Casey Ellis
Hacker, founder, advisor, and pioneer of crowdsourced security. Founder of Bugcrowd, co-founder of disclose.io, principal of Tall Poppy Group. Board member at SRLDF.
My moves during the RSAC/BSides SF circus
Quick post re where I’ll be speaking and attending while the infosec/cyberz are in town for RSA Conference and B-Sides: ps all of the Bugcrowd parties, workshops, and m
Managing smart device risk: A "how-to" for the average human.
I’m going to provide a practical, ubiquitous, and risk/benefit focussed version of the advice in the tweet, aimed at the average Internet citizen who wants to take advantage of these technologies, while understanding how they can minimize the risks that come with their use.
Firing your clients
This concept is pushed pretty hard in Tim Ferriss’ book the 4-Hour Work Week as well… In a nutshell – you don’t want EVERYONE to be your client. You only want the GOOD
Bricks and Pyramids
QOTD: You have to build the bricks before you can build the Pyramids.
Mastering the mundane
I live a pretty frenetic and busy life both activity-wise and mentally. Some of this is environmental, most of this is my own making, and almost all of it I love… But it’s important to be reminded to appreciate the simple and sometimes boring things too.
Happy 6th Birthday @bugcrowd
6 years ago today I got off a plane armed with a bunch of notes. I’d spent a week meeting with pen-testing customers in Melbourne, and I’d been talking to them about bug
Making noise
“We had a problem with a few needles, and as an industry decided that the best thing to do was to drop a haystack on them.” This is definitely QOTD from an old cybe
What's in a name? Defining "hacker" in 2018
If you do a Google Image Search against the word hacker, you’ll get images of scary-looking balaclava-clad cybercriminals hunched over a quintessentially green computer t
On insight, responsibility, and ownership
Recognizing a problem qualifies you to be a part of the solution. Refusing to be a part of the solution disqualifies you from complaining about the problem.
Living intentionally
Happy New Year! Pretty much everyone I’ve spoken agrees on the same thing: 2017 was a turbulent, change-filled year packed with as many high-highs as it had low-lows… bu
Thoughts on the vault7 CIA/Wikileaks disclosures
Wikileaks’ release of thousands of confidential CIA documents today is yet another demonstration of our just how vulnerable the cybersecurity domain is. Unless we do a be