50 - 1/15 - Chris Calvert, Co-Founder & VP Product Respond Software

In this episode: Chris Calvert, Co-Founder & VP Product Respond
Software is our guest this week. News from: Left Hand
Robotics, Rachio, Gates, Red Robin, Optiv, Convercent, Ping
Identity, LogRhythm, Intelisecure and a lot more! I will never
shovel snow again So much news this week I don't know where to
start. A robot that will clear my snow? Yes please. Colorado
received a lot of venture funding in 2017 (I've got numbers to
prove it). Speaking of funding... a local smart sprinkler company
soaked up (get it? 'soaked up') 10m in funding. Gates announced an
IPO, while Red Robin is laying off folks from corporate and
restaurants. Colorado gets involved with GirlsGoCyberStart, Optiv
hires a new CTO, Convercent's CEO wrote for Forbes.com, Ping
security team talks about how to do MFA the right way, James from
LogRhythm talks about CISO pain-points, and a couple new CISOs
named in town. Come join us on the new Colorado = Security Slack
channel to meet old and new friends. Did you catch our 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. 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 Local security news: Join the Colorado =
Security Slack channel Colorado VC investment was highest in 16
years in 2017 Left Hand Robotics' snow clearing robot Smart-home
tech startup raises a new VC round Denver-based Gates files for IPO
Red Robin corporate and restaurant layoffs Colorado to partner in
GirlsGoCyberStart, an innovative cybersecurity program for high
school girls Optiv Security names Stu Solomon chief technology and
strategy officer Disrupting the Employee Experience - by
Patrick Quinlan PingID Security Hardening: Your Guide to Achieving
Five-Star MFA Security 7 Common CISO Pain Points and How to
Overcome Them Mischa Danaceau is the new CISO at InteliSecure Job
Openings: TeleTech - Director, Information Security Catholic Health
Initiatives - Manager, IT Security Risk Kivu Consulting - IT
Manager Comcast - Security Operations Center Lead Ping Identity -
Site Reliability Engineering, Security Operations DCP Midstream -
IT Security Analyst V Colorado State University (Denver) - Senior
Cyber Security Engineer Optiv - Consultant - Attack &
Penetration Arrow Electronics - IT Risk Intern Vail Resorts -
Information Security, Compliance, and Risk Internship Upcoming
Events: This Week and Next: CSA - January Meeting - 1/16 ISSA COS -
January meetings - 1/16-17 DenSec - North Meeting - 1/18 Optiv -
2018 Solution and Program Insight Focus Group: Application Security
(AppSec) - 1/18 ISACA - General Data Protection Regulation - 1/18
SecureSet - Cybersecurity Expert Series - 1/18 Red Canary - Micro
brew tour - 1/26 SecureSet - Capture the flag - 1/26 Other Notable
Upcoming Events: CTA - Day at the Capital - 2/21 SnowFROC - 3/8
C-Level @ Mile High - 3/15 Rocky Mountain Information Security
Confernce - 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