120 - 6/3 - Competing with Red Rocks CC and LogRhythm

James Carder, LogRhythm’s CISO, Joe Murdock Cyber Security Program Lead at Red Rocks Community College, and Matt Adrian, a current Red Rocks student, discuss Singapore’s Cyber Defender’s Discovery Camp as our feature interview this week. News from: CDOT, UCCS, SecureSet, Swimlane, Optiv, Webroot, Security Pursuit and a lot more!

There’s something about a train… that’s magic

Investigating a train from Pueblo to Ft Collins. UCCS has been doing a facial recognition program on campus. Four Denver companies building a new research campus in Antartica. Deets on the Colorado coding boot camps. Are vets the solution to the security staff gap? Swimlane raises a B round. Optiv is a strong number 2 in IR. Webroot talks machine learning. Security Pursuit asks the big question - will biometrics get rid of passwords?

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This week’s news:

• Join the Colorado = Security Slack channel

• Colorado Department of Transportation seeking proposals for 173-mile Front Range passenger rail line

• Colorado students unknowingly photographed for facial recognition study

• 4 Denver companies chosen to build a modern research campus in Antarctica

• Inside Colorado coding boot camps: Who reaps the benefits?

• A cybersecurity worker shortage in Colorado has the industry tapping veterans to fill the gap

• Swimlane takes 23m in B round

• Optiv Security Recognized with Second-Highest Score in Current Offering Category for Cybersecurity Incident Response Services in Independent Analyst Report

• What Defines a Machine Learning-Based Threat Intelligence Platform? | Webroot

• Security Pursuit blog - Will biometrics replace passwords?

Job Openings:

• Ping Identity - Manager of Product Security

• Ping Identity - Jr. Product Security Engineer

• Nexthealth - Chief Information Security Officer

• Bank Of America - Sr. Information Security Officer

• Alteryx - Sr. Cyber Security Engineer

• Great West - Architect Security

• Tri-State Generation - Cyber Security Engineer I, II, III or Senior

• MedKeeper - Information Security Engineer

• Department of the Interior - Senior Advisor - Information Assurance (Cyber Security), Industrial Control Systems

• City of Arvada - IT Security Specialist

Upcoming Events:

This Week and Next:

• 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)

• CTA - CTA 101 - 6/12

• SecureSet - HACKING 101: INTRO TO WIFI WITH WOMEN WHO CODE - 6/13

• FAIR Institute Colorado - Chapter Meeting - 6/14

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