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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 | 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..

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast Security CISO David Lindner | 5/6

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast Security CISO David Lindner | 5/6

    Insight #1 "If your website authentication form prevents users from pasting in their password, or from using their..

    CISO Thoughts with David Lindner - April 29

    CISO Thoughts with David Lindner - April 29

    Insight #1 "How do you measure risk between vulnerabilities in custom code vs vulnerabilities in third-party code? To..

    CISO Thoughts with David Lindner - April 22

    CISO Thoughts with David Lindner - April 22

    Insight #1 " Another critical Java zero-day was revealed in the last week. Turns out, the issue was originally reported..

    CISO Thoughts with David Lindner - April 15

    CISO Thoughts with David Lindner - April 15

    Insight #1 "Again we had an instance where a CVE was not appropriately fixed and a year later a new CVE was released..

    CISO Thoughts with David Lindner - April 8

    CISO Thoughts with David Lindner - April 8

    Insight #1 Every single CISO/CIO should realize their organization is building and using software. That being said,..