Bug bounties, vulnerability disclosure, PTaaS, fractional pentesting - Grant McCracken - ASW #306
5 November 2024 - 1 hour 5 minsAfter spending a decade working for appsec vendors, Grant McKracken wanted to give something back. He saw a gap in the market for free or low-cost services for smaller organizations that have real appsec needs, but not a lot of means to pay for it. He founded DarkHorse, who offers VDPs and bug bounties to organizations of all sizes for free, or for as low of cost as possible.
While not a non-profit, the company's goal is to make these services as cheap as possible to increase accessibility for smaller or more budget-constrained organizations. The company has also introduced the concept of "fractional pentesting", access to cyber talent when and how you need it, based on what you can afford...
Series Episodes
Security That Sticks: Shaping Human Behavior - Rinki Sethi, Nicole Jiang - BSW #418
1 hour 3 mins
22 October Finished
The Afterlife, AWS, ClickFix, Agentic AI, Robot Lumberjacks, Robocalls, Aaran Leyland - SWN #522
37 mins
21 October Finished
Reacting to Ransomware and Setting Secure Defaults - Rob Allen - ASW #353
1 hour 3 mins
21 October Finished
Mitigating attacks against AI-enabled Apps, Replacing the CIA triad, Enterprise News - David Brauchler - ESW #429
1 hour 38 mins
20 October Finished
Erotic Chats, UEFI, F5, Cisco, Doug Sings, Insiders, Lastpass, Sora, Aaran Leyland... - SWN #521
35 mins
17 October Finished
