Bug Cloud Today, the company announced that its platform has been selected as the bounty payment method. Google’s Bug Hunting Community (bughunters.google.com). As part of its efforts to improve the scale and speed of payouts to bug hunters, Google selected Bugcrowd, trusted by bug bounty customers around the world, to quickly and reliably pay security researchers on its industry-leading crowdsourced security platform.
Bug hunters already registered with Google can easily switch to Bugcrowd. https://www.bugcrowd.com/ You will then be able to update your payment settings in your bug hunter profile – many of our bug hunters are already members of Bugcrowd’s large crowd of bug hunters so no action is required from you.
“Bugcrowd’s platform significantly improves how we reward the bug hunter community. With orders of magnitude faster payouts and a variety of payment options, bug hunters can focus on what matters most: finding vulnerabilities and making the Internet a safer place for everyone,” said Jan Keller, technical program manager at Google.
“Bugcrowd’s mission is to empower the global cybersecurity community and make the digital world safer,” said Dave Gerry, CEO of Bugcrowd. “Partnering with Google to provide payment options for bug hunters is a testament to our commitment to streamline the bug bounty experience and enable it to scale quickly. We’re proud to offer our platform as a solution that not only increases efficiency but also enables talented hackers to quickly get rewarded for their valuable contributions to security. “Striking a delicate balance between the hacker community and companies that want to engage them in their bug bounty programs is a delicate and important one, but we’ve navigated this relationship successfully over the years and earned the trust of both sides.”
The Bugcrowd platform connects organizations with trusted hackers (also known as security researchers) to proactively protect assets from advanced threat actors. In this way, organizations can unleash the collective ingenuity of the hacking community to better discover and mitigate risks across applications, systems, and infrastructure. Crowdsourcing solutions include penetration testing as a service, managed bug bounties, and vulnerability disclosure programs (VDPs).
To learn more about Bugcrowd being selected as the new payment platform for Google’s Bug Hunting community, read our blog post. Announcing Bugcrowd as a new payment option on Bughunters.google.com.