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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 2/16/24

By David Lindner, Chief Information Security Officer

February 15, 2024

Insight #1

How are you protecting your web and application programming interface (API) applications from attack? In 2023, Contrast Protect blocked 12 million legitimate attacks (including zero days such as the recent Confluence remote-code execution [RCE] vulnerability) out of 4 billion detected attack events. What's stopping you from increasing your security posture and implementing controls to prevent these attacks?

Insight #2

Microsoft and Open AI  are seeing an increase in hacking groups using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help generate and refine their cyberattacks. This is not a blip: These AI-enabled attacks will continue to increase and will become the norm. AI is too powerful for adversaries to not use it.

Insight #3

Security debt — (viz., more non remediated vulnerabilities) — continues to rise. This will become a growing problem as time goes on, as more and more software is created. Are you making changes to the way you handle your security debt? Simple things like revamping the risk-ranking process to be specific to your organization and consolidating on tools that will provide you with more accurate results will help.
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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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