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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 10/28

By David Lindner, Chief Information Security Officer

October 28, 2022

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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 10/28

Insight #1

"CVSS score does not directly relate to the risk to your organization. Please for everyone’s sake, including your developers, produce a better algorithm for managing risk in your organization. Look at things like exploitability (EPSS), exploit path, vulnerable class usage, etc."
 

Insight #2

"The security industry is known to overreact to new CVEs, especially when they are rate critical. It’s a lot easier to tweet or blog about something than it is to drop everything you are working on to try to figure out how to update the library that is vulnerable to said CVE. How do we do that you ask? See my first insight from this week, find a better algorithm that fits your organization that mirrors your risk profile and tolerance."
 

Insight #3

"If you are reporting vulnerabilities as “actively exploited” or “in the wild” please define what that means to the broader community. Those terms are created to scare people into compliance but have no real backing or understanding of anything about what it means. Transparency is key, this is not transparency."
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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.

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