85 - 9/24 - Vance Brown and Hannah Parsons, National Cybersecurity Center

In this episode:

Vance Brown and Hannah Parsons of the National Cybersecurity Center, is our feature interview this week. News from: Great American Beer Fest, Techstars, Western Union, Arrow Electronics, Adobe, Marketo, Optiv, root9B, Intelisecure, Virtual Armor, Red Canary, Ping Identity, Zvelo, CenturyLink and a lot more!

Want a beer? You’re in the right place

People are drinking an awful lot of beer in Denver this week. I-70 is a good place for driving without drivers. What? Techstars, Western Union and Arrow are all looking to innovate. Marketo gets paid. Colorado has 4 top MSSPs. Stories from Red Canary, Ping Identity and Zvelo. And CenturyLink gets a new CSO.

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Local security news:

• Join the Colorado = Security Slack channel

• Colorado brewers win 30 medals at Great American Beer Festival

• Inrix ranks Colorado's Interstate 70 among top U.S. routes for driverless truck deployment

• Techstars and Western Union team up for new innovation accelerator

• Arrow Electronics to build 'Colorado Open Lab' in headquarters to advance smart city technology

• Adobe to buy Marketo for $4.75 billion in largest acquisition to date

• Top 100 MSSPs

• Red Canary blog: Detecting MSXSL Abuse in the Wild

• The Burden of State Data Privacy Laws: A Q&A with Robb Reck from Ping Identity

• Zvelo blog: What is Malicious Cryptocurrency Mining? | History and Prevention

• CenturyLink hires former Apple executive as new security chief

Job Openings:

• Ping Identity - Cloud Security Architect

• Ping Identity - Product Security Engineer

• Ping - NOC/SOC Manager (SRE Manager, Cloud Operations)

• Journey - Cryptographic Software Engineer

• Journey - Security Architect

• Splunk - Security Markets Specialist

• Zillow - IT Compliance Analyst

• Western Union - Senior Manager, Information Security Incident Response

• FireEye - Principal Penetration Tester- Red Team

• RiverPoint - IT Security Manager

• Transamerica - Manager, IT and Info Security Risk Management

Upcoming Events:

This Week and Next:

• C-Suite Awards Celebration 2018 - 9/25

• GDPR Meetup - Encryption for GDPR Compliance, Fact and Fiction - 9/25

• NCC - Cyber for Executives - 9/26

• SecureSet - Capture the Flag - 9/28

• Secureset - Expert Series: Chris Martinez - 10/4

• Lockton Mountain West Cyber Day - 10/4

• Colorado Springs Cybersecurity - First Friday - Cybersecurity Social & Mixer - 10/5

Other Notable Upcoming Events

• SecureWorld Denver - 10/31-11/1

• CTA - Apex Awards - 11/7

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