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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 09/27/24

    
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 09/27/24

Insight #1: Don't just focus on the catastrophe du jour

A CISO must have both long-term and short-term plans to improve security posture. These plans must include people, process and technology. You will not solve a problem with only one.

 

Insight #2: Every single thing can't be critical

Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize. We need to be prioritization experts as security leaders or we will quickly become overwhelmed with the thrash and interrupt work as everyone screams "this is critical." If everything is critical, nothing is critical, and burnout becomes a real problem.

 

Insight #3: Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Turn on MFA!

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, so it's as good a time as any to remind you to set up multifactor authentication (MFA) on all of your accounts!

David Lindner, Chief Information Security Officer

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.