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David Lindner, Chief Information Security Officer

David is an experienced application security professional with over 20 years in cybersecurity. In addition to serving as the chief information security officer, David leads the Contrast Labs team that is focused on analyzing threat intelligence to help enterprise clients develop more proactive approaches to their application security programs. Throughout his career, David has worked within multiple disciplines in the security field—from application development, to network architecture design and support, to IT security and consulting, to security training, to application security. Over the past decade, David has specialized in all things related to mobile applications and securing them. He has worked with many clients across industry sectors, including financial, government, automobile, healthcare, and retail. David is an active participant in numerous bug bounty programs.

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    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 7/14

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 7/14

    Insight #1 " I see a lot of blame being placed on users (or the intern) when it comes to breaches and security issues...

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 6/24

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 6/24

    Insight #1 "I recently read an article where analysts are pushing organizations to decentralize security. Is it time to..

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 6/17

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 6/17

    Insight #1 " Incremental and measurable improvement over time is the key to a successful security program." Insight #2..

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 6/11

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 6/11

    Insight #1 " Another week, another OGNL injection vulnerability in a widely used on premises system. As consumers, we..

    Contrast Protect eliminates another zero-day headache

    Contrast Protect eliminates another zero-day headache

    On June 2nd, Atlassian released a security advisory about another remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2022-26134)..

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 6/3

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 6/3

    Insight #1 " The most recent malicious takeover of the ctx and phpass packages unearthed yet another gap in supply..

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 5/27

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 5/27

    Insight #1 "A recent survey shows developers are struggling to write secure code and often times publish code with..

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 5/20

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 5/20

    Insight #1 "The Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS) is yet another data point I urge you to add to your risk..

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 5/13

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 5/13

    Insight #1 "I recently attended a conference and overheard a conversation where someone said, “Security by obscurity is..