Casey Ellis, founder and CTO at Bugcrowd, said bug bounty hunters are ultimately entrepreneurs in their own right.
Why AI is widening the attacker-defender gap faster than anything we've built to close it — and what that actually means for the next decade of security.
As AI accelerates the offense-defense asymmetry, bug bounties and vulnerability disclosure remain essential. Casey Ellis on the future of bug bounties, the evolving threat landscape, and how disclose.io and the SRLDF protect the researchers keeping us safe.
* Every vulnerability costs something to put there. * Every vulnerability costs something to discover. * Every vulnerability costs something to fix. * The exploitation of every vulnerability has a value associated with it.
There's a fresh conversation happening about the distinction between bug bounty programs and vulnerability disclosure programs. This is an area where the distinction between a bug bounty program (cash or cash equivalent proactively offered to the public) and a vulnerability disclosure program (which can optionally offer a thank-you