2020 Inside The Mind Of A Hacker Report | What Does "Mindset Of A Hacker" Even Mean? | A Bugcrowd Story — Part 4 of 4 | With Katie Paxton-Fear And Casey Ellis

Humans are life-long learners — well, most of them anyway. Hackers are certainly the curious and "challenge accepted!" kind. In fact, learning as they go may even be considered a lifestyle. Instead of taking an exam at a university, they dive into a problem to solve, breaking things apart to see how they work and see how they can make them work better than they were originally designed/intended. Eventually, their exam papers become a bug submission via responsible disclosure. The reward? Not a degree, but a bounty. How cool is that?

But what is in a hacker's mind? Who wouldn't want to know?

In this final episode in the four-pack of conversations looking inside the mind of a hacker, we are joined by Katie Paxton-Fear, Lecturer in Cyber Security, The Manchester Metropolitan University, and Casey Ellis, Founder, Chairman, and CTO for Bugcrowd. Together we bring everything full circle to get the 360-view of what a hacker mindset really is; what does that even mean?

To really get the full picture, however, you must listen to the other three episodes:

EPISODE 1: With Joan Pepin, then-Chief Security Officer at Auth0, and Ashish Gupta, CEO and President at Bugcrowd | We talk about the business of crowdsourced security (You Can Build Out A Team But It Is Way Better To Turn To The Crowd)EPISODE 2: With Jasmin Landry, Sr. Application Security Advisor at Videotron and Grant McCracken, Senior Director, Program and Security Operations at Bugcrowd | We explore the geographics of hacking: what the researchers target and where they hack from (An International Hacker Community Comes Together To Root Out Technology Weaknesses)EPISODE 3: With Robin Marte, Ethical Hacker/Security Researcher at Bugcrowd, and Michael Skelton, Global Head of Security Operations and Researcher Enablement at Bugcrowd | We explore the demographics of hacking: what methods, experience, and collaboration mechanisms matter to the hacker community (There Will Always Be Hackers — We Just Need More)

And, finally, in this grand finale EPISODE 4, we discover how hackers learn, some of the skills and traits they are born with and later acquire, the value of diverse thinking from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and what being part of the hacker tribe means to the hackers (and to society).

What was once an elusive badge to gain — an exclusive tribe to be part of — has become both a world that welcomes new talent and a critical component of raising the security posture for so many organizations worldwide. The relationship between the hacker community continues to flourish. Through platforms like Bugcrowd and programs like disclose.io, the hacker community finds a safe and meaningful way to contribute to today's security tomorrow's safety in an increasingly-digital world.

But enough talking about it, let's get inside the mind of a hacker.

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Guests
Katie Paxton-Fear, Lecturer in Cyber Security, The Manchester Metropolitan University (@InsiderPhD on Twitter)

Casey Ellis, Founder/Chairman/CTO, @Bugcrowd (@caseyjohnellis on Twitter)

Resources
Learn more about Bugcrowd and their offering: https://itspm.ag/itspbgcweb

Download and read the complete 2020 edition of the Inside the Mind of a Hacker report by visiting https://itspm.ag/2BeLHUZ

Catch the full 4-part video/podcast series by visiting https://www.itspmagazine.com/their-stories/2020-inside-the-mind-of-a-hacker-report-unique-histories-shared-destiny-a-bugcrowd-story

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