119 - 5/27 - Daniel Pietragallo, Senior Assistant Attorney General

Daniel Pietragallo, Senior Assistant Attorney General at the Colorado Attorney General office is our feature guest this week. News from: Ibotta, CircleCI, Coalfire, Optiv, Ping Identity, Red Canary and a lot more!

Billionaire is very rich

Robert Smith, owner of many Denver companies, gives a lot of his money to some students. That’s really cool Fivethirtyeight.com talks about Denver’s tech scene. It’s a bad place to be a foreclosure specialist. Drones are coming to Garfield airport. Dish keeps buying parts of EchoStar. Ibotta is changing the way we check out. CircleCI is coming to Denver. Coalfire releases a couple new cloud services. Optiv releases a new research. PingID partners with Citrix. Red Canary shares research.

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This week’s news:

• Join the Colorado = Security Slack channel

• Denver’s Tech Boom: How One City is Building the Next-Generation of Thriving Businesses

• Colorado foreclosure rates lowest in the country

• Drone training facility coming to Garfield County airport

• Denver-based Ibotta aims to make checkout 'fun and memorable' with new payment system

• San Francisco-based CircleCI opens its second-largest office in Denver

• Coalfire Launches Pair of New Cloud Services to Enhance Secure Cloud Offering Portfolio

• Optiv Security Cyber-Intelligence Report Reveals State of the Cyber-Threat Landscape

• PingID MFA and Citrix Analytics: Better Together Security

• Red Canary blog - A Pastebin scraper, steganography, and a persistent Linux backdoor

Job Openings:

• Ping Identity - Product Security Team Lead

• Ping Identity - Jr. Product Security Engineer

• Cognizant - Sr. IT Security Analyst

• TTEC - Information Security Principal Engineer

• Recurly - Lead Security Engineer

• Zayo Group - Cyber Security Analyst lll

• Transamerica - Cyber Security Engineer II

• Cyxtera Technologies - Junior Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery Analyst

• Colorado State University - Intern (Security Architecture)

• FireEye - Security Consulting Project Coordinator

Upcoming Events:

This Week and Next:

• GDPR MeetUp - Social - 1 Year under GDPR - 5/28

• ISSA Denver - Happy Hour - 5/30

• Checkpoint - Cloud. Mobile. Threat Prevention. Welcome to the Future of Cyber Security - 5/30

• CTA - An Innovative Look Into Ethics - 5/31

• Office Hours with Davis Graham & Stubbs - 5/31

• IAM Meetup - IAM Networking Event - 6/4

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

• Techstars West Slope Startup Week - 6/5-8

• Splunk Meetup - First Thursday @ Top Golf - 6/6

• First Friday! Cybersecurity Social & Mixer - 6/7

• ISSA COS - CISSP Prep - 6/7 (and several more weeks)

Other Notable Upcoming Events

• ISC2 - Secure Summit Denver - 6/28

• Denver CyberSecurity Conference - 7/31

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