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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 10/20

By David Lindner, Chief Information Security Officer

October 20, 2023

Insight #1

It’s time to stop measuring your security organization success by the number of vulnerabilities you find. Security is a journey not a destination. Measure how quickly you are mitigating the vulnerabilities, mean time to remediate (MTTR), and measure how many of those vulnerabilities escape your processes, vulnerability escape rate (VER).

Insight #2

The “shift left” movement is over. Put your security processes and tools where they best fit your organization and “shift smart” instead.

Insight #3

What have you improved this month during Cybersecurity Awareness Month? Did you enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) on something new? Enable your users to use a password manager? Deploy some auto-update mechanisms? What is stopping you?
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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