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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 1/13

    
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 1/13

Insight #1

"SBOMS are coming to fruition. Two major components to work through are the creation of an SBOM by producers, and the consumption of SBOMS by consumers. The latter will be the most difficult, but I look forward to the future of transparency."
 

Insight #2

"NIST 800-63B was created and released in June of 2017. We are coming up on 6 years of them telling us that length trumps complexity for passwords and we should not be arbitrarily changing passwords unless suspected of compromise. When is the industry going to listen?"
 

Insight #3

"For organizations looking to add or modify their cyber security insurance policies, insurers are starting to require MFA for critical self-hosted applications. Start looking at these now, add to your procurement processes, and work with your vendors to make sure MFA is an option for their on-premise solutions."
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.