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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 | 5/24/24

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 5/24/24

    Insight #1 Tool consolidation continues, with Palo Alto’s plans to absorb IBM's QRadar software. This movement will..

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 5/17/24

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 5/17/24

    Insight #1 Would you rather a. keep finding more vulnerabilities and building that security backlog until it leads your..

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 5/10/24

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 5/10/24

    Insight #1 The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA’s) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) list..

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 5/3/24

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 5/3/24

    Insight #1 Here we go again: Verizon’s new Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is out, and once again,..

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 4/26/24

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 4/26/24

    Insight #1 AI is clearly becoming a problem, with headlines capturing incidents such as a deepfake audio impersonating..

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 4/19/24

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 4/19/24

    Insight #1 One of the most significant errors an organization can make is assuming they are not a target. This belief..

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 4/12/24

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 4/12/24

    Insight #1 I was at the Kernelcon conference last week and heard that Gen AI is going to wreck development because..

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 4/5/24

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 4/5/24

    Insight #1 A recent report found that security and privacy concerns are holding back the use of artificial intelligence..

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 3/29/24

    Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 3/29/24

    Insight #1 According to Google, zero days being exploited in the wild jumped 50% last year. I just don't understand..