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Bugcrowd Introduces AI Penetration Testing to Improve Customers' Confidence in AI Adoption

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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bugcrowd, the leader in crowdsourced security, today introduced the availability of its AI Pen Testing on the Bugcrowd Platform to help AI adopters detect common security flaws before threat actors take advantage. AI Pen Testing is now part of  Bugcrowd's AI Safety and Security Solutions portfolio, in addition to the recently announced AI Bias Assessment offering.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, May 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bugcrowd , the leader in crowdsourced security, today introduced the availability of its AI Pen Testing on the Bugcrowd Platform to help AI adopters detect common security flaws before threat actors take advantage.
  • AI Pen Testing is now part of  Bugcrowd's AI Safety and Security Solutions portfolio , in addition to the recently announced AI Bias Assessment offering.
  • AI also presents new categories of potential security vulnerabilities, as reflected in President Biden's Executive Order 14110 that calls for "AI red teaming" (methods unspecified) by all government agencies.
  • To learn how the Bugcrowd Platform can equip your organization to protect itself from AI risk, visit Bugcrowd.com or download The Ultimate Guide to AI Security .

Portnox and Bugcrowd to Launch Private Bug Bounty Program to Provide Best-In-Class Unified Access Control

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

AUSTIN, Texas, April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Portnox , a leading provider of cloud-native, zero trust access control solutions, today announced it will soon launch a private bug bounty program with Bugcrowd , the leader in crowdsourced security.

Key Points: 
  • AUSTIN, Texas, April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Portnox , a leading provider of cloud-native, zero trust access control solutions, today announced it will soon launch a private bug bounty program with Bugcrowd , the leader in crowdsourced security.
  • The Portnox bug bounty program will offer a bounty for ethical hackers, also known as "white hat hackers," to uncover and report software security vulnerabilities within Portnox's production services.
  • "This bug bounty program is part of our ongoing efforts to ensure that we provide customers with best-in-class security for their enterprise networks and applications," said Denny LeCompte, CEO of Portnox.
  • Companies that currently participate in public bug bounty programs with Bugcrowd include Atlassian, ExpressVPN, Rapyd, TMobile, USAA, Viator, and more.

Bugcrowd Launches AI Bias Assessment Offering for LLM Applications

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bugcrowd, the leader in crowdsourced security, today announced the availability of AI Bias Assessments as part of its AI Safety and Security Solutions portfolio on the Bugcrowd Platform. AI Bias Assessment taps the power of the crowd to help enterprises and government agencies adopt Large Language Model (LLM) applications safely, efficiently,  and confidently. 

Key Points: 
  • AI Bias Assessment taps the power of the crowd to help enterprises and government agencies adopt Large Language Model (LLM) applications safely, efficiently,  and confidently.
  • Bugcrowd AI Bias Assessments are private, reward-for-results engagements on the Bugcrowd Platform that activate trusted, third-party security researchers (aka a "crowd") to identify and prioritize data bias flaws in LLM applications.
  • "ConductorAI's partnership with Bugcrowd for the AI Bias Assessment program has been highly successful.
  • To learn more about the Bugcrowd AI Bias Assessment offering, visit here .

Bugcrowd Secures $102 Million in Strategic Growth Funding to Scale AI-Powered Crowdsourced Security Platform

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Monday, February 12, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bugcrowd has secured $102 million in strategic growth financing to scale its AI-powered crowdsourced security platform offerings globally. Led by General Catalyst, with participation from longtime existing investors Rally Ventures and Costanoa Ventures, this funding round underscores investor confidence in the company's leadership position in the crowdsourced security market. The additional capital enables Bugcrowd to accelerate growth across EMEA, APAC, and the United States, fund continued innovation into the Bugcrowd Platform, and leverage opportunities for strategic M&A, providing added value to clients, partners, and the hacker community.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bugcrowd has secured $102 million in strategic growth financing to scale its AI-powered crowdsourced security platform offerings globally.
  • The additional capital enables Bugcrowd to accelerate growth across EMEA, APAC, and the United States, fund continued innovation into the Bugcrowd Platform, and leverage opportunities for strategic M&A, providing added value to clients, partners, and the hacker community.
  • Bugcrowd's proactive approach to cybersecurity involves leveraging a crowdsourced AI-powered platform to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities before bad actors can exploit them.
  • To learn more about how the Bugcrowd Platform can equip your organization to protect itself from cyber risk, access link here .

Bugcrowd Secures $102 Million in Strategic Growth Funding to Scale AI-Powered Crowdsourced Security Platform

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Monday, February 12, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bugcrowd has secured $102 million in strategic growth financing to scale its AI-powered crowdsourced security platform offerings globally. Led by General Catalyst, with participation from longtime existing investors Rally Ventures and Costanoa Ventures, this funding round underscores investor confidence in the company's leadership position in the crowdsourced security market. The additional capital enables Bugcrowd to accelerate growth across EMEA, APAC, and the United States, fund continued innovation into the Bugcrowd Platform, and leverage opportunities for strategic M&A, providing added value to clients, partners, and the hacker community.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bugcrowd has secured $102 million in strategic growth financing to scale its AI-powered crowdsourced security platform offerings globally.
  • The additional capital enables Bugcrowd to accelerate growth across EMEA, APAC, and the United States, fund continued innovation into the Bugcrowd Platform, and leverage opportunities for strategic M&A, providing added value to clients, partners, and the hacker community.
  • Bugcrowd's proactive approach to cybersecurity involves leveraging a crowdsourced AI-powered platform to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities before bad actors can exploit them.
  • To learn more about how the Bugcrowd Platform can equip your organization to protect itself from cyber risk, access link here .

Bugcrowd Launches CrowdConnect Partner Program to Further Empower Global Ecosystem of Partners

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bugcrowd, the only multi-solution crowdsourced cybersecurity platform, today launched the CrowdConnect™ Partner Program to empower global partners to leverage the crowd to defend against today's fast moving cyber adversaries. The CrowdConnect Partner Program accelerates the growth and maturity of Bugcrowd's rich ecosystem of partners by recruiting, enabling, and nurturing them to market, influence, integrate, sell and deliver cyber security solutions and offerings.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bugcrowd , the only multi-solution crowdsourced cybersecurity platform, today launched the CrowdConnect™ Partner Program to empower global partners to leverage the crowd to defend against today's fast moving cyber adversaries.
  • The CrowdConnect Partner Program accelerates the growth and maturity of Bugcrowd's rich ecosystem of partners by recruiting, enabling, and nurturing them to market, influence, integrate, sell and deliver cyber security solutions and offerings.
  • "We've designed CrowdConnect to be valuable for our partners, allowing them to differentiate their products through access to our Bugcrowd Platform.
  • The CrowdConnect Partner Program brings together partners spanning traditional and non-traditional channels – including Resale Partners, Managed Security Service Providers, Agent/Referral Partners, Consultants/Advisors, System Integrators, Technology Alliance and Referral Partners – ensuring they never face today's cybersecurity challenges alone.

Open Scope Crowdsourced Security Programs Find 10X More Critical Vulnerabilities

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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Bugcrowd, the only multi-solution crowdsourced cybersecurity platform, today released its annual "Inside the Platform: Bugcrowd's Vulnerability Trends Report." The report highlights the types of vulnerability submissions that are on the rise today, according to global hackers. It also documents the steady adoption of public crowdsourced programs based on growing awareness and acceptance of crowdsourced security strategies.

Key Points: 
  • It also documents the steady adoption of public crowdsourced programs based on growing awareness and acceptance of crowdsourced security strategies.
  • The government industry sector saw the fastest growth for crowdsourced security in 2023 compared to 2022, with a 151% increase in vulnerability submissions and a 58% increase in Priority 1 (or P1) rewards for finding critical vulnerabilities.
  • In the past year, enterprises also increasingly favored public crowdsourced programs over private ones, while programs with open scopes received 10X more P1 vulnerabilities than those with limited scopes.
  • The report also examines how different hacker roles contribute to crowdsourced security, and how crowdsourced security platforms can provide powerful warning systems to uncover vulnerabilities.

Bugcrowd Platform Implements Industry-First AI Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy for LLMs

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Tuesday, December 19, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bugcrowd, the only multi-solution crowdsourced cybersecurity platform, today announced updates to the Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy (VRT) that define and prioritize crowdsourced vulnerabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) for the first time. The VRT is an ongoing open-source effort to standardize how hacker submissions of suspected vulnerabilities are reported in an industry-standard way, and is implemented in the Bugcrowd Platform for use by hackers, customers, and Bugcrowd's application security engineers.

Key Points: 
  • Since the VRT's creation, hundreds of thousands of vulnerability submissions have been created, validated, triaged, and accepted by program owners on the Bugcrowd Platform.
  • "With these AI security-related updates to the VRT, the Bugcrowd Platform is positioned as the leading option for meeting that goal."
  • To learn more about how the Bugcrowd Platform can equip your organization to protect itself from cyber risk, access link here .
  • Register here to join our upcoming webinar: AI Safety and Compliance: Securing the New AI Attack Surface with Bugcrowd Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Casey Ellis and Zach Long, Founder at Conductor AI.

Bugcrowd Announces Rapid Growth of Customer Base Year Over Year

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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bugcrowd, the only multi-solution crowdsourced cybersecurity platform, today announced significant global customer momentum, highlighting the market need for Bugcrowd's crowdsourced cybersecurity platform. The company's rapidly growing customer base includes top brands such as Rapyd, ExpressVPN and T-Mobile, which have chosen to partner with Bugcrowd for one or more of its Bug Bounty, Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Disclosure Programs.

Key Points: 
  • Serving more than 850 organizations worldwide, Bugcrowd empowers customers and hackers to unleash their ingenuity to protect brands and intellectual property.
  • The company drove over 50% growth in payments to the hacker community through customer programs, amplifying a pivotal time of remarkable growth and innovation for the Bugcrowd Platform.
  • Bugcrowd's latest customers include U.K.-based fintech company Rapyd, who chose Bugcrowd for its ability to support organizations around the globe in scaling their security programs to meet rapid organizational growth.
  • This remains our ultimate goal and it's why Bugcrowd is trusted by over 850 organizations around the world," said Dave Gerry, CEO of Bugcrowd.

Bugcrowd Supercharges Leadership Team and Appoints New Board Chair and New Advisory Board Member

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bugcrowd, the only multi-solution crowdsourced cybersecurity platform, today announced the appointment of Rally Ventures Partner and former Bugcrowd interim CEO Michael Jennings as Board Chair and Netskope APAC Chief Information Officer & Chief Security Officer David Fairman to its Advisory Board, along with a handful of top technology veterans to its leadership team. The appointments come at a time of significant expansion of the company's global workforce and market depth of the platform, along with unprecedented revenue growth.

Key Points: 
  • "I am thrilled to take on the additional responsibilities of the Board Chair role at Bugcrowd as they continue to pioneer the crowdsourced cybersecurity market," said Jennings.
  • I am proud to continue supporting them as they continue to usher in a new era of cybersecurity."
  • "I am delighted to have both industry leaders Michael Jennings and David Fairman join the Bugcrowd team," said Dave Gerry, Chief Executive Officer of Bugcrowd.
  • This new physical presence in New Hampshire is indispensable to Bugcrowd, as it brings the company's innovative, collaborative culture to the surrounding community.