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.

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This week’s news:

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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 [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