Bugcrowd runs a crowdsourced cybersecurity platform connecting organisations with ethical hackers for bug bounties, penetration testing, vulnerability disclosure and red team operations.
Bugcrowd runs a crowdsourced cybersecurity platform that connects organisations with skilled ethical hackers to find and fix vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, with offices across the United States, the company serves customers including Atlassian, Mastercard, NASA, OpenAI, T-Mobile and government agencies worldwide, and draws on a global community of security researchers.
Its technical work spans several domains: ethical hacking and bug bounty programmes, vulnerability management and disclosure, penetration testing, red team operations, AI-powered talent matching and attack surface monitoring. The company's products include the patented Security Knowledge Platform™, which enables continuous hunting for hidden vulnerabilities across an organisation's attack surface, and CrowdMatch™, an AI-powered system that matches organisations with the most relevant researchers from the global security community. Bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure programme management, crowdsourced penetration testing and red team operations round out the offering.
Bugcrowd positions its approach as proactive and crowd-powered rather than traditional testing, built on the premise that the collective ingenuity of the global security community outpaces any single team. It emphasises scalability, expertise and speed in security delivery across verticals including software development, financial services, technology and SaaS, telecommunications, government and the public sector, and space and aerospace.
