Randall Frietzsche, CISO at Denver Health is our feature interview this week. News from the Brown Palace, Ibotta, Pax8, Red Canary, Optiv, zvelo and a lot more.

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This week’s news:

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Two new pizza shops opening in Denver, the “No. 1 city for pizza”

The Brown Palace closing its marquee restaurant, Palace Arms, “until further notice”

Colorado’s startup community rallies behind Ibotta as Denver’s popular consumer app has IPO

Downtown Vitality Index: How Downtown Denver’s comeback compares

Has Boulder lost its luster? For those in the local tech community, the answer is not so simple.

Fast-growing Denver tech company hires new CEO to replace founder

Coloradans scammed out of $187.6M in 2023, new FBI report says

Manage your SOC like a product

The Rising Role of the BISO

Escalating Deepfake Threats and Countermeasures

Job Openings:

Pax8 - Senior Cybersecurity Operations Engineer

Pax8 - IAM Engineer

Bank of America - Senior Information Security Officer

Klaviyo - Senior Manager, Security Risk & Reviews

Trimble - IT Risk & Control Manager

Amazon Games - Senior Security Risk Specialist, GME (Games, Media, & Entertainment) Security

Gogo Business Aviation - Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

Juniper Square - GRC Security Specialist

US Bank - IS Governance, Risk & Controls Specialist

NREL - Chief Cybersecurity Engineer

Synopsys - Sr. Staff Cyber Security Engineer

Upcoming Events:

This Week and Next:

ISC2 Denver - Navigating the Cyber Landscape in Operational Technology (OT): Challenges, Threats, and Solutions - 5/8

ISSA Denver - The Real World : Hunting Cloud Security Threats - 5/8 (DTC and Downtown)

Let's Talk Software Security - Security Champions: What Can Keep Them From Being Successful? - 5/14

Let's Talk Software Security - Security Champions: What Can Go Wrong? - 5/15

CSA Colorado - AWS hands-on Identity and Access Management Immersion workshop - 5/21

ISSA Denver - AI/ML Special Interest Group Inaugural Roundtable - 5/21

ISSA Denver - ISSA Denver Chapter and Gigamon Superfly Golf Event - 5/22

ISC2 Pikes Peak - May Meeting - 5/22

RMISC - 6/11-13

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