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This interview originally appeared in Cybernews in April 2022. Trusting your cybersecurity team to identify vulnerabilities in your company’s security systems is vital. However, you’ll likely sleep better at night by getting a second look from an outsider. Such is the work that bug bounty hunters (ethical hackers) do. These specialists try to hack into […]
What does “internal” stand for in the context of an “internal bug bounty program’? Bug bounty programs are usually directed at security researchers who have an account with a bug bounty platform, such as Intigriti. However, there is also an option to include the employees working for the company that runs the program. As Hacker […]
Software Development Lifecycles (SDLCs) today have to take a huge number of security and privacy realities into consideration with every release — and with the widespread adoption of agile methodologies, release cycles have become more frequent. Such rapid, large-scale change in how software is produced, delivered and consumed has increased the need for continuous, proactive […]
200 years after the first design for a Panopticon, some security experts still dream of safeguarding the security of an entire institution from a single, centralized viewpoint. They are looking in the wrong direction. Cybersecurity teams who want to achieve comprehensive attack surface visibility should be looking to the future, not the past. Today, crowdsourced […]
How often do you read in the news about the great job a cybersecurity team just did? The inevitable response is just one of many reasons for today’s acute cybersecurity skills gap. Information security hiring managers are struggling to attract enough talent, and most pundits consider understaffed security teams as bad news for cybersecurity. A […]
To compare vulnerability scanners vs bug bounty programs is, in many ways, to bring the long-standing debate about humans vs machines to the realm of cybersecurity. Automated tools, like security scanners, have been helping protect computers and networks for decades now. Recently, automation has progressed so rapidly that the battle of human vs machine might […]
Rapidly evolving technology has created a world whereby cybersecurity must grow and mature at equal speed. Your IT security posture should anticipate fast change by providing real-world, real-time testing of your cyber defenses for known and unknown threats. This article looks at how to use a bug bounty program as a cornerstone of this agile […]
While the cultural stereotype of a hacker sitting in front of a monochrome CRT tapping obscure terminal commands makes for interesting fiction, the damage real hackers do is far less entertaining. In this article, Intigriti discusses attack surface management best practices that help organizations stay one step ahead of malicious hackers. We’ll explain how using […]
If you’re watching the Olympic Games, you’ll know that the leaderboard shows the top-performing countries based on the successes of their athletes. In the case of Intigriti’s Leaderboard, the athletes are an elite team of ethical hackers, and their arena is an ever-expanding attack surface that evolves at Darwinian-like speed. The competition? Hidden vulnerabilities embedded […]
As Customer Success Manager at Intigriti, I’m often faced with the same question: How can we maximise ethical hacker participation in our bug bounty program? To answer this query, we asked our security researcher community what their top reasons were for picking a bug bounty target as part of our Ethical Hacker Insights Report 2021. […]