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?