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Contrast’s application security blog provides the latest trends and tips in DevSecOps through instrumentation and security observability.
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 4/19/24

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 4/19/24

Insight #1 One of the most significant errors an organization can make is assuming they are not a target. This belief is especially prevalent among small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and it ...
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 4/12/24

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 4/12/24

Insight #1 I was at the Kernelcon conference last week and heard that Gen AI is going to wreck development because there will be more vulnerabilities than ever. In the same breath, ...
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 4/5/24

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 4/5/24

Insight #1 A recent report found that security and privacy concerns are holding back the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in organizations. That’s absolutely true, but it’s not the main cause. Rather, ...
Getting rid of a 20+ year old known vulnerability: It’s like a PSA for Runtime Security

Getting rid of a 20+ year old known vulnerability: It’s like a PSA for Runtime Security

On Wednesday, March 27, CISA and the FBI issued a cry for help: We need to stamp out SQL injection vulnerabilities, and we need to do it yesterday, they said in a ...
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 3/29/24

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 3/29/24

Insight #1 According to Google, zero days being exploited in the wild jumped 50% last year. I just don't understand your thought process if you are not looking at control layers like ...
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 3/22/24

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 3/22/24

Insight #1 Things are well and good in the hacker community, as they are now attacking critical water systems. But honestly, one of the attacks was due to a default admin password ...
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 3/15/24

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 3/15/24

Insight #1 If you want insight into how difficult security is, look at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The agency was recently breached through a Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE) ...
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 3/8/24

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 3/8/24

Insight #1 If you’re not performing routine tabletop exercises to ensure that your organization is protected from cybersecurity vulnerabilities, you should be. It's one thing to have detailed processes for executing during ...
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 3/1/24

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 ...