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Casey Ellis

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.

Security

Pain of staying the same > Pain of change = Change

Cybersecurity has long been a challenge lead from the top down, but as heat increases in the consumer market and hacking becomes dinner-table conversation at non-geek dinner-tables, I wonder...

21 Mar 2016 · 1 min read
vulnerability-disclosure

On the U.S. Government and bug bounties

My favorite thing about going to conferences is establishing the underlying trends behind the questions I’m asked. We’re only half-way through

06 Mar 2016 · 3 min read
Building

Repeat after me — I am not ashamed of sales and marketing!

I find that people are often ashamed, almost embarrassed to talk about sales and marketing. “Yeah, we’re going OK, we’re actually… kind

26 Jan 2016 · 1 min read
Building

Bugcrowd's First Principles

About 12 months after Bugcrowd started, one of our team pulled me aside and made a suggestion that truly altered the course of the

31 Dec 2015 · 3 min read
Security

3 years, 20,000 Security Researchers & 200 Clients later...

2012 was the year that almost every industry, banking, education, government, big tech and even security, was hacked. Many, if not all of these

08 Oct 2015 · 3 min read
leadership

Becoming CEO

The goal of a founder is to do everything. The goal of a CEO is to do nothing.

30 Sep 2015 · 1 min read
Building

On Cogs and Levers (strength in diversity)

A dear friend of mine was a linesman with a national telco for 17 years. He drove all around Australia pulling copper. He’s

16 Mar 2015 · 1 min read
Building

8,000 Miles + 1 Wife + 2 Kids + 1 Startup = ???

I remember when I first landed in Silicon Valley in April of 2013. Bugcrowd was 3 months old, and we’d seen enough early

15 Mar 2015 · 3 min read
Thinking

Humility (n)

I know am strong, and also know where I’m weak makes me even stronger.

19 Feb 2015 · 1 min read
Building

Sales and Marketing — the good, the bad, and the Ugly

The good: * Introducing someone to something that genuinely serves a need that they have (marketing) and having them accept it on terms that are

18 Feb 2015 · 1 min read
vulnerability-disclosure

disclose.io — Driving safety, simplicity, and standardization in vulnerability disclosure.

disclose.io is a collaborative and vendor-agnostic project to standardize best practices around safe harbour for good-faith security research. The project expands

22 Jul 2014 · 1 min read
Building

Some Thoughts from pushstart’s Mentor Connect

Kim Heras and the Pushstart crew put on another Mentor Live event last night. Think speed dating for start-ups and mentors. I was

15 Dec 2012 · 3 min read