Trey Ford has joined cybersecurity company Bugcrowd as chief information security officer for the Americas.
Ford comes to the role with over 25 years of experience in offensive and defensive security disciplines. He has held key leadership roles at Deepwatch, Vista Equity Partners, Salesforce, Black Hat, and more. Ford has also been a valued member of Bugcrowd’s advisory board for over a decade.
“I’ve always believed in taking a hands-on approach to building, breaking, and deconstructing security problems to first principles,” said Ford. “I intend to continue applying that same mindset here at Bugcrowd.”
“His leadership and offensive security expertise, coupled with his ability to help us connect with and support customers, will elevate the team’s capabilities to new heights,” said Bugcrowd CISO Nick McKenzie.
Bugcrowd also announced the availability of Bugcrowd Continuous Attack Surface Pentesting as a Service Subscription, a new way to consume pen testing. By using this subscription model, customers can enjoy the flexibility and predictability of pre-paid capacity on the Bugcrowd Platform to be drawn-down on demand.
In addition, Bugcrowd announced an additional growth capital facility of USD50 million from Silicon Valley Bank in October. The new financing will further scale Bugcrowd’s AI-powered platform globally, fund continued innovation into the Bugcrowd Platform, and leverage opportunities for strategic mergers and acquisitions, providing added value to clients, partners, and the hacker community.
“We are extremely excited by the rapid growth and market momentum that Bugcrowd has achieved so far this year,” said Bugcrowd CEO Dave Gerry. “We believe we are putting together the world’s strongest combination of people and technologies to deliver on the powerful insights provided by elite hackers operating on our global Platform.”
For over a decade, Bugcrowd’s unique skills-as-a-service approach has uncovered more high-impact vulnerabilities than traditional methods, along with a clearer return on investment, for more than 1,200 customers, including OpenAI, Google, T-Mobile, Carvana, the US Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, ExpressVPN, Rapyd, New Relic, and OpenSea.
The Bugcrowd Platform has evolved to address a changing attack surface influenced by the adoption of mobile infrastructure, hybrid work, APIs, crypto, cloud workloads, and AI. Bugcrowd’s crowdsourced solutions include penetration-testing-as-a-service, managed bug bounties, vulnerability disclosure programs, and AI safety and security products.
