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 [email protected] 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 meet old and new friends. 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 [email protected] 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 [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