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Prof. Dr. Šarūnas Grigaliūnas

Vulnerability shaped my life. Resilience shapes my work.

I know what a single point of failure can cost. I build post-quantum security, AI governance and cyber resilience for systems that cannot afford to fail.

This is not a story about fragility. It is a record of what becomes possible when lived vulnerability is turned into strategic clarity.

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1998vulnerability became lived experience
1999→working in cybersecurity
4connected fields of practice
1mission: systems that endure
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* The source code

One point of failure can change everything.

In 1998, my body told me to stop.

Since that day, vulnerability has never been an abstract concept. It has been a daily operating condition—something to understand, work with and refuse to surrender to.

I do not use that history as a request for sympathy. I use it as a source of rigor. It taught me that resilience is not the absence of weakness. It is the ability to keep identity, purpose and essential functions intact when weakness is real.

That is why I work where post-quantum security, AI governance and critical infrastructure meet. Not because these subjects are fashionable, but because I know how easily one unprotected dependency can bring down everything around it.

;; operating principle

Find the point the system cannot afford to lose. Then design so it does not have to.

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[1998] vulnerability became lived experience.

[1999] cybersecurity became a field of work.

[today] professor, centre head, researcher and builder.

[focus] post-quantum security · AI governance · forensics · resilience.

[method] translate frontier risk into systems people can use.

[mission] make Lithuania and the Baltic region harder to break.

[status] still building_

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  1. 1998The premise

    Vulnerability stops being theory.

  2. 1999The practice

    Cybersecurity becomes a professional path.

  3. NowThe platform

    Research, infrastructure, governance and public education converge.

  4. NextThe ambition

    A quantum-safe, AI-ready and resilient Baltic region.

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* Four connected domains

I do not study the future from a distance.

I turn emerging risk into migration plans, governance models, evidence practices and infrastructure that can survive contact with reality.

01PQC / QKD

Quantum-Safe Security

Preparing institutions for cryptographic transition, long-term confidentiality risk and interoperable quantum-secure communication.

  • Post-quantum migration and crypto-agility
  • Quantum-safe identity and trust services
  • QKD infrastructure and interoperability
  • Collect-now-decrypt-later risk
02AI / GOV

AI Security Governance

Making accountability, decision rights and operational safeguards explicit before AI becomes an unmanaged dependency.

  • CARI readiness models
  • CAISO role and accountability design
  • AI-enabled threat readiness
  • Executive governance structures
03RES / OPS

Cyber Resilience

Helping critical sectors preserve trust and continuity before, during and after digital disruption.

  • Critical infrastructure protection
  • NIS2, DORA and regulatory readiness
  • Incident and executive decision readiness
  • Security governance and risk
04DFIR / OSINT

Digital Forensics

Connecting technical evidence, investigation logic and defensible decisions across complex incidents.

  • Digital evidence object models
  • Cybercrime investigation
  • Forensic readiness and reconstruction
  • OSINT and evidence-based analysis
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Researchfind the real risk
Translatemake it decision-ready
Buildcreate something usable
Provetest it under pressure
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* Work in motion

A portfolio should show what is being built—not just what is known.

Institutional programmes, independent laboratories, community work and products—grouped by the outcome they are designed to create.

01

Operational trust

Cyber Resilience

2 programmes · 10 initiatives
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Trust beyond classical cryptography

Quantum-Safe

2 EU programmes · 20 labs
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Technology in service of people

Volunteer

2 impact projects · 3 expert roles · 5 communities
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Ideas that become usable products

Business

9 ventures and products
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* Evidence over adjectives

Credibility should be inspectable.

The profile is anchored in current institutional roles, programmes and public research records—not generic claims of expertise.

;; recent public voice

From research to national trust

The consistent public argument is simple: quantum security is not a distant research problem. Cryptographic visibility, identity and interoperability are resilience questions for today.

Outdated cryptography as a national trust problem Quantum-secure identity for the Baltic region
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* Make the complex actionable

Frontier risk is useless until someone can make a decision about it.

I work with executive, technical, academic and public-sector audiences to translate emerging cybersecurity into clear priorities and defensible action.

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01

The quantum cybersecurity transition

PQC, QKD, crypto-agility and quantum-safe identity—what must move now.

02

AI security governance: from CISO to CAISO

Accountability and resilience before AI becomes an uncontrolled dependency.

03

Collect now, decrypt later

Long-term confidentiality risk translated for executive decisions.

04

Digital forensics in the age of AI

Evidence, OSINT and investigation when authenticity is under pressure.

05

Cyber resilience for critical infrastructure

Moving from compliance to operational readiness and continuity.

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* The next resilient system starts with a conversation

What cannot your organisation afford to lose?

If the answer involves trust, identity, continuity or evidence, we should talk.

LocationKaunas, Lithuania
InstitutionKaunas University of Technology
CentreCyber Security Centre of Excellence
Available forResearch · advisory · executive education · speaking
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