With new attack vectors comes an increase in the number of ways that known and unknown vulnerabilities can be exploited. To level the playing field, organizations are turning to crowdsourced security.

The Crowd — the community of hackers, researchers, and pentesters on Bugcrowd’s Crowd control platform — identifies vulnerabilities that attackers exploit, which in turn protects organizations of all levels. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that in the last year alone we saw a 29% increase in crowdsourced programs launched and a 92% increase in submissions on these programs.

In this webinar, David Baker, CSO at Bugcrowd, explained how Bugcrowd’s six steps make finding and fixing vulnerabilities easy with crowdsourced security:

1. Take reports seriously
2. Take responsibility         
3. Communicate
4. Validate
5. Close the loop
6. Broaden scope; increase rewards

Additionally, we discussed best practices for fixing vulnerabilities and provided real-world examples of organizations that have avoided the financial and reputational cost of a breach through the use of crowdsourced security.