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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 6/17

    
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 6/17

Insight #1

"Incremental and measurable improvement over time is the key to a successful security program."
 

Insight #2

"If you sell a product or service, and in selling that product or service you are charging more for basics like API or audit log access, I urge you to rethink your strategy. Providing security visibility in your products will only strengthen your relationship with your customers and provide them with the tools they need to monitor usage and perform incident investigations."
 

Insight #3

"Smishing attempts are on the rise. I can without a doubt tell you this… at no moment in time will you ever get a legitimate text message from your CEO/CTO/CISO/CPO/name your favorite executive, from an unknown number, asking you to buy them some gift cards. Immediately report the number to 7726, block the number, and delete the message."
 
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.