Our featured guest this month is Chazz Gifford, VP Information Security @ Intrado, interviewed by Frank Victory. News from Palantir, Lumen, the State of Colorado, Red Canary, Optiv, and a lot more!

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This week’s news:

Checkr, Chevron decisions push downtown vacancy up again in third quarter

Palantir enters $200M partnership with telco Lumen to offer enterprise AI services

Colorado plans to fully digitize paper and analog land records, some dating back to the 1860s, by next year

Police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of package theft. She had her own evidence

Governor Polis Proclaims October 2025 as Cybersecurity Awareness Month “Stay Safe Online”

AWS down: How a single network outage rippled through businesses, institutions and the economy

Colorado attorney general sues Trump administration over Space Command HQ relocation to Alabama

Privacy Protections for Children's Online Data

Navigating the Vast AI Security Tools Landscape

Commanding attention: How adversaries are abusing AI CLI tools

Upcoming Events:

Check out the full calendar

Denver ISSA - AI: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly - 11/12

ASIS - That's a Wrap End of the Year Happy Hour Party - 11/12

ISC2 Pikes Peak - Chapter Meeting - 11/19

ISACA Denver - November Chapter Workshop with ISC2 - 11/20

ISC2 Pikes Peak - Chapter Meeting - 12/5

ISACA Denver - HOLIDAY PARRRTAAAAYYY - 12/11

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