36 - 10/9/17 - Dave Dufour, VP of Engineering and Cybersecurity at Webroot

In this episode: Dave Dufour, VP of Engineering and Cybersecurity at Webroot, is our feature guest this week. News from: AOL, Amazon, ChannelAdvisor, EKS&H, Secure64, Convercent, Ping Identity and a lot more! Full notes here: https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/10/6/36-109-dave-dufour Yes Amazon, we REALLY want HQ2 Did you catch our trivia question? Be the first to reply with the right answer and get any <$25 item from the Colorado = Security store. AOL Instant Messaging came out at the perfect time to be a huge part of my college and young adult life. If I had used it in the last decade I would definitely miss it leaving us. Also, aren't you supposed to play a LITTLE hard to get? Colorado legislators are not holding back telling Bezos that they want HQ2. ChannelAdvisor didn't get the red carpet, but they're coming to town anyway. Colorado accountants are building bots and collecting big data. Colorado makes the map of well funded security company hubs. Englewood's computers get pwned. One CEO is out and a new one is in at Secure64. Convercent has their big conference, and things are good for ethics companies in 2017. And Ping Identity speaks up about what makes for an effective CISO (hint- it's not about the undergraduate degree). Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates - https://www.colorado-security.com/. This week's episode is available on Soundcloud, iTunes and the Google Play store. Reach out with any questions or comments to [email protected] Feature interview: Dave Dufour, VP of Engineering and Cybersecurity at Webroot sat with Robb. They talked about IOT, Webroot's history and future, how CISOs should build an effective program, and the Colorado security community.  Local security news: Colorado = Security store! Buy things now End of an Era: AIM is Shutting Down This Year All Colorado Congress members to Jeff Bezos: Build Amazon HQ2 here E-commerce software company, ChannelAdvisor, expands to Denver Colorado accountants are building bots, collecting big data Country’s Most Well-Funded Cybersecurity Startups on One Map Englewood computer system under ransomware attack Industry Veteran Thad Dupper Appointed CEO of Secure64 Entrepreneurs need to think about ethics, too, experts say at Denver forum Ping Blog: CISO: The Definition of Security Leadership Job Openings: Douglas County - Sr Cyber Security Analyst First Information Technology Consulting - Process Control Domain (PCN) Administrator Pearson - Cloud Security Engineer, Risk & Compliance General Dynamics - Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst Western Union - Information Security Analyst (IT Audit) Cognizant - Cyber Security, Incident Response & Investigations Swimlane - Security Solutions Engineer PwC - Cybersecurity Manager Upcoming Events: This Week and Next: October OWASP Denver joint meeting w/ SANS DevOps Summit - 10/10 ISSA October Chapter Meetings - 10/10-11 ISACA - October meeting - 10/12 CSA - October Chapter Meeting - 10/17 Become a Threat Hunter - 10/17 ISSA COS - October Chapter Meetings - 10/18-19 ISSA Denver - Government Special Interest Group - 10/19 SecureSet - Cybersecurity Expert Series: Chris Roberts, Acalvio - 10/19 DenSec - Meetup North - 10/19 Other Notable Upcoming Events: SecureWorld Denver - 11/1-2 NCC - Governor's Cyber Symposium - 11/1-3 CTA - APEX Awards - 11/8 2017 CSA-CO Fall Summit - 11/9 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 [email protected] * Thanks to CJ Adams for our intro and exit! If you need any voiceover work, you can contact him here at [email protected]. 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