the one who reviews the hard findings and quietly raises the bar for everyone else. Me included. I cannot do what he does. My job is making sure he can keep doing it, and finding him colleagues who match.
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