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 ...
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 ...
Elevate Node.js Security with v5 Node Agent | Contrast Security

Elevate Node.js Security with v5 Node Agent | Contrast Security

Node.js is an incredibly popular programming environment, highly regarded for its efficiency and scalability. It powers a wide range of applications, from web applications to real-time chat applications, application programming interfaces (APIs) ...
Zero-day Confluence RCE Vulnerability Blocked by Contrast Runtime Security | CVE-2023-22527 | Contrast Security

Zero-day Confluence RCE Vulnerability Blocked by Contrast Runtime Security | CVE-2023-22527 | Contrast Security

If your organization is running an older version of Atlassian Confluence Server that’s affected by CVE-2023-22527 — the critical remote-code execution (RCE) zero day discovered recently — you either ...
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 1/12/24

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 1/12/24

Insight #1 Have you enabled two-factor (2FA) on your X account? The Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) hadn't, but I bet they have now that the Commission’s account has been hacked. Consider ...
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 1/5/24

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 1/5/24

Insight #1 In light of 23andMe blaming victims for their data getting breached, I have two things to ask: Users, please stop reusing passwords. Providers, please start requiring multifactor authentication (MFA) ...
Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 12/15/23

Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 12/15/23

Insight #1 2023 saw the "transparency" movement continue for software organizations. In 2024, this will continue, and we as software organizations should fully embrace it and start following frameworks like the Minimum ...
Replace broken AppSec tools with an Application Security technology that actually works: Runtime Security

Replace broken AppSec tools with an Application Security technology that actually works: Runtime Security

Tell us straight, Santa: Where did these old-school Application Security (AppSec) tools come from? Did you get the Security Specialist Elves to cobble them together from toadstool scrapings and cobwebs?  ...
Contrast Security recognized in the 2023 Gartner® AppSec Testing Voice of the Customer report

Contrast Security recognized in the 2023 Gartner® AppSec Testing Voice of the Customer report

The 2023 Gartner Peer Insights™ “Voice of the Customer”: Application Security Testing report has recognized Contrast Security as garnering approval from most customers, with 94% of Contrast customers being willing to recommend ...
Don't Waste Budget on Application Security (AppSec) Testing Tools like DAST, SAST, and SCA that Aren't Working | Contrast Security

Don’t Waste Budget on Application Security (AppSec) Testing Tools like DAST, SAST, and SCA that Aren’t Working | Contrast Security

From the “How does this make sense?” department comes this finding: The more they get breached, the more likely it is that firms plan to throw money at Application Security (AppSec). … ...