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Bugcrowd Launches Reseller Partnership with SocialProof Security

Bugcrowd | June 27, 2022

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Bugcrowd, the market leader in crowdsourced cybersecurity, announced today a strategic reseller collaboration with SocialProof Security, advancing the organization's objective to keep clients ahead of growing cyber threats. As part of the cooperation, Bugcrowd will resell SocialProof Security's services, including social engineering prevention training, protocol and practitioner seminars, and penetration testing.

In addition to reselling social engineering services, Bugcrowd continues to innovate and invest in its award-winning Security Knowledge Platform, which provides the most comprehensive suite of security solutions such as bug bounty, vulnerability disclosure programs, attack surface management, and pen testing as a service. Bugcrowd, for example, allows consumers to buy pen tests from a single supplier for any sort of use case, from basic assurance of simple web apps and networks to continuous testing of cloud services and APIs, and now, social engineering.

Due to their friendly hacker approach to boosting customer defenses against human-based assaults, SocialProof Security and CEO Rachel Tobac, the market leader in social engineering prevention services, have gained prominence. Twitter, PayPal, Uber, Prudential Insurance, Cisco Systems, WhatsApp, NATO, and the US Air Force are among the noteworthy clients of SocialProof Security.

"We are excited to work with Bugcrowd on this reseller partnership as we move forward with our aligned mission to arm organizations with a proactive means to reduce social engineering risk through education, identity verification protocol improvements, technical tools, and measuring those updates with social engineering penetration testing. The majority of cyber attacks now start with some element of social engineering—manipulating people to take actions that could harm organizations. This partnership illustrates the priority Bugcrowd places on actionable and measurable social engineering risk mitigation in a well-rounded security program," said Tobac.

"Even with current elevated threat levels, many organizations are surprisingly unprepared for the threats from social engineering attacks, as we repeatedly find low awareness across organizations, outdated or inconsistent identity verification, and limited practitioner skill sets. Fortunately, taking a multidimensional approach that combines prevention training and tools, human-based protocol updates, and pen testing can dramatically reduce the risk of social engineering attacks. We look forward to bringing this innovative solution to market as a part of our services."

Ashish Gupta, CEO of Bugcrowd

SocialProof specializes in defending against social engineering attacks, in which attackers deceive workers in order to get personally identifiable information (PII), passwords, and unauthorized access to accounts, money, or other sensitive information. Common attack vectors like phishing, impersonation, and pretexting can be used to carry out such manipulation. In fact, respondents to ISACA's 2021 State of Cybersecurity Survey rated social engineering as the #1 cyber threat.

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Stellar Cyber Integrates with Netskope to Deliver World-Class User Context, Speeding Investigations and Improving Security Outcomes

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