Security News > 2020 > March > Crowdsourced pentesting is not without its issues

Is crowdsourced security really a panacea to the ills of traditional pentesting or does it create more issues? Before we tackle this let's cover what the issues of traditional pentesting actually are.

A tactical solution to this has been to "Cycle" pentesting suppliers each year but - the pentesting pool of talent being so small and specialized - I've witnessed companies ending up with the same pentester two years in a row, but now working for a different company!

Crowdsourced business models took aim at these issues by adopting a flexible approach to pentesting.

Despite what crowdsourced security companies say, crowdsourced pentesting is not cheap by any standard.

To get a crowdsourced test first you need a platform fee which is many times that - the fee to actually advertize your pentest on the various crowdsourced platforms.

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