176 - 8/17 - Sara Avery, Security Sales Executive

Sara Avery, account executive at Zscaler is our feature guest this week. News from: Vertafore, Otter, DirectDefense, Guild Education, Pax8, Ibotta, Bonusly, ChebaHut, TrackVia, Datavail, OneTrust, Stream, Coalfire, Optiv, Security Pursuit, and a lot more!

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This week’s news:

• Join the Colorado = Security Slack channel

• Denver-based Vertafore acquired in $5.35 billion deal

• Colorado public companies are making progress on getting women on boards. See who's leading the pack.

• Keeping It Clean with OtterBox This School Year

• Meet the Colorado companies on the 2020 Inc. 5000 list

• Boulder in-app messaging startup Stream lands $15 million Series A to grow staff

• After a small Colorado city paid cyber attackers a ransom, there’s concern about the rest of the state

• Coalfire - Key scoping factors when pursuing ISO 27001 certification

• Understanding Mobile Voting’s Opportunities and Challenges

• Optiv Releases 2020 Cyber Threat Intelligence Estimate Exploring Vulnerability, Attack Method and Vertical Industry Trends

• Security Pursuit - HOW BUSINESSES CAN PREPARE FOR THE COMING IOT SURGE

Job Openings:

• University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus - Director of IT Security and Compliance

• CORHIO - Cyber Security Officer

• Ball Aerospace - Information Systems Security Officer

• Twitter - Staff Product Manager - Security, Privacy and Data Protection

• Blue Team Alpha - Senior Security Engineer – Incident Response

• Nelnet - Cybersecurity Engineer (Server)

• Zoom - Sr Security Analyst (SOC)

• Elevations CU - Information Security Engineer

• Charles Schwab - Senior Cloud Security Engineer

• Galvanize - Cybersecurity Curriculum Development - SME

Upcoming Events:

This Week and Next:

• CSA - August Meeting - 8/18

• C.Springs ISSA - August Online Series – Session 2 - 8/20

• Denver ISSA - A Behavior Centric Approach to Securing Data - 8/25

• ISC2 Pikes Peak - August Chapter Meeting - 8/26

• ASIS - WOMEN IN SECURITY COFFEE CHAT W/ KERI DARLING - 8/27

• DC303 - August Meeting - 8/28

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