Colorado = Security Podcast

In this episode: Alex sits down with Joe Bonnell, CEO and Founder at Alchemy Security. News from Bad Axe Throwing, Amazon, root9B, Optiv, ManagedMethods, and Webroot. Full show notes: https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/6/9/19-612-show-notes Axes hurdling toward Denver Not sure where to take your sweetie on your next hot date? Canadian axe-throwing may be just the thing. This week we discovered that a lot of Coloradans don't bother to go to work, Amazon robots may be coming, a big time General joins the advisory board for root9B, Optiv and ManagedMethods are recognized as leaders, and IT has moved to the Cloud, why hasn't security? Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates - https://www.colorado-security.com/. We're continually working to improve the show, and appreciate the feedback we get from our listeners. If you discover any audio issues, or have suggestions for our format, let us know. This week's episode is available on Soundcloud, iTunes and the Google Play st

In this episode: Robb interviews Ed Rios & Jenifer Furda of the National Cybersecurity Center. News from LogRhythm, Optiv, Coalfire, Janus, and a robot security guard company in Lakewood. Full show notes: https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/6/2/18-65-show-notes RIP Denver video rental scene Can you believe we're already in June? Us either. Summer is upon us... kids are out of school and robotic security guards are coming to get you. Join us this week as we plumb the depths of security in the Colorado community and find a few nuggets worth discussing. My favorite is Coalfire's anatomy of paying a ransom. But don't miss the news of the death of Denver's last video rental store. Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates - https://www.colorado-security.com/. We're continually working to improve the show, and appreciate the feedback we get from our listeners. If you discover any audio issues, or have suggestions for our format, let us know. This week's episode is available

In this episode: Robb interviews Debbi Blyth, CISO for the State of Colorado. News with Alex and Drew heading into the holiday weekend. Happy Memorial Day! This week Robb is on vacation and Drew Labbo fills in for the news. Ping is hosting their Cloud Identity Summit in Chicago this summer. SecureSet moves their Denver training facility to Blake St. Root9B is partnering with Chertoff group for expansion. Top Denver CEOs are all in the tech field. Blog posts from Red Canary and LogRhythm. Send your high schooler to CyberPatriot Camp this summer and finally, Brett Bradshaw leaves Ball Aerospace to move to Gogo Internet. Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates - https://www.colorado-security.com/. We're continually working to improve the show, and appreciate the feedback we get from our listeners. If you discover any audio issues, or have suggestions for our format, let us know. This week's episode is available on Soundcloud, iTunes and the Google Play store. Reach out with a

In this episode: Robb interviews Andrea Young, President of the Colorado Technology Association. News from Shark Tank coming to Colorado, Denver Startup Week, Optiv, WebRoot and more! Full show notes here: https://alex-wood-jp6m.squarespace.com/config/pages/5887d8c66a4963190314e498 Vote now to see Colorado = Security at the Denver Startup Week  The Denver economy is really heating up. Record lows of unemployment, increasing business starts, and an active tech scene make this the best place to be in 2017. This week we feature Colorado Technology Association head Andrea Young, who shares the vision of CTA with us, and tells us how to get involved. Plus Shark Tank is coming to Denver, Optiv Evantix IT World Award, insights from RMISC, and a whole lot more. Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates - https://www.colorado-security.com/. We're continually working to improve the show, and appreciate the feedback we get from our listeners. If you discover any audio issues, or have sug

In this episode: Alex interviews the Highlands Ranch High School CyberPatriots team, Robb and Alex re-cap the best RMISC yet, and news from Xcel Energy, Ping Identity, LogRhythm, and a breach in Larimer County. Full show notes here: https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/5/12/15-515-show-notes RMISC Recap - And meet some CyberPatriots Ahhhh.... we made it. Last week was RMISC, the Super Bowl of security in Denver. This week we debrief about the show, share our favorite (and not so favorite) moments. If you didn't make it, you might want to tune out this week, as we're likely to make you depressed for having missed. We also discussed the curious case of a County Clerk in Larimer County who posted PII for citizens. We closed up the show with an interview with the Highlands Ranch High School CyberPatriots team.  Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates - https://www.colorado-security.com/. We're continually working to improve the show, and appreciate the feedback we get fro

In this episode: Robb sat down with security maverick Chris Roberts. News from Convercent, ProtectWise, Coalfire, LogRhythm and more. For full show notes: https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/5/6/13-58-show-notes RMISC 17 descends - Colorado will never be the same We've been talking about it since the podcast started, and RMISC is finally upon us. This week we discussed what to look for at the conference, a new national TV show coming to Denver, a privacy law dies in the Colorado legislature, and news from Convercent, ProtectWise, Coalfire, LogRhythm and more. Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates - https://www.colorado-security.com/. We're continually working to improve the show, and appreciate the feedback we get from our listeners. If you discover any audio issues, or have suggestions for our format, let us know. This week's episode is available on Soundcloud, iTunes and the Google Play store. Reach out with any questions or comments to info@colorado-security.co

In this episode: Robb sat down with co-founder and CEO of Swimlane, Cody Cornell. Plus news from Oracle, LogRhythm, ProtectWise, SecureSet, and WebRoot makes a mistake. Full show notes here: https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/4/28/podcast-13-51-show-notes Swimlane has nothing to do with water US News confirms what we already knew - Denver is the best place to list in the US. Oracle is creating an internal start-up center in Colorado, Chipotle is in the news as the victim of the latest point of sale breach, WebRoot's whoops causes customers to identify critical windows files as malicious, and a whole lot more this week. Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates - https://www.colorado-security.com/. We're continually working to improve the show, and appreciate the feedback we get from our listeners. If you discover any audio issues, or have suggestions for our format, let us know. This week's episode is available on Soundcloud, iTunes and the Google Play store. Reach o

In this episode: Robb was under the weather so Steve Knight, Senior Director with Kaiser Permanente, sat in as co-host for the news. Robb sat down with DISH Networks CISO John Everson. Plus news from CyberGRX, Coalfire, LogRhythm, Google, and an imposter at Denver Health. John Everson dishes on Security This week we welcome guest co-host Steve Knight. Steve is Senior Director of Risk Solutions and Innovation at Kaiser Permanente. A number of AWS services have now been FedRAMP certified by Coalfire/Veris. CyberGRX gets another $20M in funding to continue their growth. LogRhythm is putting out a series of security awareness posters and the first one is on passwords. Denver Health had an issue the reminds us that physical security can't be taken for granted. Google published an ebook on their standards for tiered access as part of their BeyondCorp project. Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates - https://www.colorado-security.com/. We're continually working to improve the sho

Feature interview about GDPR with James Keese, former Privacy Officer of Western Union, and Stephen Edmonds, Director of GRC for Ping Identity. Plus news from Optiv, LogRhythm, WebRoot, root9b, Managed Methods and much more! For full show notes: https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/4/13/podcast-11-417-show-notes DATES IN MAY 2018 ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR This week we learned a lot about GDPR, it'll be here sooner than you think. Colorado is once again proving to be a technology and security powerhouse by being #4 in VC money for Q1 and #2 for tech/developer jobs. Optiv, WebRoot, and ProtectWise made some big hires. LogRhythm and Optiv are BFFs. Finally, Managed Methods is joining the AWS partner marketplace. Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates - https://www.colorado-security.com/. We're continually working to improve the show, and appreciate the feedback we get from our listeners. If you discover any audio issues, or have suggestions for our format, let us know

https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/4/9/podcast-10-410-show-notes In this episode: Feature interview with Cal Fussman, Writer at Large for Esquire Magazine. News from Optiv, Websense, LogRhythm, and startups and STEM in Denver! Starting it Up in Denver This week Robb is on vacation and we have Drew Labbo as guest host with Alex. We discuss a couple blog posts from Optiv and Websense. LogRhythm wins a Best SEIM award from SANS. There are more STEM jobs than job seekers in Denver and Denver is an up and coming area for startups. Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates - https://www.colorado-security.com/. We're continually working to improve the show, and appreciate the feedback we get from our listeners. If you discover any audio issues, or have suggestions for our format, let us know. This week's episode is available on Soundcloud, iTunes and the Google Play store. Reach out with any questions or comments to info@colorado-security.com Feature interview: Cal Fuss

Feature interview with ProtectWise Founder and CEO Scott Chasin. News from OWL, CyberGRX, LogRhythm, and more! For full show notes: https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/4/1/podcast-9-43-show-notes Last Podcast Ever We hope you enjoyed your April Fools as much as we did. (No, we're not shutting down the podcast). This week, learn about OWL, CyberGRX and local CyberPatriot teams. Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates - https://www.colorado-security.com/. We're continually working to improve the show, and appreciate the feedback we get from our listeners. If you discover any audio issues, or have suggestions for our format, let us know. This week's episode is available on Soundcloud, iTunes and the Google Play store. Reach out with any questions or comments to info@colorado-security.com Feature interview: Scott Chasin, CEO and co-founder of ProtectWise joined us for the feature interview this week. Scott is a longtime Colorado security professional. During the inter

Feature interview with TeleTech CISO Sam Masiello. News from Hosting.com, Optiv, Ping Identity, Red Canary, InteliSecure and more! For full show notes: https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/3/23/podcast-8-327-show-notes So it's the San Franciscan's fault my rent is so high?! Lots of tech workers (and tech jobs!) coming to Denver from SF. So far our listener survey feedback has been that folks want more of everything (news, job postings, events, and interviews). We'll try to keep you as plugged in with local news as we can, without increasing the length of the weekly shows. We had Alex back for this week's episode, and he didn't miss a beat.   One week left for our listener survey! Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates - https://www.colorado-security.com/. We're continually working to improve the show, and appreciate the feedback we get from our listeners. If you discover any audio issues, or have suggestions for our format, let us know. This week's episode is availa

For Show Notes with links that work: https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/3/16/podcast-7-320-show-notes March Madness Consumes Alex With Alex out of town for his annual March Madness trip, Matthew Sharp filled in admirably as co-host for this week's newscast. Robb gave a bit of a debrief about this week's SNOWFROC conference. And Matt revealed what's next on the agenda for his career - CISO for NYC headquartered Logicworks. While we're sad to have him leaving Colorado, we will stay in touch, and he mentioned to be on the lookout for Denver-area jobs for Logicworks. Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates, and our listener survey - https://www.colorado-security.com/. We're continually working to improve the show, and appreciate the feedback we get from our listeners. If you discover any audio issues, or have suggestions for our format, let us know. This week's episode is available on Soundcloud, iTunes and the Google Play store. Reach out with any questions or commen

For Show Notes with links that work: https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/3/11/podcast-6-313-show-notes Two Feature Interviews and... what's a SNOWFROC? This Thursday Denver OWASP's annual conference (SnowFROC - Front Range OWASP Conference) hits the Cable Center, come see Robb deliver the opening keynote presentation. Registration for RMISC is open now... early bird pricing available until 4/15.  Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates, and our listener survey - https://www.colorado-security.com/. We're continually working to improve the show, and appreciate the feedback we get from our listeners. If you discover any audio issues, or have suggestions for our format, let us know. This week's episode is available on Soundcloud, iTunes and the Google Play store. Reach out with any questions or comments to info@colorado-security.com Feature interview: We've got a 2-fer this week. Two feature interviews for the price of one. First, Alex sat down with Rock Lambros, Ch

For Show Notes with links that work: https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/3/3/podcast-5-36-show-notes We're Not #1 on the Cybersecurity500? If you aren't familiar with the Cybersecurity500, you're not alone. Check out this week's show to learn more about the list, and who DID top it. Hint: It's a Colorado security firm. We're continually working to improve the show, and appreciate the feedback we get from our listeners. If you discover any audio issues, or have suggestions for our format, let us know. This week's episode is available on Soundcloud, iTunes and the Google Play store. Reach out with any questions or comments to info@colorado-security.com Feature interview: This week Robb sat down with the first couple of security - Gail and Steve Coury. Gail is the VP of Security and Risk for Oracle's managed cloud services. Steve is the CISO for the city and county of Denver. During the interview they talked about their respective career paths to get where they are, shared a bit about the interes

For full show notes, visit: https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/2/22/podcast-4-227-show-notes One month down The last month has flown by. Thanks very much to the community for embracing what we're doing with Colorado = Security. We've got some great feedback on how to get better, and we're continuing to integrate that feedback into what we do here. Please reach out to us if you have more. For this episode we are going to move toward covering fewer articles, but in more depth.  This week's episode is available on Soundcloud, iTunes and the Google Play store. Reach out with any questions or comments to info@colorado-security.com Feature interview: This week Robb sat down with Brian Beyer, founder and CEO of Denver-based Red Canary. Red Canary is one of the up and comers in the security industry, and in the Colorado start-up scene. Learn about what they do, how Brian and the rest of the team got the idea, and why they picked Colorado for their company. I look forward to watching Red Canary grow ove

For full show notes, visit: https://www.colorado-security.com/home/2017/2/17/220-podcast-show-notes Survived another year of RSA Alex and Robb spent the last week in San Francisco for RSA conference. Lots of great learning, networking and socializing went on. Proud to say that I ran into MANY of the local Colorado security crew out in San Francisco. We were well represented.  This week's episode is available on Soundcloud, iTunes and the Google Play store. Reach out with any questions or comments to info@colorado-security.com Feature interview: This week Alex sat down with Don Mapes, Director of Internal Audit at Triangle Petroleum and President of ISACA Denver. ISACA's Denver chapter has consistently brought high quality audit, compliance and risk training and networking to the Denver area since the 1970's. Yes, that long.  Don shares about his 20+ years experience helping grow the security community in Colorado, talks about programs and community, and shares about the CyberPatriot and CyberGirls prog

For all the functional links, to go: www.colorado-security.com/home/2017/2/…t-show-notes Week two in the books Well, the podcast for 2/6 was a bit rough (true fact - we got to record the whole newscast for the first podcast twice, due to technical difficulties). But this week went a lot smoother. We're looking forward to getting your feedback on what you like, what you don't like, and what you'd like to see added. Based on last week's feedback, this week we've added a summary of interesting jobs we've seen posted. As always, this week's episode is available on Soundcloud page here. But we're now also listed on iTunes and Google Play. Reach out with any questions or comments to info@colorado-security.com Feature interview: This week Alex and Robb sat down with Drew Labbo, CISO at Denver Health. Drew told us about his career, how he got into security, how he got such a great job, and what keeps him busy at work. If you don't know Drew, I recommend you reach out. He's a fine fellow. Local security news: Sec

Feature interview: For the first episode we thought it would be nice to interview each other, and explain what this whole podcast is about. Robb and Alex talk about professional backgrounds, why Colorado=Security exists, and why this is a movement you should get behind. Local security news: Optiv IPO halted by private equity purchase by KKR http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2016/12/06/optiv-ipo-halted-by-private-equity-purchase.html First 200000 square feet of Hines' under-construction Denver tower taken by Gates & Optiv http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2017/01/23/first-200-000-square-feet-of-hines-under.html Colorado based acting U.S. attorney going after cyber criminals http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2017/02/02/colorados-actingu-s-attorney-going-after-cyber.html Coalfire buys Veris and takes aim at big competitors http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2016/12/21/coalfire-buys-another-growing-cybersecurity.html CenturyLink acquiring Level3 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20