Bugcrowd

What is Bugcrowd?

Bugcrowd is a crowdsourced cybersecurity platform that combines security researchers, penetration testers and AI to find vulnerabilities. It offers bug bounty, penetration testing as a service, red team services, vulnerability disclosure and attack surface management. Customers include Atlassian, Mastercard, NASA, OpenAI and Pinterest, according to the vendor.

Key features of Bugcrowd

• Bug bounty: continuous testing by researchers, paying only for results.
• Penetration testing: Pen Test as a Service and AI Pen Test for web, mobile, network, API, IoT and cloud.
• Red Team as a Service: adversary-style testing.
• Vulnerability disclosure: intake program for externally reported issues.
• Attack surface management: find exposed assets.
• Triage and CrowdMatch: engineered triage and matching of researchers to programs.
• AI Bias Assessment: testing of AI systems for bias.

How Bugcrowd works

A customer launches a program, such as a bug bounty or pen test, and the platform matches researchers by skill. Submissions go through triage and are rated using the Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy before reaching the customer. Findings flow into tools such as Jira and Slack.

Who uses Bugcrowd?

Bugcrowd serves security and application security teams in financial services, healthcare, retail, automotive, technology and government. The vendor reports a 4.9 out of 5 rating on G2.

Bugcrowd pricing

Bugcrowd does not publish pricing. Programs are scoped and quoted by the vendor, and buyers request a demo or risk review.

Bugcrowd integrations

Bugcrowd integrates with Slack and Jira and has an integrations section for other ticketing and workflow tools.

Bugcrowd alternatives

Cobalt offers pentest as a service with a vetted community of testers. Pentera and Horizon3.ai provide automated penetration testing software rather than human researchers. Bugcrowd combines crowdsourced researchers, managed pen tests and attack surface tools.