Steve Winterfeld, Senior Director of Security Strategy at Akamai is our feature interview this week. News from John Hickenlooper, Amazon, Google, Personal Capital, SecureSet, Ping Identity, Coalfire, Webroot, Red Canary and a lot more!
Hick throws his hat in the Senate race
Hick is in the Senate race. Space Command will be in Colorado. The Colorado housing market is cooling. Google bringing non-profit money to Colorado. Personal Capital is expanding in Denver. Flatiron School acquires SecureSet. Ping Identity named a leader in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant. Blogs from Coalfire, Webroot and Red Canary.
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This week’s news:
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John Hickenlooper running for U.S. Senate against Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner
Congressman: Space Command’s initial home will be Colorado
Denver among HQ2 finalist cities that have seen real estate markets cool after being rebuffed by Amazon
Google Impact Challenge to give $1 million to Colorado nonprofits
Bay Area fintech moves into new Denver office with room for 30% growth
Ping Identity Files for IPO
Flatiron School acquires SecureSet to provide leading Cybersecurity education worldwide
Ping Identity Named a Leader Once Again in Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for Access Management
Coalfire - When Checking the Box Results in Two Zero Days and Root
Cybersecurity in Schools: What Families Need to Know | Webroot
It’s all fun and games until ransomware deletes the shadow copies
Job Openings:
Ping Identity - GRC Analyst
CHI - Director Security Engineering
Visa - Cybersecurity Engineer (Identity and Access Management)
State of Colorado - Senior Advisor on Election Security and Preparedness
PwC - Cybersecurity - Cloud Architecture - Senior Manager
Charlotte's Web - Information Technology Security Analyst
Kutak Rock LLP - Information Security Risk Analyst
US Department of Defense - Cybersecurity Management Officer
Code42 - Security Solutions Relationship Manager
Imperva - Sr. Sales Engineer
Upcoming Events:
This Week and Next:
GDPR Meetup - Ping Pong and Food - 8/27
EmergingTechFan - AI is a Team Sport - 8/27
ISC2 Pikes Peak - August Chapter Meeting - 8/28
CTA - Blockchain Training Conference - 8/28-30
CSA - August 2019 - CSA Rockies Game - 8/29
ISSA Colorado Springs - Peak Cyber 3-5 September! - 9/3-5
SecureSet - Capture the Flag – All Levels - 9/4
Splunk 1st Thursdays @ Top Golf - 9/5
Following the evolution from Deming, TPS, Lean, DevOps, DevSecOps - 9/5
INTERFACE-Denver - 9/5
FIRST FRIDAY! CYBERSECURITY SOCIAL & MIXER - 9/6
CISSP Seminar Series Domains 5 (Identity & Access Mgt) & 8 (SW Dev Sec) - 9/7
Other Notable Upcoming Events
SecureWorld 2019 - 10/29-30
View our events page for a full list of upcoming events
* Thanks to CJ Adams for our intro and exit! If you need any voiceover work, you can contact him here at carrrladams@gmail.com. Check out his other voice work here.
* Intro and exit song: "The Language of Blame" by The Agrarians is licensed under CC BY 2.0
