Cybersecurity Insights with Contrast CISO David Lindner | 05/02/25

Insight No. 1 — Know which vulnerabilities are active in production
Consider this: your pre-production scans might flag hundreds of vulnerabilities, but which ones are actually being exploited in your live environment? The uncomfortable truth is that without visibility into your production runtime, you’re operating in the dark, potentially focusing resources on threats that pose minimal immediate risk while critical exposures remain unseen. The strategic imperative now is to implement robust controls within production to gain that crucial visibility, allowing for informed prioritization and a tangible reduction in your organization’s true security risk.

*** 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-05/02/25

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