Podcast appearances and mentions of val bercovici

Hey Everybody, no new interview this week, because I've got this kind of stuff going on. I'm getting a new roof put on and New siding on the house, so that made things a bit crazy.I just want to take a moment to thank you for watching and if you like this channel, please think about subscribing. Most of the regular viewers of this channel are not subscribers, but subscribing can help us do more with the channel.Everybody is fighting the Ransomware security battle, so I wanted to take a few minutes to highlight some of the interviews we have done that focus on that. I will add links up here and in the description and I will put together a playlist so you can find them easily.This is kind of like those flashback episodes of TV shows where they get away with not producing a new episode, but it kind of looks like you did.First up is an interview we did with Andrew Miller who is Pure Storage's Subject Matter Expert on Ransomware. He gives a good breakdown on the situationNext, we have Hitesh Sheth the CEO of Vectra AI about stopping these threats and how Vectra can add to your securityWe talked with Saket Modi, CEO and founder of Safe Security, Which gives you tools to asses your security posture by giving you and your employees a security score. It also provides tools to help remediate issues and train your people.One of the big steps you can take to proactively protect your infrastructure is o segment you systems, and we had Illumio's Nathanael Iversen on to tell us about how Illumio makes it simple to implement segmentation.Sentinel One has been in the news lately following their big IPO, and we had Jared Phipps on to talk about security and how SentinelOne can keep you secure.One of the challenges around breaches is knowing what data you can trust. Chainkit utilizes blockchain to cryptographically validate your data, and we had CEO Val Bercovici on to talk security.Sysdig started life as a analytics and troubleshooting tool, but evolved into a security focus platform to help you keep an eye on an increasingly distributed infrastructure landscape. We had Sysdig's CRO, Keegan Riley on to tell us their story.While we are on analytic, let's talk about the bid dog in the monitoring space, Datadog. Good analytics can help you identify issues faster and with greater accuracy, and we had Product and Community VP Ilan Rabinovitch on to tell us about it.Last, I did a quick roundup of the hot issues in tech right now, you can check it out here.I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments and if you have any suggestions for things you would like to see, let us know in the comments.Thanks for watching, if you like what you saw, click that like button, hit that subscribe button and click the bell for notifications, and I will see you in the next video.Chapters:00:00 - Intro00:20 - Thank You00:50 - Andrew Miller, Pure Storage01:02 - Hitesh Sheth, Vectra AI01:10 - Saket Modi, Safe Security01:28 - Nathanael Iversen, Illumio01:40 - Jared Phipps, SentinelOne01:49 - Val Bercovici, Chainkit02:00 - Keegan Riley, Sysdig02:17 - Ilan Rabinovitch, Datadog02:32 - Hot Topics in TechAndrew Miller, Pure Storage: https://youtu.be/x-Pn_W3DVAIHitesh Sheth, Vectra AI: https://youtu.be/N7G9SuDFqK0Saket Modi, Safe Security: https://youtu.be/AqrrMCR106sNathanael Iversen, Illumio: https://youtu.be/hKXszuXEUuQJared Phipps, SentinelOne: https://youtu.be/1K3P-B95mv4Val Bercovici, Chainkit: https://youtu.be/qht3Smit4LgKeegan Riley, Sysdig: https://youtu.be/SdRc5zXTAccIlan Rabinovitch, Datadog: https://youtu.be/cxzAbGog3G0My Round Up: https://youtu.be/icyFfntZ2U0Ransomware Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeqOj9qLY0iPjtAOrWLEG6JSrB1QU7narFUTRtech focuses on startups, innovat

Chainkit Founder & CEO Val Bercovici returns to the podcast to build on what we learned last week. This week we talk about how distributed ledger technology (such as the one in BlockChain, but there are others), can be used to increase security. We talk about the SolarWinds hack and how that could have been prevented using such technology.

We invite blockchain expert Val Bercovici, Founder & CEO of ChainKit, on the podcast to explain the basics of distributed ledgers, as well as the biggest distributed ledger – BlockChain. He explains what a distributed ledger is and why you might want one. We then talk about why someone would contribute to such a ledger, meaning why you would volunteer your resources to be part one – a process known as "mining." Then, as a precursor to our next episode, we talk a little bit about the security possibilities of a distributed ledger.

I had the pleasure of catching up with Val Bercovici, Founder & CEO at Chainkit, a Software-as-a-Service company that builds cyber security solutions, with a corporate mission to eliminate blind spots in cyber security and data privacy. Today we discuss Chainkit & Data Protection, Chains of Custody, and Blockchains - topics CXOs are unlikely to have ever faced in their careers thus far, but now have no option. #1 - Cyber attacks & Ransomware incidents continue at eye watering levels We discuss the significant increase in Cyber attacks & Ransomware incidents - we kickoff with Val sharing his take on the current state of what appears to be a tsunami of new incidents of cybersecurity challenges and resulting ransomware incidents, particularly focused on the healthcare industry which understandably was set to occur in light of the fact that the world is dealing with a global pandemic with COVID19, cyber criminals are never slow to take advantage of any opportunity where chinks in the armour appear in any place they can see a way to profit from any type of security exposure. #2 - The huge impact of COVID19 and life before and after 2020 COVID19 has had a huge impact but didn’t this issue exist prior to 2020, so much so that I don’t think anyone would argue that the impact the COVID19 global pandemic has had is beyond significant with regard to the increase in data protection & cybersecurity, be it the shift to Work From Home for many, or the increased shift to Mobile technology in the likes of hospitals, retail, and service industries as a whole - but the risks and impacts around this space of cyberattacks and ransomware have been around for decades now. We discuss how in Val’s view the current state of the world has changed the landscape of data protection and digital risk and what are you seeing as you spend time with organisations faced with the need to respond. #3 - Are we at a point now where technology exists to solve this problem Cyberattacks, cybersecurity, ransomware, data risk and data protection as a whole are not new topics, nor are they new risks, albeit they have seen significant increases due to our pivot to organisations being Data Driven and we live an increasingly Always On, Always Connected world - so the massive growth in risks related to the massive expansion of the attack surface should come as no surprise to anyone, but the question I keep getting in boardrooms is “is there a solution to this, does the technology exist to solve it?” - I ask Val to delve into this, we break this into two parts. We start with the first part and I ask Val for his take on this, i.e. should it come as a surprise to any bona fide business or technology professional that there has been a significant increase in cyberattacks and ransomware incidents. And to the second part, I ask Val if the technology exist today, to address and solve the challenge of securing & protecting data and even in the case of successful hacks, have in place chains of custody as it’s called, to be able to track and trace the perpetrators. We wrap up with a little crystal ball gazing - organisations are now having to navigate their way out of 2020 and ease into 2021 as we reach the end of a long and challenging year, and safely get through the upcoming Christian holiday period Christmas and unknown waters. I ask Val to share his insights and advice around how organisations should prepare to address the immediate future, as they look to develop business & technology strategy & supporting plans for the next 12 to 18 months? Tune in now for all of these amazing topics and more, and enjoy a great fireside chat with one of the most innovative thinkers in the world of cyber security, and indeed on of the leading forces in thought leadership in the war against cyber crime. This podcast was made in partnership with Chainkit. For more information please visit: - Chainkit website: https://bit.ly/chainkit-homepage #sponsored #chainkitinfluencer .

Check Below for links and additional information mentioned in this episode! There have been some very high profile hacks in the news lately. Some of these have even been hacks of security vendors themselves, from Microsoft to FireEye, but perhaps one of the most disturbing was the recent SolarWinds hack that we are just starting to come to grips with. If you are not familiar with the details of this attack, you need to be. Today we are going to talk security so buckle in. The scope of the recent Solarwinds hack is massive and the true depth of this attack is still being discovered. This is one of many disturbing recent security breaches. Businesses are being faced with trying to defend from a myriad of attacks that are growing more persistent and sophisticated every day. They are constantly trying to guard against everything from data exfiltration to ransomware attacks, and more insidious data manipulation attacks, but how do you do this if you can’t trust the information you are working with? Today we have with us Val Bercovici founder and CEO of Chainkit, a company that is working to build chains of custody to simplify trust in the world’s information. He is here to tell us how establishing chains of custody around data can help to identify and protect against attacks. Val is going to help us make sense of what has been going on. eXtended Integrity Monitoring (XIM) white paper: https://chainkit.com/xim-whitepaper This is a great primer on our technology, the why, how, and the 6 design principles that uniquely address the challenges of safeguarding data in the 21st century. Schedule a demo: https://chainkit.com/schedule-demo CISA Alert (https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-352a) for practitioners of CISA Emergency Directive CISA Emergency Directive Jan 19 & 25, 2021 reporting deadlines: https://cyber.dhs.gov/ed/21-01/#supplemental-guidance-v3 CISA Insight for Leaders (section 3b): https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CISA%20Insights%20-%20What%20Every%20Leader%20Needs%20to%20Know%20About%20the%20Ongoing%20APT%20Cyber%20Activity%20-%20FINAL_508.pdf 60+ references by CISA to Volexity (Dark Halo) Research Report: https://www.volexity.com/blog/2020/12/14/dark-halo-leverages-solarwinds-compromise-to-breach-organizations/ Top Conclusion from Volexity Report: Volexity believes that Dark Halo is a sophisticated threat actor based on the following characteristics of their attacks: Generally, the attacker displayed a reasonable level of operational security throughout the attack, taking steps to wipe logs for various services used and to remove evidence of their commands from infected systems. Additional explicit CISA Requirement for SolarWinds customers: (h) Configuring logging to ensure that all logs on the host operating system and SolarWinds platform are being captured and stored for at least 180 days. (j) Configure logging to ensure that all logs from the host OS, SolarWinds platform, and associated network logs are being captured and stored for at least 180 days in a separate, centralized log aggregation capability.

I caught up with Val Bercovici, Founder & CEO at Chainkit, a Software-as-a-Service company that builds cyber security solutions, with a corporate mission to eliminate blind spots in cyber security and data privacy. In this show we discuss the every present and increasingly mission critical topics of Cybersecurity, Cyber war, and the over arching theme of Cyber crime in today's increasingly digital and "always on" / "always connected" modern world, with the added challenge of a global population challenged with living through a global pandemic in the corm of the COVID19 novel derivative of coronavirus. We kick off with a fun introduction to Val and his early life and inspirations, through to his academic and career path which lead him to this amazing challenge to build and run a business which aims to help solve what for want of a better description is ( as we discuss on this show ) a "digital World War 3". Val also gives us great insights as to why the war against Cyber Crime and Cyber Security requires thinking akin to Playing Chess with a strategic approach rather than playing Checkers in reaction mode. We also discuss the emergence of what are in effect now Military-Grade Cyber Weapons being used more often than not by "state actors" as well as highly organised professional cyber criminals and cyber crime organisations - hacking is a well oiled business now, it's no longer the realm of "script kiddies" and bulletin board modem dialup phreakers. Val shares his thoughts around why we’re seeing unprecedented growth in Cyber Attack headlines over the past few years, and in particular what’s changed to bring this about. In keeping with the great Chess vs Checkers analogy, Val also covers why he and his team recommends CxO's need to thin like a Cyber General, that is Play chess, anticipate adversarial counter-measures (i.e. to address the reportedly now %39 undetected attacks) to prepare / react. I also ask Val for his thoughts on where we are head and his recommendations regarding "next Steps", in particular around the likes of Audit Trails, why they are the lifeblood of any modern Cyber Defence strategy & solution, knowing that still today, most organisations unfortunately only have event logs to fall back on. And we wrap up with Val's "over the horizon" views on what's coming over the next 12 to 18 months, what big topics organisations need to be discussing today in board rooms, what actionable takeaways they can immediately consider putting in place, as Val's view is: "The Future is already here, but unevenly distributed. We saw this with income gaps pre-COVID19 and now with business growth OR failure in the coronavirus era. InfoSec maturity will play out the same way. Companies that don’t evolve their InfoSec rapidly to the reality of COVID and associated Cyber Risk, simply won’t survive (due to Ransomware + Cyber Insurance financial pressures)." Val's very much of the view that these are national economic and international security priorities right now, which will foster public-private sector partnerships for the likes of: 1. Increased national Cyber Warfare (defensive & offensive) investment & transparency 2. New government cyber policy/regulation (that transparency part) and 3. More direct law enforcement coordination with the business sector and their insurers. Tune in now for all of these amazing topics and more, and enjoy a great fireside chat with one of the most innovative thinkers in the world of cyber security, and indeed on of the leading forces in thought leadership in the war against cyber crime. This podcast was made in partnership with Chainkit. For more information please visit: - Chainkit website: https://bit.ly/chainkit-homepage - Chainkit on LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/chainkit-linkedin - Chainkit on Twitter: https://bit.ly/chainkit-twitter - Chainkit on YouTube: https://bit.ly/chainkit-youtube #sponsored #chainkitinfluencer .

Our guest Val B from PencilDATA and Jason McGee, CTO of IBM Cloud Platform discuss the changing face of cybersecurity threats and how we can plan for the unpredictable.

    Val Bercovici is the Founder & CEO of PencilDATA. He describes PencilDATA as a lie detector for data, but from a broader perspective, it’s a company that offers cybersecurity software that seeks to detect and prevent cyber breaches. Val has extensive experience working in executive positions as well as hands-on experience with cloud storage and data management innovations, Big Data, and storage architecture.   Val joins me today to share what it’s like being a CEO, the challenges he faced along the way, and the cybersecurity capabilities of PencilDATA. He discusses his professional journey, the companies he’s worked with, and the problems he saw regarding data security that led to the development of PencilDATA. He explains how to choose a role model, what leaders can do to humanize their employees, and why there’s no such thing as a work-life balance. Val also describes what he loves about being a CEO as well as the aspects he doesn’t like about it.       “You have to have the confidence to just go ahead and do it.” - Val Bercovici       Today on Mastering Midlife:   Val's life and upbringing before he became a CEO. The importance of keeping perspective in your life. Aspects of his life that forced him to shift gears in his career. His thoughts on the concept of work-life balance. Recognizing the human side of your employees. The fears he had to conquer when wearing the hat of a CEO. His advice when choosing role models and the standards you set for yourself. What his company does and the products they offer to customers. What is the cyberwar that they're trying to help fight? What he loves about being a CEO and what he doesn't love.     Val Bercovici’s Words of Wisdom:   You can humanize your staff even with the smallest things, like not setting seminars during the weekend. Fabricated data can be detrimental to a company’s marketing strategy. You can’t truly have a work-life balance.     Connect with Val Bercovici:   PencilDATA Twitter LinkedIn         Get FREE Access to the Only 10’s Course   Are you struggling with knowing what, when, and how to focus your efforts to get things done? As a long-time sufferer of severe ADD, I understand the struggle - and that’s why I created the Only 10’s system. This system has helped me and thousands of others clear the clutter and focus their energy on getting the right things done.   The Only 10’s free online course is based on my proven system to help you focus your attention and maintain momentum around your day-to-day life.   Sign up for the Only 10’s free course today!       Mastering Midlife...Together!   Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of the Mastering Midlife Podcast: How to Thrive When the World Asks the Most of You with Mark Silverman. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts and leave us a review.   Be sure to visit our website and connect with us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube and don’t forget to share your favorite episodes on social media.  

This week on the podcast, an old friend joins us to talk about his newest venture into blockchain and security. Join us as we discuss Chainkit and PencilDATA with founder Val Bercovici and how you can use it to protect your enterprise environments.

For today’s show, I’m excited to present our second annual re:Invent Roundtable Roundup. This year I’m joined by my friends Dave McCrory, VP of Software Engineering at Wise.io at GE Digital, and Val Bercovici, Founder and CEO of Pencil Data. If you missed the news coming out of re:Invent, or you want to know more about what one of the biggest AI platform providers is up to, you’ll want to say tuned, because we’ll discuss many of their new offerings in this episode. We cover all of AWS’ most important ML and AI announcements, including SageMaker Ground Truth, Reinforcement Learning and New, DeepRacer, Inferentia and Elastic Inference, ML Marketplace, Personalize, Forecast and Textract, and more. For the complete show notes for this episode, visit https://twimlai.com/talk/205.

Join host David Linthicum and guest Val Bercovici, founder of PencilData, as they discuss the current state of enterprise blockchain and cloud, potential future evolutions, and the value blockchain tools and technologies can provide enterprises.

Joining us this week is Val Bercovici, Founder & CEO of PencilDATA at KeyBank Emerging Tech Summit. About PencilDATA PencilDATA is a software-as-a-service startup embracing data governance allowing users to see and manipulate data easily. It achieves this with a blockchain ledger that accounts for all data activity, Highlights  0 min 48 sec: Introduction from Val Bercovici o Post – Blockchain in the Cloud by Rob Hirschfeld o Robotic Process Automation (RPA)  4 min 47 sec: What do you use Blockchain for? o Core to the value but is just an enabler  5 min 52 sec: Don't confused Blockchain with ICO/Crypto-currency o Blockchain rollouts in 2018 have paused ~ Gartner quote o HOMEWORK – Podcast with BlockChain Technology Partners o PencilDATA has built the S3 of Blockchains  10 min 08 sec: Blockchain Service or Acting on BC with distributed service? o Useful Zero Trust Solution o Autonomous Vehicle Taxi Service Use Case o Same workflow and processes needed for medical equipment  15 min 59 sec: Why Distributed Ledgers for these Use Cases? o Centralized authorities can be a single point of failure  19 min 51 sec: Data security issues around Veracity & Authentication o Data poison can train AI poorly o Explainable AI ~ Data Reproduce-ability; prove data is valid  25 min 54 sec: SalesForce Use Cases o Live on the SalesForce App Exchange o Launching at DreamForce 2018 with Customer References  27 min 18 sec: How PencilDATA provide value to SalesForce Customers? o SaaS Turnkey Solution that hides the behind the scenes work o Costs for Etherium usage  37 min 14 sec: Industrial IoT Use Case  37 min 31 sec: Wrap-Up

One of my favourite phrases is that "those who make the most of their data, will be the success stories of the future" and I think that is echoed by our obsession with data as a new all-powerful resource for us to mine and exploit. But, it's not quite that straightforward is it? There is no getting away from the importance of security and privacy when it comes to our data. Be that keeping it from unwarranted access, data leakage or maintaining compliance with ever increasing regulatory requirements, maintaining our data in a secure environment is a primary concern. That is the focus of this weeks show, as I'm joined by Val Bercovici, a well-respected technology leader, who is today working on a new project with his start-up company Pencildata, a company who's mission it is to try to address this very challenge. In a fascinating chat with Val, we explore the growing tension between getting value from data while maintaining its security. We examine some of the interesting problems that come with A.I. systems, how do you address the "cold start" problem? or ensure that your A.I. systems have a wider range of data, beyond academic and publicly available data sets to learn from? We discuss why organisations find it hard to unlock the value of their data and effectively share it, not only with 3rd party providers but even with others inside their organisations. We wrap up by looking at how to change this, how do we give an organisation the ability to maintain control of their data regardless of where it is shared and crucially the ability to change their minds, so when they no longer want to share that data they can withdraw authorisation, regardless of where that data resides. We also look at the importance of an immutable audit trail so that you always know who, where and how your data is used. I hope you enjoyed this show and discussion of the fascinating topic. For full show notes visit :- https://wp.me/p4IvtA-1xk

Val Bercovici discusses how Peritus.ai uses artificial intelligence to change the Autonomous Data Center market and assist with tackling Technical Support and Data Protection challenges.

#WomenInLinux CTO Series: Val Bercovici, SolidFireValentin (Val) Bercovici, a longtime NetApp executive and member of the Office of the CTO, is SolidFire CTO. The SFOCTO engages with and explores the latest technology communities, ecosystems and stacks, delivering strategic technical guidance in support of SolidFire’s largest and most complex customer and partner deployments. Bercovici, a pioneer in the Cloud industry, introduced the first International Cloud Standard to the marketplace as CDMI (ISO INCITS 17826) in 2012 and has several patents pending around data center applications of augmented reality.Additional Links: Website: https://www.netapp.com/us/products/cloud-storage/index.aspx http://netapp.io/Lean Cloud: https://twitter.com/valb00/status/719614776519725057Gartner Catalyst Conf: https://www.gartnereventsondemand.com/ ***Update: Val is now the Founder of Peritus.ai - a virtual expert which automates the workflow of your most critical support cases led by your most scarce escalations experts.Now Hiring: Data Scientists, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Full Stack & Distributed Systems Developers

Super Bowl 50 is just around the corner, and that means the Denver Broncos, who are also NetApp customers, have the opportunity to once again hoist the Vince Lombardi trophy. Earlier this year, we had the opportunity to sit down with Russ Trainor, VP of IT for the Denver Broncos, Val Bercovici, and Cynthia Stoddard to discuss how NetApp has helped the team overcome their IT challenges and once again, make it to the big game.

Flash has been the driving force behind significant change in the storage industry over the last 3-5 years, and that change continues to accelerate today. SSD drives are finally nearing the inflection point where the price per gigabyte is dropping below the price of traditional spinning hard drives and this will have another momentous impact to storage vendors and the devices being sold. This week’s episode features Val Bercovici, NetApp’s Cloud Czar, who talks to us about the future of flash media, including some interesting technology coming out of Intel, and how it will affect the storage industry as a whole.

Val Bercovici, director of Strategic Technology at NetApp, discusses new advances in protection against double disk failure. He shares key benefits of RAID 6, the only solution that protects against combinations of double disk failures, and makes recommendations for an efficient disk-protection strategy that can help organizations enhance their overall performance.