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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 3/1/24

By David Lindner, Chief Information Security Officer

March 1, 2024

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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 3/1/24

Insight #1

As was made clear by the recent blowup over Google’s Gemini image creation tool last week (it generated “embarrassing and offensive results,” as one publication put it), AI is proving more and more to be unpredictable and biased. How does the industry solve these issues? Do we need to?

Insight #2

Some are floating the notion of “the death of the CIO,” given how cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS) “bring IT and security back together.” It’s true: IT should be reporting to a security leader. The amount of software being used and managed by IT teams – and all the security aspects entailed by that use – make it a natural fit.

Insight #3

Malicious actors will continue to search for new ways to infiltrate users and companies. Look at the recent attack against users of Calendly, which leveraged the functionality of creating calendar entries to get users to click on malicious links. Should Calendly be responsible for doing anything here? Or is it users’ responsibility to refrain from clicking the links?
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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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