Personal
The Third-Quarter
"I'm exactly the same as I was nine months ago, but I'm also completely different."
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.
Policy
VentureBeat: How ethical hackers are trying to protect the 2020 U.S. elections
“All software is vulnerable,” Bugcrowd CTO Casey Ellis said. “It just depends on how long you’re taking to look to find those vulnerabilities. Humans write code, and humans make mistakes.”
Thinking
Data is the new oil: Breach edition
Data is the new oil... It spills everywhere, trashes the environment, and is impossible to clean up. Think before you store.
Building
Cyber Talk Episode 14 w/ Pratik Dabhi
Cyber Talk EP14 - Casey Ellis talks about entrepreneurship, motivation, cybersecurity & @Bugcrowd
Security
Vulnerability annihilation since 1851
"What Hobbs had in mind was not the usual cajoling of a provincial bank into an upgrade, but exposing weaknesses in the British Empire itself by revealing the faults of one of Day and Newell’s competitors."
Policy
Iowa launches vulnerability disclosure program for election-related sites
The State of Iowa has partnered with Bugcrowd to launch a vulnerability disclosure program on election infrastructure.
Security
Information Asymmetry and the 1950s Nuclear Bounty
Props to Matt Ploessel for calling out this one... I'd not heard of a bounty around nuclear weapons until today.
Security
Are you making a Walkman? Or an iPod?
When the walkman was introduced, it created a category. It's brand also became the term of description for that category.
Building
NIST SP 800-53 R5 adds Vulnerability Disclosure Programs
NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5 is yet another step towards the legitimization of the Internet’s Immune System. Everyone who has worked on legitimizing the work of good-faith hackers for the past 30 years or more can feel encouraged by this release.
Personal
Quick note for mentees
Seasoned experts get as much out of the “feet on the street” insights and energy of younger mentee as the mentee gets from their wisdom of the mentor.
Personal
4 Questions for Leaders
I had a coach share this with me a little while back and it resonated - It's a valuable and simple framework, and a good set of questions to always be in a position to answer.
Building
Techcrunch: Use ‘productive paranoia’ to build cybersecurity culture at your startup
At TechCrunch Early Stage, we asked Casey Ellis, founder, chairman and chief technology officer at Bugcrowd, to share his ideas for how startups can improve their security posture.