By David Baker Nov 8, 2019Bugcrowd pays out a half million dollars to whitehat hackers in one week! Over the last seven years, Bugcrowd has been proudly rewarding the whitehat hacker community for their skills and creativity in identifying some of the most impactful security issues for our customers. As those on the Bugcrowd platform know, and often… Read More
By David Baker Jan 28, 2019Data Privacy Day? Here’s what you need to know. Happy Data Privacy Day! Data Privacy Day is an annual awareness day to spotlight and foster education around online privacy and data protection. The National Cyber Security Alliance, Stay Safe Online holds Data Privacy Day every year on January 28… Read More
By David Baker Dec 11, 20182019 Predictions – Virtual Cloud Environments and Orchestration Security 2019 will be an interesting year. Security leaders have a daunting task -- identifying where their vulnerabilities are fast and how to fix them...before it’s too late. The risks are there and with more complex systems, security will be more… Read More
By David Baker Aug 2, 2018The Bugcrowd Leaderboard: Champions are made, not born Michael Jordan once said, “Champions are made, not born.” There exists many variants to this saying, by many different people The saying speaks to the fact that hard work, determination, and never giving up are the main ingredients for success.… Read More
By David Baker May 30, 2018Bugcrowd Achieves SOC 2 Type I Compliance As a security company, our customers expect us to have a mature world-class security program. Their data is sensitive, and they expect the companies that store it on their behalf, to have the best security measures in place to keep… Read More
By David Baker May 30, 2018Bugcrowd Achieves SOC 2 Type I Compliance As a security company, our customers expect us to have a mature world-class security program. Their data is sensitive, and they expect the companies that store it on their behalf, to have the best security measures in place to keep… Read More
By David Baker Feb 22, 20182018 CISO Investment Blueprint As we saw in 2017, the number of data breaches and cyber-attacks is not slowing down. What’s more, security leaders are still focused on finding and investing in defensive tools to combat cybercrime. And yet still, adversaries are getting more… Read More
By David Baker Jan 30, 2018Announcing Our ISO 27001 Certification We hit a big milestone for Bugcrowd today. We are excited to announce we're ISO 27001 certified! ISO 27001 is one of the most widely recognized and internationally accepted information security standards. It’s one of the few standards that uses a… Read More
By David Baker Nov 27, 2017The Uber Breach: Extortion Does Not Equal Bug Bounty The bug bounty market is growing quickly. While an increasing number of organizations are embracing the concept, there still remains some confusion and ambiguity around paying hackers for vulnerabilities. Events like recently disclosed Uber breach illustrate this confusion. I’ll take this opportunity to clarify and define this rapidly evolving market. Read More
By David Baker Nov 21, 2017How Understanding Researcher Motivations Can Help You Run a Successful Bug Bounty Program Last week, we released our second annual Inside the Mind of a Hacker 2.0 report. We dove into different hacker profiles, their motivations for hacking, and the impact building a relationship makes on a successful bug bounty program. We found lots of interesting stats on our bug hunting community, both expected and surprising. Read More
