Casey Ellis

Casey Ellis is an Australian cybersecurity expert, entrepreneur, and speaker based in San Francisco, California.[2] He is known for pioneering the crowdsourced Security-as-a-Service model[3][4] and has contributed to Federal and State-level elections security policy in the USA.[5] He is often quoted by mainstream media outlets in the United States and Australia.[6][7]

Casey Ellis
Born
Casey John Ellis
OccupationCybersecurity expert, entrepreneur, and speaker
Years active2002-present
Known forBugcrowd[1]
Websitecje.io

Career

Casey Ellis began his career as a penetration tester. In 2012, he pioneered the crowdsourced Security-as-a-Service model and launched the first program known as Bugcrowd.[8] After two years, he founded disclose.io, an open-source project for vulnerability disclosure and safe-harbor.[9]

In 2017, Casey Ellis became a mentor for CyRise, a venture accelerator focused on early-stage cybersecurity startups based in Melbourne, Australia.[10] He is also a mentor and advisor for the Australian financial business Startmate.[11]

In 2019, he joined Flirtey which is a Nevada-based drone delivery company and served in their advisory board.[11] In 2020, he became a member of the CTI League, a volunteer group of 1,400 cybersecurity experts from 76 countries around the world working to neutralize all cyber threats looking to exploit the current Covid-19 pandemic.[12]

Casey Ellis has been an active advocate for rights of good-faith cybersecurity research. His speaking engagements including Black Hat USA, RSA Conference,[13] Shmoocon,[14] ENISA Incibe, Usenix ENIGMA, Derbycon,[15] SOURCEConf, AISA, AusCERT etc.[16]

gollark: It honestly seems mostly pointless though, given that it doesn't go through walls and apparently works at roughly... cable ranges.
gollark: I've never heard it called WiFi type C, I thought it was just 802.11ad or something.
gollark: I like space too, but it turns out I can get basically the same information in half the time because it's a slow video.]
gollark: You are clearly more patient than me.
gollark: This is cool at 2x speed.

References
  1. "Tesla's new bug bounty protects hackers — and your warranty". TechCrunch.
  2. "How Panera Bread Fumbled Its Data Leak—And What to Learn From Its Mistakes". Fortune.
  3. Press, Gil. "141 Cybersecurity Predictions For 2020". Forbes.
  4. "Security startup Bugcrowd on crowdsourcing bug bounties: 'Cybersecurity is a people problem'". TechCrunch.
  5. "Super Tuesday prompts election security vigilance, government warning". SC Magazine. 3 March 2020.
  6. Sanger, David E.; Perlroth, Nicole (10 May 2020). "U.S. to Accuse China of Trying to Hack Vaccine Data, as Virus Redirects Cyberattacks". The New York Times.
  7. Fazzini, Kate (12 November 2019). "Iowa paid a security firm to break into a courthouse, then arrested employees when they succeeded". CNBC.
  8. Lakshmanan, Ravie (25 May 2020). "Pardon the Intrusion #18: Marcus Hutchins, the ransomware hero". The Next Web.
  9. "Communication, communication – and politics: Iowa saga of cuffed infosec pros reveals pentest pitfalls". The Register.
  10. "Bug Bounty Startup Raises $26 Million". Fortune.
  11. "Startmate picks its next big startup stars and looks to expand its scope". Australian Financial Review. 30 January 2017.
  12. Sussman, Bruce. "What Is the COVID-19 CTI League and Who Do They Protect in Cyberspace?". SecureWorld Expo.
  13. "Casey Ellis, Bugcrowd | RSA Conference 2019". Digital Anarchist Network.
  14. "Speakers – ShmooCon". ShmooCon.
  15. "How building a better hacker accidentally built a better defender - Casey Ellis Derbycon 2014 (Hacking Illustrated Series InfoSec Tutorial Videos)". Irongeek.com.
  16. "Casey Ellis | AusCERT2017". pastconferences.auscert.org.au.
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