We bridge the gap between theory and practice in learning cybersecurity

CyberEDU’s mission is to increase and improve cybersecurity skills worldwide, by providing a space for people to learn, and practice cybersecurity skills using real-world inspired exercises and challenges.

We uniquely bridge the gap between cybersecurity theory and practice…

→ through our always growing content library of cybersecurity exercises and challenges, which is mapped against internationally-recognised industry standards;

→ through our highly-engaging gamified user experience, replicating real-world scenarios; and

→ through our AI-driven personalized training and career path advice, tailored to our users’ needs and skills.

Florina DUMITRACHE
Co-Founder & CEO

Florina has a Masters degree in Communication and Public Relations, with more than 12 years experience in marketing, communication and project management. She is a strong supporter of technology and passionate about cybersecurity. She founded Ladies in Cybersecurity, an initiative that encourages women to choose a career in cybersecurity.

Andrei AVADANEI
Co-Founder & CTO

For more than a decade, Andrei has been working in tech and cybersecurity, constantly learning and improving his skills as he progressed. His expertise is backed up by the 60+ awards he received for successfully participating in international and national competitions focused on algorithms, information security, web and software development. In 2016 he was nominated in both New Europe 100 – a list built by Google and Financial Times presenting the brightest and best people in Central and Eastern Europe and in Forbes 30 under 30.

Lucian NITESCU
Senior Cyber Security Consultant

Lucian is specialised in Penetration Testing and Incident Response. He acts like team leader for the penetration testing team and he's also an active member of the DefCamp team, organizer of "DefCamp Capture The Flag", organizer and trainer at the European Cyber Security Championship (ECSC) from 2018 to 2020. Lucian is also active in the bug bounty community and has numerous certifications such as: OSCP, eCPPT v2, eCCPT Gold. Lucian was also among the the coaches of the Romanian national team that won the European Cyber Security Championship in 2019 and he proposed exercises for numerous cybersecurity competitions, including ECSC, DefCamp CTF, UNbreakable and so on.

Danut AVADANEI
Senior Software Engineer

Innovative Software Engineer with more than 8 years of experience in software development lifecycle. Possesses practical knowledge with enterprise software market and required technological set for achieving results in: Software Architecture, Application Development, InfoSec, DevOps and more.

Daniel POPOVICI

Experienced in cryptography and web application security, Daniel currently works as a penetration tester at Bit Sentinel. Curios about data encryption and algorithms and the will of knowing new things have helped him developing exercises for DefCamp CTF, European Cyber Security Challenge, UNbreakable Romania, and other national and international hacking competitions. The Interest in IoT devices brought his involvement at Defcamp IoT Village in 2019.

Darius MOLDOVAN

Passionate about application security, Darius currently works as a Penetration Tester at Bit Sentinel. He is certified as OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional) and he is always looking for new ways to improve his knowledge by participating in different activities like the "Synack Red Team" private bug bounty program or by simply exploring reverse engineering and exploit development challenges. Moreover, Darius has an out of the box mindset that helps him to create exercises for different cybersecurity competitions and programs like UNbreakable Romania and DefCamp Capture the Flag.

Valentina GALEA

Experienced in forensics, mobile security and threat hunting, her carrer in cybersecurity started with hacking mobile applications. She is always curious how attacksers are operating in the wild and her ambition is to replicate this to challenges for CyberEDU CTFs, where participants can simulate real forensics analysis for attack scenarios, especially around Windows OS Security. Valentina was also a challenge author for DefCamp CTF, European Cyber Security Challenge, UNbreakable Romania and other national and international hacking competitions.