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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 1/19/24

    
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 1/19/24

Insight #1

Hackers are not trying to infiltrate your systems 45 billion times per day, regardless of what’s purportedly happening at JPMorgan. They may be trying to find some holes in your systems, or holes in systems somewhere, but let's not publish crazy headlines and numbers just to get clicks.

Insight #2

Some say that 2024 is the year of the CISO, and I would agree. 2024 is the year the CISO finally moves into the executive layer.

Insight #3

Why are you still using the same password across multiple sites/applications? Is it too hard to remember more than one password? Is it too hard to use a password manager? Is it too hard to use passkeys? There are so many options to help you take advantage of them!

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.