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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 8/4

By David Lindner, Chief Information Security Officer

August 4, 2023

    
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 8/4

Insight #1

While it’s exciting to see the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requiring (PDF) incident disclosures for cybersecurity breaches within four days, it’s disappointing that they didn’t move forward with requiring cybersecurity expertise in the boardroom. 
 

Insight #2

Phishing continues to create a problem for organizations and will get even more difficult to detect with more use of artificial intelligence (AI) for maliciousness. 
 

Insight #3

The U.S. government released the National Cyber Workforce and Education Strategy aiming to equip all Americans with foundational cyberskills and to close the cybersecurity skills gap.
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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