128 - 8/12 - Eric Alexander, Sr Lead DevSecOps Engineer at The Trade Desk

Eric Alexander, Senior Lead DevSecOps Engineer at The Trade Desk is
our feature interview this week. News from Ibotta, Angi
Homeservices, TTEC, Western Union, Ping Identity, ManagedMethods,
Optiv, Webroot, DarkOwl and a lot more! A Unicorn spotting in
Denver Ibotta is Colorado’s latest unicorn. Angi Homeservices talks
about a spinoff. TTEC and Western Union both lay off employees.
Ping Identity releases a private cloud solution. ManagedMethods
grows a lot. Optiv has a new CTO. Webroot talks about making Threat
Intelligence smarter. DarkOwl talks 8chan. The BuffOvrFlows win
first place at the Wicked6 cyber games. Support us on Patreon! Fun
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- 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 This
week’s news: Join the Colorado = Security Slack channel Ibotta is
Colorado's newest $1 billion unicorn Angi Homeservices CEO talks
possible spinoff from parent company TTEC Services to lay off more
than 170 workers Western Union closes Florida office, lays off 9
vice presidents as staff cuts begin Ping Identity launches private
cloud identity solution ManagedMethods Increases Revenue by 141
Percent in the First Half of 2019 Optiv Security Appoints Todd
Weber Chief Technology Officer for the Americas Context Matters:
Turning Data into Threat Intelligence | Webroot 8chan Activates
“Emergency Bunker” on Dark Web — DarkOwl Job Openings: Ping
Identity - Manager of Product Security Ping Identity - GRC Analyst
MAXAR - VP, Enterprise Security, TS/SCI Visa - Chief cybersecurity
Engineer Bank of America - Cybersecurity Incident Manager Ball Corp
- Cyber Security Operations Lead Terumo BCT - Software Security
Architect Office of the Attorney General - Cyber Security Analyst
IHS Markit - Cyber Security Specialist Jeppesen - Security
Specialist Coalfire - VP, Cybersecurity Services Innovation
Protiviti - Denver IT Audit Associate Director Upcoming Events:
This Week and Next: Splunk Meetup - Brewery Tour and Hands on
Workshop: Making your own Splunk visualization app! - 8/13 ISSA
Denver - August Chapter Meetings - 8/13-14 SecureSet - Hacking 101:
Intro to Data Visualization - 8/15 CISSP Seminar Series Domain 1
(Security & Risk Management) - 8/17 C.Springs ISSA - August
Meetings - 8/20-21 CTA - DevOps at Scale - 8/21 IT Security
Professionals Happy Hour hosted by Intelisecure - 8/22 CTA - Women
in Government with CWCC Young Professionals Board and Public
Affairs Committee - 8/22 C.Springs - Air Force CyberWorx Small
Business Innovation Research Seminar - 8/22 SecureSet - Beginner’s
Intro to Capture The Flag - 8/23 CISSP Seminar Series Domain 3
(Security Engineering) - 8/24 Colorado Springs ISSA - Mini Seminar
- 8/24 Other Notable Upcoming Events SecureWorld 2019 - 10/29-30
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