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# How the Pandemic is Reshaping the Bug Bounty Landscape
- URL: https://cje.io/2020/10/28/how-the-pandemic-is-reshaping-the-bug-bounty-landscape/
- Published: 2020-10-28T22:14:22.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-08T00:13:59.000Z
- Description: Bugcrowd Founder Casey Ellis talks about COVID-19’s impact on bug bounty hunters, bug bounty program adoption and more.
- Author: Casey Ellis
- Tags: Building, Learn, #bugcrowd

> Bugcrowd Founder Casey Ellis talks about COVID-19’s impact on bug bounty hunters, bug bounty program adoption and more.  
> The pandemic has overhauled the bug-bounty landscape, both for companies looking to adopt such programs and the bounty hunters themselves. Casey Ellis, founder and CTO of Bugcrowd, said that COVID-19’s far-reaching implications — including increasing the acceptance of remote work, pushing more users to digital platforms and other aspects — are creating unanticipated new trends for bug-bounty platforms.

[How the Pandemic is Reshaping the Bug Bounty LandscapeBugcrowd Founder Casey Ellis talks about COVID-19′s impact on bug bounty hunters, bug bounty program adoption and more.![](https://threatpost.com/wp-content/themes/threatpost-2018/assets/images/favicon/apple-touch-icon.png)ThreatpostLindsey O’Donnell![](https://media.threatpost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/103/2020/09/25150114/Bug-Bounty-Code_small.jpg)](https://threatpost.com/pandemic-reshaping-bug-bounty-landscape/160644/?ref=cje.io)

> For one, new work-from-home models caused by the pandemic has created more pressure on digital platforms — including [collaboration tools like Zoom](https://threatpost.com/grindrs-bug-bounty-pledge-security/159893/?ref=cje.io) — to secure their platforms, creating a bigger motivation for these firms to launch or enhance bug-bounty programs. At the same time, the mandatory push to remote work has opened a new level of acceptance for companies working with bounty hunters who are not physically present within the organization.  
> “We’ve seen \[hesitation around remote work\] really get challenged in a positive way by COVID, which is netted out to more people being comfortable with the idea of getting expert security help in from the outside world,” Ellis said.  
> On a broader scale, Ellis said that he’s seen ethical hackers begin to put in more serious time searching for bugs: “People just had more discretionary time” during the pandemic, he said. “Because they weren’t going out, or commuting to and from work, and especially if you’re a younger person, or if you don’t have as many commitments at home, that nets out to more time to do stuff, which we saw get applied into bounty hunting.”