2022: Highlights

2022 has come to an end end, and it’s just the time to sum it up.

My new, interesting, and significant development was becoming the CEO of Serenity Cybersecurity and Cybersecurity director of Red Team.

When I only began working in Red Team and Сompany Group I literally discovered a new world. It is a huge corporation with over 150 thousand employees, dozens of subsidiaries and sub-subsidiaries, impressive input into the Russian GDP (one of the largest private investors into Russian economy with a unique asset portfolio in various segments. The people working here are incredibly business-oriented, they know how to invest and develop businesses in the most diverse areas. I was welcomed with their whole hearts, cybersecurity was given a quick start, I was included into every thinkable learning program, and invited to be a part of the judging panel of the best social projects in Red Team.

We started SCS together with Eugene Chereshnev. Active hiring campaign began on October 10, and now we stand over a hundred strong. Consider this: we don’t just hire employees, our strategy is gathering the best professionals of cybersecurity in Russia. I worked with some vacancies for 5 months, interviewing over 100 candidates for each one, and I’m proud of every single choice I’ve made.?

Professional business-coaches compare our team with a brilliant, happy, wonderfully healthy child, and childish energy means freedom, creativity and innovation. Coaches describe us as a uniquely tight-knit, fast, decisive, genuine, unstoppable in searching for solutions, with pulsating vitality and creativity. In business games, we did in 10 minutes what others only managed in 40, and the result was triple. We have defined strategic and innovative directions of company development, agreed on the ethics code and values uniting us. This year cybersecurity sales grew 49%. Next year we plan to grow in services ≈180%. In 2023 we plan to increase the number of projects, our employees and business many- fold.

I constantly try to invest in my personal development, and this year I acquired several new skills improving the quality of life. For instance, I rethought my approach to money and started treating all of my spending as a system. I used to pay for whatever needs to be paid without much control over the financial flow. Now I’ve developed a system that is so transparent, understandable, and predictable, that a new feeling arose: “the money loves it”. Increasing my fortune allows me both to live a life that’s comfortable for me and my family, and to participate in charitable projects, and it’s a great joy. Financial well-being helps, as it defies the state of survival and affords the state of creation, letting me give the people and the world the attitude to win and self-confidence.

Starting my annual report with career and business is a traditional solution, as the position of a businesswoman is highly important for me, it’s my big impact on big deeds. Extensive work with great challenges in high-velocity mode is inspiring. Not a drop of fear! I know and feel that I’m bring a lot of good into the world. But surely, I find it important to be present in all the spheres of life. I want to taste life in its entirety, enjoy its every bit, nook and moment! This year I drew my resources from touching the life’s esthetics.

A couple years ago I invited a dance teacher to master new moves, develop in this area, but then dropped out due to my busy work schedule. This year feels like a flow started, I want to dance with all of my heart, and I dance. Now my moves start from the heart, and they are beautiful. My constraint is gone. We held a few dance marathons with my niece, my daughter and my niece’s friend. My daughter Yulia also started to dance! It’s of utmost importance for me that this hobby was her free choice.

Besides, I always loved to photograph and be photographed, it’s an act of creativity, producing things new and beautiful. This year I organized 4 photo sessions, and I especially remember working with Tina Berezhnaya and the two sessions involving dangerous animals, a panther and a jaguar.?

I developed new designs for my home and ran a renovation there. The five months when the work was on we lived in my mother’s home. In this time we built a year-round greenhouse there, and warm houses for the dogs where it’s really comfortable to raise puppies. I really enjoyed the construction and renovation and became involved in the process. This is why I started my own construction company, and we’ve already built the first house for sale.?

One more source of power and energy for me is travels. We started this year with a trop to Sochi with my daughter. I still remember Yulia sitting on the shore serenely and throwing little stones into the water. She, I, rocks, water. It was so simple, so touching and so warm. I discovered two new places – Optina Pustyn monastery (the town of Kozelsk in Kaluga region) and Nilo-Stolobenskaya Pustyn monastery (Tver region). The most emotional trip was possibly my vising to my hometown, Dimitrovgrad. The ruins of the house where I grew up, the first and the last schools, the cemetery where my family members are buried. A week in my hometown is a lovely and significant immersion into the past where every single moment is precious. It gives me foundation, strength and connections to my roots.?

Since childhood my health was weak, this is why I work on it with so much zeal. This year I started jogging. Joggings relaxes your nervous system, during this exercise the most interesting answers to hard questions become clear. My niece Anna introduced me to breathing exercise routine that allows me to stay lean and strengthen my nervous and immune systems. I was happy to start the courses of public speaking and started doing a daily exercise for the mouth and the tongue. It noticeably improves and embellishes my speech, and I can already see the results. Finally, I can stand on nails! Thanks to that, I discovered an interesting trait in my body: it does not matter how impossible the pain might seem, in some 8 minutes it’s totally gone. With every new repetition the notion of pain dissolves and kind of disappears. But the greatest achievement in the health and well-being department is finally fixing my sleep pattern after 20 years of constant insomnia.?

I now have 6 dogs. Two big ones, a Newfoundlander Oma and a Golden retriever Amigo, three shelties Gabriel, Eva and Amur, and Merry – a mongrel that came to us a little puppy and stayed. She was covered in lichen and could barely breath. My Mom gave Merry manganese solution baths daily, took her to the vets for IVs, gave her shots, and nurtured her to a perfectly healthy playful pooch. One of the shelties, Eva, got lost this year on Victory day – it ran away scared by fireworks. For two months we posted and published hundreds of notices, and finally Eva was found! She made around 100 kilometers in the forest and walked into the city. She had 39 ticks on her, and was all skin and bones. Now she’s recovered. In her escape she gained courage and stamina.?

And finally, the most important bit – my daughter, my precious love. Yulia started school and does quite well there. Teachers note her significant improvement in speech, thinking, and attention. For a child who was promised to be immobile and mute for life it’s incredibly important. This year Yulia learned to roller-skate and created her first presentation about her family. She became braver. Yulia used to be afraid to walk into the forest near our home (there are foxes there, as well as moose and boars). She only played in the back yard and walked in the village, but now she takes strolls in the woods and walk with the dogs for an hour or an hour-and-a-half with her assistant present.

This year for me was significant, I value and praise its every moment. I value and bless my family, colleagues, friends, assistants, and myself. Now on to the year 2023!?