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CISO Thoughts with David Lindner - April 8

By David Lindner, Chief Information Security Officer

April 8, 2022

Insight #1

Every single CISO/CIO should realize their organization is building and using software. That being said, securing your software factory should be in your top 3 priorities this year and every year. The changing developer landscape and pace of development are outpacing security teams' ability to keep up and it is time to prioritize delivering secure code.
 

Insight #2

As we slowly return to working some in the office, even in a hybrid sense, we should re-evaluate our physical security controls which most likely took a pause in the past 2 years. What can you enhance, change, or add to your physical security controls as your teams start to use the physical offices again?
 

Insight #3

It is extremely critical to establish your “baseline” when using the cloud. Knowing what your environment looks like and knowing when sometimes changes or looks different will be a key to increasing our cloud security posture. Once you have a baseline, you can deploy tooling, monitoring, and other processes to detect, prevent, and alert on anomalies based on your internal policies and procedures, but none of this will work without a proper baseline.

 
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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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