San Francisco, November 16, 2016 – Okta, a leading provider of identity for the enterprise, today launched a public bug bounty program with Bugcrowd, the pioneer and innovator in crowdsourced security testing. After an extended private bug bounty program with Bugcrowd, this new public program will leverage the full scope of Bugcrowd’s more than 40,000 cybersecurity researchers. The program will augment Okta’s industry-leading security team and strategy to further enhance the security of the Okta Identity Cloud.
“At Okta, we’re squarely focused on customer success. For my security team, that translates directly to customer security and assurance. Our private bug bounty program with Bugcrowd expanded coverage of my internal attack team by adding a solid bench of diversity and breadth of capabilities. By moving to a public program, we can now take advantage of the full extent and resources of Bugcrowd’s curated crowd,” said David Baker, Chief Security Officer at Okta. “Bugcrowd has quickly become an integral part of our overall security program. It enables my internal team to focus their assessments to the critical earlier stages of product design and development. We’re excited to expand our security program with today’s public launch.”
Bugcrowd connects organizations to a curated crowd of tens of thousands of security researchers from around the world to identify vulnerabilities in applications, devices, and code – before the bad guys do. By providing a curated crowd of researchers, managing programs on a simple to use platform, and providing deep expertise in setting up and managing programs, B