Summary: 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? Support us on Patreon! Fun swag available - all proceeds will directly support the Colorado = Security infrastructure. Come join us on the new Colorado = Security Slack channel to meet old and new friends. Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates - https://www.colorado-security.com/. If you have any questions or comments, or any organizations or events we should highlight, contact Alex and Robb at info@colorado-security.com 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
