This episode:

Al Barton, president of the Colorado Cloud Security Alliance, is our feature guest this week. News from: Xero, Apple, Secure64, Apex Awards, Optiv, LogRhythm and a lot more!

Show Notes:

https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/10/12/37-1016-al-barton

No, women are NOT well represented in leadership

Did you catch our trivia question? Be the first to reply to [email protected] with the right answer and get any $25 item from the Colorado = Security store.

Survey shows that 63% of men are bad at math... at least when it comes to evaluating women in the executive suite. Ex-CSA & NSA head Hayden tells us not to get our hopes up for the government to help out. Xero, Apple, Trimble all invest in Denver growth. Secure64 founder tells us that little DNS issues can cause big headaches. Forrester has a crush on Optiv. LogRhythm makes a splash. And a couple of security leaders land in new companies.

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Feature interview:

Al Barton, president of Colorado's Cloud Security Alliance sat with Robb to talk about the CSA. Al tells a bit about his background, then dives into what the CSA does, who should attend and what the future looks like for the group. Al also gives some advice on doing your own cloud security.

Local security news:

Colorado = Security store! Buy things now

A surprising number of men think women are well represented when just 1 in 10 executives is female

Ex-CIA, NSA chief Hayden to business: 'The cavalry ain’t coming' on cyber-attacks

Xero claims top floor of new Circa Building on Platte Street

Apple hiring software engineers to work in Denver

GPS-tech company Trimble doubles down on metro Denver, plans big hiring

How to avoid the network outage that could cost you the C-suite

Optiv Named a Strong Performer in Two 2017 Forrester Evaluations

LogRhythm Unveils Self-Evolving Cloud-Based Analytics to Enhance its Threat Lifecycle Management Platform

Merlin Namuth left Red Robin to join ReedGroup as Business Information Security Officer (BISO)

Job Openings:

Healthgrades - CISO

Children’s Hospital - Director Information Security

Gates - Security Architect

Vail Resorts - Network Security Engineer

DaVita - IT Security Risk Analyst

CHAN HEALTHCARE - Careers -IT Audit Manager

Western Union - Sr Info Security Analyst

ManTech - Software Vulnerability Researcher

Ball Aerospace - Security Awareness Training & Education (SATE) Coordinator

Alchemy Security - Systems Engineer

Upcoming Events:

This Week and Next:

CSA - October Chapter Meeting - 10/17

Become a Threat Hunter - 10/17

ISSA COS - October Chapter Meetings - 10/18-19

ISSA Denver - Government Special Interest Group - 10/19

SecureSet - Cybersecurity Expert Series: Chris Roberts, Acalvio - 10/19

DenSec - Meetup North - 10/19

SecureSet - Hacking 101 Workshop: NetSec - 10/25

CTA - Talent Series: Protecting Your Company's Trade Secrets and Other Confidential Information - 10/25

ISSA Denver - Oil & Gas Special Interest Group - 10/26

InfraGard - Business Email Compromise (BEC) Workshop - 10/27

SecureSet - Capture the flag - 10/27

Other Notable Upcoming Events:

SecureWorld Denver - 11/1-2

NCC - Governor's Cyber Symposium - 11/1-3

CTA - APEX Awards - 11/8

2017 CSA-CO Fall Summit - 11/9

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 [email protected]. 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