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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.

Building

My #hackersummercamp 2023 moves

Here are my moves for #hackersummercamp 2023...

08 Aug 2023 · 1 min read
Thinking

KEYNOTE: Release the Hounds, Part 2

Casey delivers "Release the Hounds, Part 2 - 11 Years Is A Long-Ass Time" as the keynote for BSides Knoxville on May 12th, 2023. This talk covers the history of vulnerability disclosure and crowdsourced security testing platforms, and dives into cybersecurity entrepreneurship.

22 Jun 2023 · 1 min read
Building

Bugcrowd: 10 Years On, and Still Just Getting Started

On the 1st of September 2012 during a flight from Melbourne to Sydney, a series of ideas I’d been working on for a year or more coalesced with a bunch of conversations I’d just had, the lightbulb went off, and Bugcrowd was born.

01 Sep 2022 · 4 min read
Building

#HSC2022 in Pics

A small selection of selfies and pics from #HSC2022. It was a good homecoming.

21 Aug 2022 · 5 min read
Security

Where the bloody hell were you — The Great 2020 COVID Bug-In

During Hacker Summer Camp, I was asked "where do you, uh, live now and stuff" a lot. Forgive this slightly indulgent post, but I wanted to blog a little bit of our story, and some of the thinking that went into executing our trans-pacific COVID bug-in back in 2020.

20 Aug 2022 · 9 min read
Security

9 Must-See Talks at #hackersummercamp 2022

Here's a list of the talks that I'm going to get myself along to at Blackhat and DEF CON this year, and why...

04 Aug 2022 · 3 min read
Security

Digital and Personal Self-Care at #hackersummersamp — "New Normalish" Edition

I usually write a piece for first-timers and newbies on how to get the most out of Hacker Summer Camp and how to stay safe digitally and physically. This tradition began in the early days of Bugcrowd, when DEF CON was part of new-hire induction.

28 Jul 2022 · 6 min read
Security

Two-thirds of ethical hackers considering bug bounty hunting as a full-time career

Casey Ellis, founder and CTO at Bugcrowd, said bug bounty hunters are ultimately entrepreneurs in their own right.

30 May 2022 · 1 min read
Security

[TRANSCRIPT] Threats that may have gone unnoticed by organizations during the pandemic

Casey Ellis, the founder, chairman and CTO of Bugcrowd, told SC Media Senior Reporter Joe Uchill that companies should think about the various threat scenarios that emerged over the last year that they may have missed as employees return to the office environment.

20 Aug 2021 · 2 min read
Security

[TRANSCRIPT] Threat hunting in the age of work-from-home

Casey Ellis, the founder, chairman and CTO of Bugcrowd, told SC Media Senior Reporter Joe Uchill that there’s always going to be corporate infrastructure that provides information for a threat hunter, such as VPN, antivirus, and endpoint detection and response.

20 Aug 2021 · 2 min read
Security

IT Visionaries Podcast with Malcolm Harkness

On this roundtable episode of IT Visionaries, we explore the impact A.I. and technology are having on society and cybersecurity with Casey Ellis, the founder and CTO of Bugcrowd and Malcolm Harkins, a cybersecurity advisor, coach and board member.

06 Jul 2021 · 36 min read
Security

The Bar Fight Risk Taxonomy

After hearing "vulnerability" and "threat" used interchangeably for a >9,000th time I decided to do something about it, and the Bar Fight Risk Taxonomy was born.

26 Jun 2021 · 4 min read