Data transmission over radio channels is reliable and commonly used method to communicate. Many means of public transportation relay on it but if you dig into its security there are a lot of things we would like to see improved. Radio communication is running over very special physical layer that means that everyone can listen to it and almost in every case everyone can interfere with it. Luckily there are only few geeks that know how to play with it! Airplanes communication with control towers is not encrypted, trains communicate on selected channels but traffic is not encrypted as well. There are already known cases when some kids decided to change tracks, several catastrophes have already happened… Come and see what nowadays radio communication is about!

Bio: Paula Januszkiewicz is the IT Security Auditor and Penetration Tester, Enterprise Security MVP and trainer (MCT) and Microsoft Security Trusted Advisor. She is also a top-speaker on many well-known conferences (for example: TechEd North America, TechEd Europe, TechEd Middle East, RSA, TechDays, CyberCrime etc.) and writes articles on Windows Security. She proudly holds the role of the Security Architect in IDesign and she drives her own company CQURE. She conducted hundreds IT security audits and penetration tests, including governmental organizations. Her distinct specialization is definitely on Microsoft security solutions in which she holds multiple Microsoft certifications (MCITP, MCTS, MCSE, MCDBA etc.) besides being familiar and possessing certifications with other related technologies. Paula is passionate about sharing her knowledge with others. In private, she enjoys researching new technologies, which she converts to authored trainings. She wrote a book about Threat Management Gateway 2010, now she is working on another one! She has official access to a source code of Windows, that helps her to address all issues that require explanation!

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