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
- Mateusz Gierblinski is credited on two CVEs published one day apart. CVE-2026-70007 in the .NET Framework. CVE-2026-93479 in NGINX, the software in front of a large share of the world’s websites. Including, most likely, some of yours. The NGINX flaw is simple to trigger. One plain web request, stuffed with a long string of the letter A, knocks the server offline. Under certain conditions it runs code on it. No login needed. Severity 9.2 out of 10. He found it in code that had already been patched in July. Fixed now, in 1.30.6 and
- Curios has been selected for CYSSDE, the EU program that funds penetration testing across Europe. The idea behind CYSSDE is simple. NIS2 now expects essential and important entities to prove they are resilient. Many of them, and the SMEs that supply them, have never had a real attacker look at their systems. So the European Commission, through the Digital Europe Program, selects the firms allowed to deliver penetration tests. 🔍Selection is on capability, not size. The committee looks at offensive expertise, proven methodology and
- 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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