In this episode: Sue Lapierre, CISO for Prologis, is our guest this week. News from: Qdoba, Marketo, Convercent, OverWatchID, Swimlane, NCC, DirectDefense and a lot more! Meltdown and Spectre are kind of a big deal Not exactly the quietest start to a year so far, huh? This week brought us one of the biggest vulnerability disclosures we've seen in quite a while. Plus some other news like... someone paid how much for a burrito? Marketo's got a big presence in Denver. Convercent, OverWatchID and Swimlane all raise money. NCC has new leadership and a new plan. And DirectDefense provides some insight on the processor mess. Come join us on the new Colorado = Security Slack channel to meet old and new friends. Did you catch our trivia question? Be the first to reply to info@colorado-security.com with the right answer and get any $25 item from the Colorado = Security store. 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 info@colorado-security.com Local security news: Join the Colorado = Security Slack channel Meltdown & Spectre DirectDefense Blog: Processor Bugs Ring in the New Year Denver-born Qdoba to be sold for $305 million Silicon Valley's Marketo plants office in Denver Optiv Pulls IPO Paperwork Convercent raises $25M to keep companies out of ethical quandaries OverWatchID’s Lands $2M Funding Round Swimlane $1.35M funding NCC faces new year with a new plan Job Openings: Opus Bank -Sr Information Security Program Manager Schwab - Director Job in Risk Analytics Pearson - Information Security Risk Manager Wells Fargo - IT Senior Lead Auditor - Infrastructure Audit Team Payments Processing Co - Senior Security Engineer SecureSet - Cyber Threat Intelligence Instructor IQNavigator - Information Security Analyst 1 Xcel Energy - Senior Security Governance & Controls Analyst Ping Identity - Security Intern Hain Celestial - Security and Compliance Director BP - Security Architect - CLOSED LogRhythm - Director, Product Marketing Upcoming Events: This Week and Next: ISSA Denver - January Chapter Meetings - 1/9-10 CyberGRX - Open House for new office - 1/10 CSA - January Meeting - 1/16 ISSA COS - January meetings - 1/16-17 DenSec - North Meeting - 1/18 Optiv - 2018 Solution and Program Insight Focus Group: Application Security (AppSec) - 1/18 ISACA - General Data Protection Regulation - 1/18 SecureSet - Cybersecurity Expert Series - 1/18 Other Notable Upcoming Events: CTA - Day at the Capital - 2/21 SnowFROC - 3/8 C-Level @ Mile High - 3/15 Rocky Mountain Information Security Confernce - 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 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