
By Byron V. Acohido
From Kickstarter to Wikipedia, crowdsourcing has become a part of everyday life.
Sharing intel for a greater goodNow one distinctive type of crowdsourcing — ethical hacking – is positioned to become a much more impactful component of securing modern networks.
I had a terrific discussion about this at Black Hat USA 2023 with Casey Ellis, founder and CTO of Bugcrowd, a pioneer in the crowdsourced security market. Bugcrowd ushered in crowdsourced security with its launch in 2012, and today a covey of vendors have followed suit, each supplying intricate platforms to connect hackers with proven skillsets to companies that have particular needs.
“What we’ve got under the hood is effectively a dating website for people who are good at breaking into computers,” Ellis says.
Crowdsourced security vendors (others include Synack, Hacker One and Intigriti) make it seamless for companies to tap into a global network of software coders, and set them on