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Vincent Berk

Vincent Berk

CTO and Chief Architect Security

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Vincent Berk is CTO and Chief Security Architect at Riverbed and is responsible for setting the vision and strategy for the network performance monitoring (NPM) business unit in the cyber security space. Berk joined Riverbed through the acquisition of FlowTraq, an enterprise security analytics company where he served as founder and CEO. Previously, Berk taught computer science at Dartmouth College. He has a Ph.D. in machine learning and large-scale data analytics from Leiden University and holds several patents in the application of large-scale data analytics in cyber security.

Posts from Vincent Berk

Parallels Between the Roman Empire and Zero Trust Network Security

14-Jun-2021 • by

Parallels Between the Roman Empire and Zero Trust Network Security

 It seems that the term “zero-trust” is emerging as the latest buzzword in network security and cybersecurity communities. To explain it, one can look to...
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New Data Security Challenges in the Rush to the Cloud

27-Jan-2021 • by

New Data Security Challenges in the Rush to the Cloud

 The challenges of working from home have caused organizations to reevaluate how they look at their networks and the data that lives on them. The...
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The Golden Age of Spear Phishing

16-Apr-2020 • by

The Golden Age of Spear Phishing

 I get it, everybody is working from home, and it is changing things on the network. The limits of VPNs have been pushed, stretched, and...
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18-Dec-2019 • by

From Big Data Management to Cyber Hunting Security, What to Expect in 2020

 In many ways, the technology topics that have been brewing for much of 2019—think big data, cyber hunting, Internet of Things (IoT), 5G, customer preferences...
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AI and ML in Digital Experience Management

19-Nov-2019 • by

AI and ML in Digital Experience Management

 Almost 60 years ago the term artificial intelligence (AI) was coined by John McCarthy at a workshop at Dartmouth College and it spurred a flurry...
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Perfect Security is Like Achieving Lightspeed

14-May-2019 • by

Perfect Security is Like Achieving Lightspeed

 In my previous post, I discussed one of my favorite topics: The Heisenberg Principle of Security vs. Privacy. There is another law of physics I...
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01-May-2019 • by

The Heisenberg Principle of Security vs. Privacy

 Often spoken in a single breath—security and privacy—they are nonetheless orthogonal quantities in many aspects. Enforcing security often means compromising on privacy, and vice versa:...
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Data Lake vs. Data Leak

28-Mar-2019 • by

Data Lake vs. Data Leak

 The advent of scalable enterprise search based on (amongst other things) Lucene-based storage clusters has brought about a renaissance in analytics techniques. Knowledge discovery across the...
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Do We Have a Chance Against Well-Funded Attack Teams?

25-Mar-2019 • by

Do We Have a Chance Against Well-Funded Attack Teams?

 Recently I was pondering some of the observations of the recent CrowdStrike Global Threat Report, which is an excellent read, but might lead one to...
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Five Ways the State of Security Will Evolve in 2019

14-Feb-2019 • by

Five Ways the State of Security Will Evolve in 2019

 A few months back, my colleagues made several predictions for technologies in 2019—everything from artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to hybrid cloud, blockchain...
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