Racktoberfest 2020

Speakers:

Eric Bednash is the CEO and co-founder of RackTop Systems. He has spent the past 25 years as an innovator and entrepreneur, designing products and solutions to solve challenging Extreme Data problems. He has co-founded prior companies focused on delivering IT based services and products within the DoD Intel and Financial communities. Eric leads the strategic vision for RackTop’s data storage and management products.

Jeff Capone, PhD, is CEO of the security startup, SecureCircle, which he founded in 2015. An award-winning executive leader with expertise in enterprise software development, network and storage solutions, and IoT applications, Jeff has a track record of founding and selling successful software companies. Prior to SecureCircle, Jeff served as CTO at NETGEAR and CEO and Co-Founder of Leaf Networks, which was acquired by NETGEAR. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University.

Ron Gula is President at Gula Tech Adventures which focuses on cyber technology, cyber policy and recruiting more people to the cyber workforce. Since 2017, GTA has invested in dozens of cyber start-ups and funds and supported multiple cyber nonprofits and projects. From 2002 to 2016, Ron was the co-founder and CEO of Tenable Network Security. He helped grow the company to 20,000 customers, raise $300m in venture capital and grow revenues to $100m, setting up the company for an IPO in 2018. Prior to Tenable, Ron was a cyber industry pioneer and developed one of the first commercial network intrusion detection systems called Dragon, ran risk mitigation for the first cloud company, was deploying network honeypots in the mid 90s for the DOD and was a penetration tester for the NSA and got to participate in some of the nation’s first cyber exercises. Ron is involved in a variety of cyber nonprofits and think tanks including Defending Digital Campaigns, the Center for Internet Security, the National Security Institute and the Wilson Center. 

Tom Quinn is head of Enterprise Security for T. Rowe Price and serves as the firm’s Chief Information Security Officer.  He is responsible for Cyber and Information Security strategy and execution.  Before joining T. Rowe Price, he was Managing Director and Technology Controls Officer for JPMC Consumer and Community Banking.  Previously, Tom was Managing Director, Chief Information Security Officer for BNY Mellon and Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer for State Street Corporation.  He has held key cyber security and technology positions at Goldman Sachs and Prudential.  Tom earned a B.A. in Political Science from Old Dominion University and a M.S. in Information Technology Management from Naval Postgraduate School.  Tom has over 25 years of technology and cyber security experience in Financial Services, has served as a US Navy Officer during combat operations, is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).

HPE’s Primera SAN technology offers tier-0 storage capabilities with a simple to implement architecture and extreme resiliency. Organizations have a growing need for storing and managing unstructured data. This session will highlight the benefits of using BrickStor SP on Primera for secure NAS and review currently supported architectures and use cases.  

Key takeaways: 

• HPE Primera features and benefits 
• When to run BrickStor SP on Primera and the value of the combined solution 
• Architecture options for leveraging the solutions together and example use cases 

Speakers:

Jonathan Halstuch is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of RackTop Systems. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Georgia Tech as well as a master’s degree in engineering and technology management from George Washington University. With over 20-years of experience as an engineer, technologist, and manager for the federal government he provides organizations the most efficient and secure data management solutions to accelerate operations while reducing the burden on admins, users and executives.

Chris Tinker is an HPE Distinguished Technologist reporting into the Office of the North America CTO. He is responsible for driving co-innovation with R&D and translating technical strategy into specific business outcomes. 

With a career that has spanned more than 20 years in enterprise technology, Chris has held various deep technical roles. His innovations can be found in programs, products and patents across the HPE portfolio. He provides global leadership and vision for infrastructure and platform architecture enabling the data driven enterprise.

Overview of how to leverage TDM in real-world examples. We’ll review general applications as well as specific use cases for healthcare and finance.  

Key concepts work across multiple verticals: 

• TDM HSM model (Hierarchical Storage Management) 
• Integrating with cloud connectivity 
• S3 doesn’t only mean Amazon – working with any S3 object storage 
• Security – don’t end up with a leaky bucket 

Presented by:

Dave Hughes is the Director of Sales Engineering at RackTop Systems. Dave leads the sales engineering team and has more than 20 years of IT experience that includes hands on management in Information systems design, implementation, administration, and support. 

Learn how insider threats operate from a former NSA engineer.

Gain the knowledge you need to develop an efficient insider threat program. Find out how to better detect and identify unusual and unauthorized behavior so you can intervene before your team’s intellectual property has been compromised. Most importantly, you will develop an understanding of how you can implement a Zero Trust architecture designed to withstand any attack – inside or otherwise.

• Bolster existing programs and capabilities
• Review how to simplify the problem and highlight conspicuous behavior
• Discussion of real world events when data theft could have been prevented
• Review economic benefits
• Q&A

Presented by:

Jonathan Halstuch is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of RackTop Systems. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Georgia Tech as well as a master’s degree in engineering and technology management from George Washington University. With over 20-years of experience as an engineer, technologist, and manager for the federal government he provides organizations the most efficient and secure data management solutions to accelerate operations while reducing the burden on admins, users and executives.

A concerted effort must be made to protect critical sensitive data and not just the network. The data is what an adversary is trying to steal and manipulate. A zero trust approach to data security doesn’t rely on a trusted core like traditional solutions. Instead, zero trust strives to improve data security and reduce complexity. This model can be leveraged by a project or organization of any size and ensures continuous compliance with guidelines such as the JSIG/RMF and CMMC.

Presented by:

Jonathan Halstuch is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of RackTop Systems. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Georgia Tech as well as a master’s degree in engineering and technology management from George Washington University. With over 20-years of experience as an engineer, technologist, and manager for the federal government he provides organizations the most efficient and secure data management solutions to accelerate operations while reducing the burden on admins, users and executives.

Mix up a drink, pop a frozen pretzel in the toaster oven, and tune in to get a behind the scenes look at what’s next for RackTop including new features and our long-term vision. Prost!

Hosted by:

Eric Bednash is the CEO and co-founder of RackTop Systems. He has spent the past 25 years as an innovator and entrepreneur, designing products and solutions to solve challenging Extreme Data problems. He has co-founded prior companies focused on delivering IT based services and products within the DoD Intel and Financial communities. Eric leads the strategic vision for RackTop’s data storage and management products.

Jonathan Halstuch is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of RackTop Systems. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Georgia Tech as well as a master’s degree in engineering and technology management from George Washington University. With over 20-years of experience as an engineer, technologist, and manager for the federal government he provides organizations the most efficient and secure data management solutions to accelerate operations while reducing the burden on admins, users and executives.