56 - 2/26 - Patrick Quinlan, CEO & co-Founder of Convercent

In this episode: Patrick Quinlan, CEO and co-founder of Convercent
is our guest this week. News from: CDOT, Google,
CryptoKitties, Riot Blockchain, Vista Equity Partners, BSides
Denver, Overwatch.id, ManagedMethods, Ping Identity, Secure64 and a
lot more! In Soviet Russia, election votes you Mueller's Russia
investigation touches Colorado. And so does SamSam ransomware
(sorry CDOT!). Google shows off their new digs in Boulder.
Cyprokitties play with cryptocurrency in Denver, and Riot
Blockchain looks a bit wobbly. And a lot more news this week.
Trivia: Congrats to Justin Brenneman who knew that the world's most
secure seed vault is in Colorado. Did you catch this week's trivia
question? Be the first to reply to info@colorado-security.com with
the right answer and get any $25 item from the Colorado = Security
store. Come join us on the new Colorado = Security Slack channel to
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questions or comments, or any organizations or events we should
highlight, contact Alex and Robb at info@colorado-security.com
Local security news: Join the Colorado = Security Slack channel
Colorado targeted by Russians indicted in Robert Mueller probe
indictment says SamSam ransomware variant hits Colorado
transportation agency and demands bitcoin Google shows off new
Boulder campus, funds K-12 computer science CryptoKitties paving
way to understanding blockchain, including at Denver Ethereum
hackathon Riot Blockchain's stock tumbles 30% after CNBC
investigation into former biotech firm that changed to trendy name
Billionaire Robert Smith left his hometown of Denver years ago, but
now he’s growing a tech empire here BSides CFP Open Overwatch.Id
$3.22 million Fundraising Operation Cyber Blanket ManagedMethods
Wins Gold 2018 Cybersecurity Excellence Award for Best Cloud
Security Product Ping Identity Takes the Gold Cybersecurity
Excellence Award for Second Consecutive Year Secure64 blog - How to
Stop Bots from Exploiting Social Media Sites Job Openings: Fast
Enterprises - Information Security Officer Gates - Sr Security
Engineer City and County of Denver - Information Security
Specialist Ping Identity - SRE - Security Operations CHI - Security
Engineer III - AV, Encryption CoreSite - Senior Information
Security Engineer Cigna - Cyber Threat Responder and Malware
Analysis Lead Black Knight - Threat Intelligence Analyst II First
Data - Senior Application Analyst Netizen - Cybersecurity Engineer
III Upcoming Events: This Week and Next: GDPR Meetup - An Overview
of GDPR - 2/27 SecureSet - Hacking 10 Workshop: AppSec - 2/27 ISSA
COS - Women in Security - 2/27 DenSec - South Meetup - 3/5 CTA -
Daybreak Education Series: The Business of IoT - 3/6 SnowFroc - 3/8
Other Notable Upcoming Events C-Level @ Mile High - 3/15 Rocky
Mountain Information Security Conference - 5/8-10 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