74 - 7/9 - Karen Worstell, Founder of W Risk Group

In this episode: Karen Worstell, former CISO for Microsoft, Russell
Investments, AT&T, and now Managing Principal and Founder at W
Risk Group, is our feature interview this week. News from:
Bird, Lime, Sphero, Amazon, National Cybersecurity Center, Google,
Ping Identity, SecureSet, Intelisecure and a lot more! I hope I
look this good when I turn 242 years old Happy birthday America! I
hope you like fireworks. Denver makes a scooter program. Tariffs
might hit Colorado. Will HQ2 come to Denver? We are the Silicon
Valley for Blockchain. Google has news. Ping makes a big
acquisition. So does SecureSet. It's not to late to vote for the
CISO of the year! Visit Karen's website at: karenworstell.com
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info@colorado-security.com Local security news: Join the Colorado =
Security Slack channel Denver unveils pilot program for electric
scooters Denver leads U.S. in small-business job growth in June
2018, No. 3 for wage growth per Paychex report Why this Denver tech
firm is concerned about tariffs and trade wars Denver ranks No. 4
for Amazon HQ2 in GeekWire reader survey Colorado will be 'Silicon
Valley for blockchain technology,' National Cybersecurity Center
CEO says Google announces $2.8M in grants, office space to Boulder
tech education Ping Identity acquires stealthy API security startup
Elastic Beam SecureSet Acquires HackEd to Bring Immersive
Cybersecurity Education to Washington D.C. Metro Region
Intelisecure - The Economics of Data and Information CISO of the
year voting Job Openings: Ping Identity - Site Reliability Engineer
- Security Operations Ping Identity - Director of IT Kaiser
Permanente - Executive Director, Cyber Risk Defense Center &
Deputy CISO PDC Energy - Director, Information Security Jacobs
Entertainment - Corporate IT Security Manager GB Protect - Senior
Information Security Analyst Department of Homeland Security - IT
Specialist (INFOSEC) Centura Health - Security Analyst Comcast -
Security Engineer, Incident Response Gaming Labs - Security
Specialist CU Boulder - Incident Response Analyst Upcoming Events:
This Week and Next: ISSA Denver July Meetings - 7/10-11 CTA - CTA
101 - 7/11 SecureSet - Capture the Flag - 7/13 CSA - July Meeting -
7/17 ISSA COS - July Meetings - 7/17-18 DenSec - Meetup - 7/18
SecureSet - Career Convos: Alison Lawrence Daley - 7/19 ISC2 – Data
Protection: Industry Practices to Identify and Protect Sensitive
Information - 7/19 ISSA COS - Mini Seminar - 7/21 Other Notable
Upcoming Events Colorado Springs - Cyber Security Training &
Technology Forum (CSTTF) - 8/22 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