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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 8/5

By David Lindner, Chief Information Security Officer

August 5, 2022

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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 8/5

Insight #1

"Are you paying if you get hit with ransomware? I provided my thoughts here. The reality shows that most companies hit with ransomware who pay the ransom, get hit a subsequent time. Are you paying?"
 

Insight #2

"If you are a SaaS provider, one of the best things you can do for your customer is to expose the audit log to them. Customers can and should then integrate it into their log aggregation or SIEM systems. As the SaaS provider, there is no way for you to understand inappropriate access or any account takeovers that may occur for that customer. Also, please do not charge extra for this, make it standard and use it as a strong selling point."
 

Insight #3

"For all the bug bounty researchers out there. Standing up thousands of typo-squatted code repositories, and effectively trying to steal “only environment variables” is well beyond any scope of a bug bounty program."
 
 
 
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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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