Author: Alex Haynes

Alex Haynes is an independent security researcher with a background in Ethical Hacking. He is a former pentester and Top 10 ranked researcher on Bugcrowd and is credited for discovering vulnerabilities in products by Microsoft, AWS, IBM, Adobe, Pinterest and many more. Alex is a frequent contributor to Information security publications around the world and speaks regularly at conferences on the topics of offensive security, vulnerability management and crowdsourced security. He also runs the non-profit website Scrytap.com, a security awareness content repository for other security professionals. He is currently the CISO at IBS Software.

From the Winter 2021 Issue

Automated Pentesting – Can it Replace Humans?

Author(s):

Alex Haynes, CISO , IBS Software

Automated Pentesting

In the past few years, cybersecurity automation in many spheres of Cybersecurity increased dramatically. However, pentesting remains stubbornly immune to this. While crowdsourced security has evolved as an alternative to pentesting in the past 10 years, it’s not based on automation. Rather, the alternative simply throws more humans at a problem and in the process, … Read more

From the Spring 2018 Issue

Crowdsourced Security – An Alternative to Pentesting?

Author(s):

Alex Haynes, CISO , IBS Software

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Crowdsourced security programs have grown in popularity to the point where some enterprises have dispensed with traditional pentesting, using the crowdsourced model exclusively for auditing the security of their applications and infrastructure. What is Crowdsourced Security? Crowdsourced security methodologies invite a group of people (a crowd) to test an asset for vulnerabilities. The number of … Read more