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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 6/3

By David Lindner, Chief Information Security Officer

June 3, 2022

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Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 6/3

Insight #1

"The most recent malicious takeover of the ctx and phpass packages unearthed yet another gap in supply chain security. I say anything not maintained or changed within the last year should be scrutinized by security teams, and anything beyond 2 years should not be allowed to be used in production environments."
 

Insight #2

"How can customers or third parties quickly get ahold of your security or incident response teams? We all need to make sure we make it easy to find a security contact, especially in cases of vulnerabilities, attacks, or breaches. We use security@contrastsecurity.com, how about you?"
 

Insight #3

"Cybersecurity is a very big category. One key component to being successful in a cybersecurity role is to find the parts that you are passionate about it and create a job that focuses on that. The reality is most security teams are understaffed and senior leaders have a plethora of priorities not being addressed. You control your professional direction and can greatly influence priority and at the same time focus on the things you love."
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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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