130 - 8/26 - Steve Winterfeld, Security Strategy at Akamai

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:

• Join the Colorado = Security Slack channel

• 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