By Grant McCracken Jan 10, 2021All You Need to Know About Bug Bounty Testing Environments If you’re looking to set up a bug bounty program, we've already covered step zero, setting your scope, and the importance of focus areas, as well as some considerations to make around exclusions on your program. For those of you… Read More
By Breonna Burrell Dec 17, 2020You’ve Got Mail! – Receiving Bugcrowd Private Program Invites Understanding and building trust with the researcher community is a fundamental part of the program invite process here at Bugcrowd. The more you share with us about yourself and your skills, the faster we can get you on the right… Read More
By Breonna Burrell Dec 15, 2020Put Another ‘X’ on the Calendar: Researcher Availability now live! Researchers are dynamic and ambitious, taking on new targets every day! In order to better recommend engagements for you, the platform needs to know your availability. This enables us to ensure you get the most out of your time and… Read More
By Bugcrowd Dec 15, 20202021 Cybersecurity Predictions from Casey Ellis Nobody could predict some of the wildcards that 2020 threw us (I'm looking at you, murder hornets). Even still, we're feeling hopeful that 2021 will bring better times, so we asked Bugcrowd's Founder, Chairman, and CTO, Casey Ellis, to share… Read More
By Casey Ellis Dec 14, 2020Priority One: Insights into Submission and Payment Trends 2020: Chaos is a Ladder As 2020 comes to a close, I’ve started to see summaries of the year pop up, covering lessons learned from the year nobody saw coming... As years go, 2020 was full of those! While I… Read More
By Bugcrowd Product Marketing Dec 3, 2020What’s a Vulnerability Disclosure Program? In the past year, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) have released guidance outlining the need for vulnerability disclosure programs (VDP). With support from major legislative bodies like the National Institute of Standards and Technology,… Read More
By Bugcrowd Dec 3, 2020The Difference Between Bug Bounty and Next Gen Pen Test Last year we launched Next Generation Penetration Test (NGPT). It’s a new product with unique platform capabilities to meet organizations’ evolving application security needs as focused external threats grow at an accelerated pace. The next generation of pentesting can deliver… Read More
By Erica Azad Dec 2, 20203 Major Security Priorities in the COVID-19 Era 2020 is coming to a close, and it brought a lot of challenges and opportunities for the cybersecurity community, many of which were a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. The world saw a 500% increase in cyberattacks soon after the… Read More
By Breonna Burrell Dec 1, 2020Excellerate your Hunting with Bugcrowd and Microsoft! In partnership with Microsoft, Bugcrowd is excited to announce the launch of Excellerate, a tiered incentive program that will run through February 2021. Since 2019, Bugcrowd has partnered with Microsoft as a bounty payment provider, offering researchers more flexible payment… Read More
By Amp Somers Nov 24, 2020Announcing our Sp0o0ktacular October Challenge Winners! We’re so excited to announce the winners for Bugcrowd’s October Challenge month! Thank you to the Crowd for all of your incredible submissions, tweets and messages about the #Bugcrowdchallenge. We know some of you worked yourselves to the BONE but… Read More