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Processing experience into insight - retrospectives, lessons

Security

Krebs Has A Posse

14 Nov 2020 · 1 min read
Building

How the Pandemic is Reshaping the Bug Bounty Landscape

Bugcrowd Founder Casey Ellis talks about COVID-19’s impact on bug bounty hunters, bug bounty program adoption and more.

28 Oct 2020 · 2 min read
Personal

The Third-Quarter

"I'm exactly the same as I was nine months ago, but I'm also completely different."

25 Oct 2020 · 1 min read
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.”

23 Oct 2020 · 1 min read
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.

07 Oct 2020 ·
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."

05 Oct 2020 · 1 min read
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.

29 Sep 2020 · 3 min read
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.

29 Sep 2020 · 3 min read
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.

28 Sep 2020 · 4 min read
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.

22 Sep 2020 · 1 min read
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.

15 Sep 2020 · 1 min read
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.

11 Sep 2020 · 6 min read