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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 1/26/24

By David Lindner, Chief Information Security Officer

January 26, 2024

Insight #1

Spray and pray: That’s the modus operandi behind the latest successful attack against Microsoft, which resulted in compromise of the company’s email systems. The attackers reportedly got in through an old testing environment, which seemingly had no multi-factor authentication (MFA) stopping them. 

Lesson learned: Just because it’s not a production system doesn't mean it can't be used as an avenue to get into your production systems. Threat models? MFA? It all matters.

Insight #2

I really love the idea of a civilian cybersecurity reserve. As time goes on, it will be increasingly important to have technical backup for cyber warfare.

Insight #3

Application Security (AppSec) is a persona. Where does this persona best fit in your organization? Is it an AppSec team, QA, Dev, IT, Compliance, or somewhere else? One of the coolest parts about AppSec is it can fit where you need it to in your org.
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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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