95 - 12/10 - Richard Bird, Executive at Ping Identity

In this episode:

Richard Bird, Chief Customer Information Officer at Ping Identity is our feature interview this week. News from: Left Hand Robotics, Molson Coors, Ball Corp, Exponential Impact, Red Canary, Ping Identity, LogRhythm, Swimlane, Webroot, ProtectWise and a lot more!

Just in time! Let these robots worry about my snow

Left Hand Robotics can take care of your snow worries. Molson Coors and Ball Corp are well managed. Exponential Impact is getting some extra fuel. Louisville is stealing all our best ideas! Red Canary gives advice for security careers. Ping has a new product. LogRhythm, Swimlane and Webroot all won some awards this week. It’s prediction season!

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Local security news:

• Join the Colorado = Security Slack channel

• Colorado startup starts shipping snow-fighting robots, but expects lawn maintenance to be the money-maker

• Molson Coors, Ball Corp. lead Colorado companies on Management Top 250 list

• These will be the top 10 housing markets in 2019

• Tech accelerator Exponential Impact earns $750,000 injection

• CSU-Global Partners with Colorado Technology Association

• Red Canary blog - Surfing the Mid-Career Wave: 5 Steps to Making Your Next Move

• Ping Identity previews new product for app developers

• LogRhythm Positioned as a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management

• Swimlane Commands Recognition in Four Awards Competitions

• Webroot Recognized as Trail Blazer in 2018 Radicati Endpoint Security Quadrant

• 8 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2019

• ProtectWise blog - 60 Cybersecurity Predictions For 2019

Job Openings:

• Ping Identity - GRC Analyst

• Ping Identity - Security Program Business Analyst

• Western Union - IT Senior Manager, Internal Audit

• NREL - Chief Cybersecurity Engineer

• CenturyLink - Senior Security Research Engineer

• Elastic - Application Security Engineer

• Bank of America - Cybersecurity Ethical Hacking Analyst

• Synoptek - Sr. Security Consultant

• GuidePoint Software - Splunk Security Engineer

• DarkOwl - IT Infrastructure Specialist

• Micro Focus - Security Strategist

Upcoming Events:

This Week and Next:

• ISSA / ISACA Holiday Bash - 12/10

• SecureSet - Denver War Games: Systems Security 1 - Linux Security - 12/10

• SecureSet - Denver War Games: Systems Security 2 - Windows Security - 12/12

• SecureSet - Nadean Tanner - Metasploit Pro Demonstration and Q&A - 12/13

• SecureSet - Denver War Games: Capture the Flag - 12/17

Other Notable Upcoming Events

• SnowFROC - 3/14

• Rocky Mountain Information Security Conference (RMISC) - 6/4-6

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