Menke 3,000 bugcrowd: Keep a bunch of hackers, specifically for you to catch bu

Bugcrowd, which is committed to finding software vulnerabilities for customers, recently received a 6 million dollar a round of financing, which mainly provides enterprise security testing services in crowdsourcing mode. This round of financing is funded by Costanoa Venture Capital, Rally Ventures, Paladin Group and Lackbird Ventures.

What Bugcrowd do is actually pretty cool:

Security issues have always been the focus of business spending a lot of money. Large companies like Microsoft, Google, or Facebook have their own bugs Bounty program model, which is the bug-reward mechanism used to detect the safety and reliability of their software or products. Using this mechanism or system, these large enterprises can be as far as possible in the software vulnerabilities before exposure before the discovery and resolution. But other small businesses are less fortunate, and most of their vulnerabilities have been discovered after hacking attacks.

If hackers can attack vulnerabilities, they are naturally the best candidates for vulnerabilities and bugs. Bugcrowd then created a community dedicated to the "righteous Hacker" (white hat), a community where hackers specialize in finding security issues and finding loopholes. In Bugcrowd's own words, they offer a bunch of "guys,who" for "the bad guys in your corner".

The effect of finding software vulnerabilities in crowdsourcing mode is much higher than the average outsourced security testing service. Bugcrowd, which already has 15,000 highly skilled hackers (they call themselves researcher), is Menke 3,000, and the efficiency of these hackers is staggering. On the other hand, for the enterprise, the amount of money spent on the vulnerability is also relatively much less. It is said that some hackers look for vulnerabilities even just out of getting an honor and a better ranking, because Bugcrowd will be ranked as a hacker to arrange more challenging tasks and higher remuneration.

Facebook paid 1.3 million of billions of dollars in a loophole in 2014. The Bugcrowd platform has docked the needs of the enterprise and the people who have the ability to solve this demand, overall reduced the cost of security testing.

In addition to finding vulnerabilities, companies like usertesting provide large, reliable test users. User testing and vulnerability lookup, in fact, is only the whole software development ecosystem more easily found in the two links. As more and more enterprise customers appear, for all aspects of software development, will produce some new services. The software is driven by another wave of more solid, more sophisticated development services for developers, and another wave of entrepreneurial opportunities in the Internet arena.