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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 7/21

By David Lindner, Chief Information Security Officer

July 21, 2023

Insight #1

WormGPT is a thing. The tool — being sold on hacker forums and considered “ChatGPT’s evil cousin” — shows that cybercriminals are taking advantage of Large Language Models (LLMs) to produce detection-resilient cyberattacks and phishes. It’s uber important that your controls and detections adapt to the changing landscape.

Insight #2

The new Cyber Trust Mark voluntary Internet of Things (IoT) label is very exciting. It’s long overdue to provide a labeling scheme for software.

Insight #3

It remains to be seen, but the general consensus is that deep fakes and false data generated by LLMs will significantly affect the next presidential election.
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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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