278 - 9/8 - Jason Hayes, President of Colorado CSA

Our feature guest this week is Jason Hayes, President of Colorado CSA, interviewed by Frank Victory. News from Elitch Gardens, Xcel, EchoStar, Palantir, DaVita, Swimlane and a lot more!

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This week’s news:

• New Colorado area code rolls out for dozens of counties

• After years of doubt, Elitch Gardens may stick around for a while

• Space Case: Donald Trump's Rocky Relationship With Colorado

• Xcel says it needs to spend $22 billion to keep up with potential demand from Colorado data centers by 2040

• Englewood-based EchoStar gives up wireless network independence for enough cash to survive

• Palantir is Colorado’s highest-valued company — and at center of controversy — five years after move to Denver

• How They Got In — DaVita Inc.

• Colorado Adds AI-Generated Deepfakes to Revenge Porn, Child Exploitation Laws

• Colorado Delays AI Act Compliance: What Lawyers and Business Leaders Need to Know

• When the Government Can See Everything: How Palantir Is Mapping the Nation’s Data

• Swimlane Announces Strategic Leadership Appointments to Accelerate Push to Agentic AI Security Operations

Upcoming Events:

• Check out the full calendar

• Denver CSA - CCZT - Study Group - Session 2 (Virtual) - 9/10

• ISSA Denver - September Chapter Meeting - 9/10

• Denver CSA - Beyond Patching - Prioritizing Cloud Workload Risk with Exposure Management - 9/16

• Denver OWASP - Why you should hack your own APIs - 9/17

• ISACA Denver - Full Day! September Chapter Meeting - 9/18

• ISSA Pikes Peak - Chapter Meeting - 9/24

• Deciphering human behavior to Get Security Done (GSD): Understanding yourself and others to win at security - 9/25

• ISACA Denver - ISACA CommunITy Day 2025 - 10/4

• ISSA Denver - Denver ISSA Chapter Meeting at Secure World: How I Got Caught: A Deep Dive Into a 800K Fraud - 10/9

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