In this episode: Matt Shufeldt, CISO at Cognizant Health, is our feature guest this week. News from: Level3, CenturyLink, MJ Freeway, Denver Art Museum, Red Canary, LogRhythm and a lot more! Full show notes: https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/10/29/40-116-matt-shufeldt-ciso-at-cognizant-health
We are not smarter than this 7th grader
How many 7th graders have earned a cool $25,000 for their invention? One in Colorado did. The CenturyLink acquisition of Level3 is finally complete. Seven security companies make the top 100 tech companies in Colorado. Hackers are targeting the cannabis industry. A Denver museum gets pwned. Women focused accelerator gets funds. And blogs by local security companies.
Did you catch our trivia question? Be the first to reply to info@colorado-security.com with the right answer and get any $25 item from the Colorado = Security store.
Feature interview:
Matt Shufeldt, CISO for Cognizant Healthcare, sat with Robb. Matt told the story of building his career in security, working at Sports Authority (through the good times and bad), growing a new security program at Cognizant, and gave advice for those looking to join the industry.
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Local security news:
Colorado = Security store! Buy things now
Robb on 9News talking online security
Meet the Colorado 7th grader named 'America's Top Young Scientist'
Level3 now a part of CenturyLink
Top 100 Colorado Tech Companies
MJ Freeway works to stay on course amid pitfalls in marijuana tracking contracts
Denver Art Museum warns donors, members, employees after sensitive data breach
Colorado accelerator among 20 to get funding bump from the feds
Red Canary blog: The Scariest Threats? The Ones We Cannot See
LogRhythm blog: SCADA Network Security Monitoring
Job Openings:
Virtela - Director of Systems Security
Quantix - Sr. Manager, Incident Response
Jewish Family Service of Colorado - Compliance Manager
Western Union - Director, Information Governance
IHS Markit - Compliance Training and Awareness Director
GuidePoint - Vendor Relations Manager
TIAA - Info Security Analyst
Hitachi Vantara - Application Security Specialist - Intern
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This Week and Next:
DenSec - Meetup South - 11/6
SecureSet - Hacking 101 Workshop: AppSec - 11/7
CSA - CCSK Training - 11/8
CTA - APEX Awards - 11/8
2017 CSA-CO Fall Summit - 11/9
ISSA DEN - GDPR Training - 11/9
ISSA DEN - Nov Chapter Meetings - 11/14-11/15
CTA - Insights Series - Are you Prepared for AI in the Workplace? - 11/15
ISSA COS - November Chapter Meetings - 11/15-16
ISSA Denver - WIS meeting - 11/16
ISACA Denver - November Chapter Meeting - 11/16
DenSec - Meetup North - 11/16
ISC2 - Steven B. Armstrong, CISSP - TOPIC: Enterprise Risk Management - 11/16
Other Notable Upcoming Events:
Optiv - 2017 Solution and Program Insight Focus Group: Application Security (AppSec)
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* 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
