24 - 7/17/17 - Genevieve Southwick (Bana Sidhe)

In this episode: Feature interview with Genevieve Southwick - aka
Bana Sidhe (pronounced Banshee) - Denver's wrangler of security
conferences. Also news from Palo Alto Networks, Secure64, Swimlane
and Automox. Full show notes:
https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/7/15/24-717-show-notes
Girl Scouts - selling cookies, camping and... hacking computers?
The weather isn't the only thing heating up in Colorado. Tons of
new meetings posted this week, and a lot of great news. Funding for
a Denver home automation company, a new CISO of the year award is
posted, new cybersecurity rules for investment advisors and
broker-dealers in Colorado, a new board member for Secure64,
Swimlane win's an award, and a local company explains the CVE
system. And my favorite... Palo Alto networks is working with the
Girl Scouts to create cybersecurity badges. What a great world we
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info@colorado-security.com Feature interview: Genevieve Southwick
is one of the most colorful and fun characters in the Colorado
security community. Known online as Bana Sidhe (pronounced
Banshee), Gen has been responsible for helping organize Denver
BSides, Las Vegas BSides, and a number of other security
conferences over the last decade. In this conversation we learn how
Gen's career at the Renaissance Faire turned into a security
career. BSides - Proving Grounds. Denver City Sec.  Local
security news: Why go into the office? Denver area embraces
telecommuting Josh.ai - Denver home automation startup raises 8m
Apex Awards - CISO of the year award is up now! Colorado
Division of Securities Adopts Final Cybersecurity Rule Palo Alto
and Girl Scout team up on security badges Cyber Security Expert Dan
Massey Joins the Secure64 Executive Team Swimlane named "breakout
vendor" by Forrester Automox Blog - CVE System Explained Job
Openings: Gates - Director of Information Risk & Security
Connect for Health Colorado - Security Analyst ProtectWise -
Malware Analyst, Threat  Researcher Coalfire - Sr Security
Consultant, Penetration Tester Red Canary - Security Operations
Center Analyst Webroot - Advanced Malware Threat Research Engineer
Ping Identity - GRC Analyst Upcoming Events: This Week and Next:
OWASP - July meeting - 7/19 NCC - Cyber Center Charrette 2017 -
7/19-21 DenverSec - Meetup - 7/20 ISC2 Denver - CISSP - ISSEP
Presentation - 7/20 ISSA COS - Mini Seminar - 7/22 NCC - Air Force
Association's CyberPatriot CyberCamp - 7/24-28 SecureSet - Capture
the flag - 7/28 ISSA COS - CISSP Exam Prep - 7/29 Other Notable
Upcoming Events: 7th Annual Cyber Security Training &
Technology Forum - 8/30-31 NCC - Governor's Cyber Symposium -
11/1-3 CTA - APEX Awards - 11/8 View our events page for a full
list of upcoming events If you have any questions or comments,
or any organizations or events we should highlight, contact Alex
and Robb at info@colorado-security.com * 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