Cyber security is described as a form of asymmetric warfare. One side, the defenders, have limited numbers -- just the security team. The other side includes every blackhat hacker in the world -- that is, many, many thousands. The blackhats only need to succeed once; the defenders need to succeed many times every day. Bugcrowd seeks to reverse this impossible mathematics.
Silicon Valley-based Bugcrowd was founded in 2012 by Casey Ellis (chairman and CTO), Chris Raethke, and Sergei Belokamen. It crowdsources bug hunting to thousands of ethical hackers around the globe, running both public and private competition programs to locate bugs in named applications, using big data and machine learning to match expertise with problems.
In doing this, it reverses some of the mathematics in attack versus defense, making cybersecurity closer to symmetric warfare. It also gives the firm access to the collective mind of the hacker. Each year it taps into this resource to produce an annual analysis, Inside the Mind of a Hacker (viewer). The 2020 version of this analysis uses 3,493 survey responses, ethical hacking activity on the platform from May 2019 to April 2020, together with more than 1,500 successful programs and 7.7 million platform interactions.
The Bugcrowd ethical hackers are international and diverse. The greatest number are located in India (up 83% from last year), followed by the U.S. and then Pakistan. The UK ranks sixth in this list, with Germany at tenth. Most hackers are multi-lingual, with 73% speaking 2 to 3 languages, and a further 16% speaking more than 3 languages. One-third have more than one nationality, but most live in the country of their birth. Interestingly, putting hard figures on a long-held suspicion, 13% describe themselves as neurodiverse, with nearly half ..
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