Branko Džakula Tech Entrepreneur and Educator

02Lectures

03Building now

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  Secfix

  Co-founder & CISO · Munich · 2021

  Getting a company security-certified used to take a year of paperwork. Secfix turns it into a few weeks of software: ISO 27001, SOC 2, TISAX, GDPR, NIS2 and DORA, for European businesses too small to have a compliance department. It started with one LinkedIn message to a founder I had never met.

  $12M Series A, February 2026Led by Alstin Capital
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  Skenify

  Co-founder & CEO · Podgorica · 2023

  Most companies do not know what they have left exposed to the internet. Skenify finds all of it, works out which parts an attacker could actually use, and hands back a list of things to fix in priority order. The first version of this company failed completely; we rebuilt it in five days on a terrace above the sea.

  Cybersecurity Project of the Year, Game Changer Montenegro 2026Scholarship memorandum with the University of Montenegro
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  The Security Company

  Founder & CEO · Tallinn · 2025

  A security team for companies that cannot afford to hire one. Penetration testing, monitoring, and a chief security officer you share instead of employ.

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  iPets

  Co-founder & Board Member · Podgorica · 2023

  The only one of these that has nothing to do with security. An app for households looking after animals together, with shared tasks, reminders, lost-pet alerts, and a community that answers at two in the morning.

04Also

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  ABIIS Montenegro

  Founder & Board Member
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  Pokret Preduzetnika

  Co-founder
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  Asocijacija menadžera bezbjednosti Crne Gore

  President of the Supervisory Board
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  Toptal

  Security Advisor
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  Kobalt.io

  Security Advisor

05Before

06Teaching

Everything I teach is free and it will stay free. Through UN1QUELY's cybersecurity academy, the first of its kind in Montenegro where more than two hundred people have entered this profession. I lecture at universities across the region, mentor student programmes, and write public guides, because the shortage in this field has never really been a shortage of talent. It is a shortage of ways in. Anyone who really wants to learn has no barrier left: the material is free, the academy is free, and my LinkedIn is open. Write and ask.

07Writing

08Media

• 01Openly, live talk showRTV Budva4 Aug 2026
• 02Branko Džakula, part I, UN1QUELY & SecfixPojačalo EP 3558 Feb 2026
• 03Branko Džakula, part II, UN1QUELY & SecfixPojačalo EP 35615 Feb 2026
• 04Vikend Popodne — tech entrepreneurship in MontenegroTelevizija E21 Feb 2026
• 05From one LinkedIn message to a $17 million investmentUnframed Talks 00613 Apr 2026
• 06$12M raised: how Secfix is automating complianceScale SEE Podcast2 Jun 2026
• 07From Defense to Attack: How AI Redefines Cyber ThreatsDSC Europe 2520 Nov 2025
• 08How vulnerable is society in the age of algorithms?Radio Antena M26 May 2026
• 09Internet safety, short and clearCGO3 Jan 2026
• 10How safe are we really online?RTCG2025
• 1124 Hours, evening news programmeTelevizija E17 Apr 2026
• 12Vikend Popodne — protecting children onlineTelevizija E20 Oct 2025
• 13Vikend Popodne — recognizing spyware on smartphonesTelevizija E10 Apr 2025
• 14Morning Colours, security in everyday digital lifeTV Vijesti
• 15How to protect yourself from spywareTV Vijesti
• 16Spyware: unlawful online surveillanceCDT Crna Gora
• 17Safe and informed online: is there any privacy left in the digital age?Udruženje za odgovorni i održivi razvoj
• 18Deepfake: when a face and a voice become weaponsCDT Crna Gora
• 19Talking Cybersecurity Podcast, with Damjan, UN1QUELYBrightMarbles
• 20Secfix pitchWeb Summit Lisbon4 Nov 2023
• 21Global IT outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike software updateTV N119 Jul 2024
• 22Branko Dzakula, CISO, Kaia HealthThe Cyber Pro Podcast #6626 Apr 2021
• 23Branko Dzakula, CISO at Kaia HealthHead In The Clouds23 Nov 2020

09Speaking

10Endurance

“My day begins when I go to bed, not when I wake up. The quality of my day is determined by the quality of my sleep.”

UNFRAMED TALKS 006

THE FIRST TIME I FELL IN LOVE WITH SPORTS WAS WHEN I TURNED 31. I WISH IT WAS SOONER, BUT I NOW KNOW IT IS NEVER LATE TO DO THE RIGHT THING FOR YOUR BODY AND MIND. I DO TRAIL RACES, OBSTACLE COURSES, TRIATHLONS, HALF MARATHONS AND MARATHONS. A GOOD QUOTE FROM MURAKAMI THAT PRETTY MUCH SUMMS UP THE EXPERIENCE: "IN LONG-DISTANCE RUNNING THE ONLY OPPONENT YOU HAVE TO BEAT IS YOURSELF, THE WAY YOU USED TO BE". RESPECT COMES FROM SELF-RESPECT, LOVE COMES FROM SELF-LOVE, TREAT YOURSELF RIGHT SO YOU CAN TREAT THE WORLD BETTER.

11Values

Strong values pave the road to success without regret, shame or unnecessary pain. They are the cornerstone of progress, and should mature as you do.

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  Ethics

  Etika

  I do not take work I would be uncomfortable explaining in public. In security you are handed other people's secrets; what you do with them is the whole job.

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  Responsibility

  Odgovornost

  If I said I would do it, it is mine. Nobody has ever been made safer by an explanation of why something was somebody else's fault.

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  Equality

  Ravnopravnost

  A student in Nikšić deserves the same lecture as a room in Munich. That is why everything I teach is free and stays free.

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  Courage

  Hrabrost

  Saying the uncomfortable thing out loud, about a country's readiness, a company's exposure, or my own failed startup.

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  Endurance

  Izdržljivost

  Long distances, on trails and in companies. Almost nothing worth having is finished inside a year.

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  Persistence

  Upornost

  The fourth attempt is usually the one that works. I have the failures to prove it.

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  Vision

  Vizija

  I came back to Montenegro because I could see what it could be, not because of what it already was.

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  Passion

  Strast

  I would still be reading about this at night if nobody paid me for it. That has not changed since I was twenty-three.

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  Optimism

  Optimizam

  An eternal optimist and a practicing stoic. True confidence is earned through self-trust and the steady proof that hard things can be endured, handled, and outlasted.