Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 06/06/25

Insight No. 1 — Fixing threat actor names

Microsoft and CrowdStrike announced that they’ll work together on the headache of multiple  names for the same threat actors. But what matters most is who did it (if we know), what they accessed and what’s being done about it. That’s what customers, media and leadership want to hear. What if, in the heat of a live incident response, the only thing slowing you down was trying to decipher whether “Storm-0530” was a new group or just another name for something you already knew? We spend valuable cycles on threat actor branding, an exercise largely irrelevant to immediate crisis management. The focus should always be on actionable intelligence: understanding the breach, assessing the damage and rapidly restoring operations.

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from AppSec Observer authored by David Lindner, Director, Application Security. Read the original post at: https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers/cybersecurity-insights-with-contrast-ciso-david-lindner-06/06/25