Node Summit 2016 – Welcome to the blue team! Creating “oh shit” moments for fun and profit.

Exploring the dynamics and relationship between the hacker community and the engineering coalface. Today’s cybersecurity battle is not a fair fight. The attackers — growing in numbers and sophistication — have overwhelmed the comparatively small pool of defenders. Add an engineering team that’s economically incentivized to ignore security, and you’re off to a bad start. This talk is story of what happens to engineers the first time some random kid 8,000 miles away hacks their stuff as a part of their bug bounty. It’s about its outsourcing the creation of the “oh shit” moment, and seeing your engineering team become a blue team. Why is this about pairing engineering teams with hackers specifically? Because it addresses a marked gap: people who build things for a living paired with people who break things for a living.

Casey Ellis, Founder and CEO, Bugcrowd