Return on Investment – ROI. Sales departments have to show it, marketing departments have to show it, and of course, security departments do too. At the end of the day we all need to show where the dollars are going, and security teams have the additional burden of correlating those dollars spent with the elimination of risk – or the perceived elimination of risk.
The original post by James Wickett appeared originally on Signal Sciences Lab on 03/24/16.
I have reached the age 
where friends are getting roles like CISO or Director of Security or Senior Architect. All important titles with crucial tasks ahead of them. Usually when friends take these roles they immediately realize that they have found themselves in unfamiliar waters. The skills that got them to that role are not the skills they need to succeed.
This post is an exerpt from “A Bounty of Security,” originally posted on by Gregory Caswell on the Indeed Engineering Blog.
Editor’s Note: Today I’d like to introduce you to Bugcrowd member Anshuman Bhartiya (anshuman_bh). As an information security professional as well as bug bounty researcher, Anshuman has helped improve the security of many organizations. He has submitted several P1 & P2 bugs leading to his high standing within the programs he is involved in. As an active member on our Bugcrowd forum he also contributes to the bug bounty researcher community. This blog is from one of his responses on the forum that he has allowed us to post here. We are thrilled to share his thoughts and experience on how to successfully approach a target. Thanks!
Editor’s Note: Bugcrowd community researcher, Duarte Silva, shares the story behind how he started working in information security. Duarte is one of Bugcrowd’s top researchers, you can follow him on Twitter at @serializingme.
About the Author: Ben Sadeghipour has been participating in bug bounty programs since February of 2014. After his first few bugs, he came to realize that bug bounties are a great way to learn more about web application security as well as make some extra money while going to school – computer science major. Currently Ben is an intern at Bugcrowd and continues to do bug bounty research. You can see more of his work on nahamsec.com.
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